Six Sigma For Business Leaders: A Guide To Implementation - Softcover

Gregory H. Watson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1576810496 ISBN 13: 9781576810491

Publisher: Goal/QPC, 2004

Synopsis

An easy-read summary of the best practices associated with the Six Sigma approach; as Greg Watson puts them into a context for senior management to use as a guideline for implementing Six Sigma in their companies.
It is intended to support leadership teams as they design their Six Sigma initiative and manage the execution of Six Sigma through aligning it with their business strategy. This book supports executive- and champion-level Six Sigma training for business leaders and process owners.
This practical text, answers fifty questions that an organization must address to initiate, develop, and sustain a successful Six Sigma deployment. Some sample chapter titles are:
- What does an executive sponsor do?
- How can Six Sigma improve financial value?
- Why is a formal project charter important?
- What is the DMAIC problem-solving process?
- How does the Improve step of DMAIC work?

Winner of the ASQ - Philip B. Crosy Medal. Author and Philosopher of the Global Quality Community

A unique feature of the book is that it provides answers to fifty of the most frequently asked questions from managers about the implementation and management of Six Sigma programs. These questions are derived from the experiences I encountered as a consultant to over twenty-five Six Sigma program deployments in a variety of organizations.

About this title

About the Author

Greg Watson is Past-President and Fellow of the American Society for Quality.
A professional industrial engineer, Greg is an expert in quality sciences, applied statistics, reliability engineering, production operations, and business management.
Greg offers Six Sigma training for Black Belts and Master Black Belts through the Center for Excellence of Finland.
He volunteers his time to global professional communities of industrial engineering quality, and statistics. His hobbies are writing and encouraging developing nations to establish a national quality competence.
He lives with his family in Helsinki, Finland, but the World is his workplace.
GOAL/QPC

Since 1995 GOAL/QPC has been a leader in the world of Quality Management. GOAL/QPC's concisely written pocket guides, known as Memory Joggers, enable people at all organizational levels to learn and apply tools, methods and processes that are critically needed to attain world-class organizational excellence. With over 12M copies in circulation, our customers value our Memory Joggers as stand-alone learning resources or for use in a training environment. Made popular with our trademark format of "What is it, What does it do, How do I do it?" , published in a pocket sized spiral binding, users can quickly find and acquire knowledge and insight from the leading edge book content.

From the Inside Flap

Like all GOAL/QPC books, Six Sigma for Business Leaders is a practical text. It is intended to support leadership teams as they design their Six Sigma initiative and manage the execution of Six Sigma through aligning it with their business strategy. This book supports executive- and champion-level Six sigma training for business leaders and process owners.We believe that the insights contained in this book, which have been gathered from many sources, create a valuable resource for helping business leaders implement a successful Six Sigma initiative in their organization. We trust that you will agree.

Edition details

• Publisher: Goal/QPC
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1576810496
• ISBN 13: 9781576810491
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Janet MacCausland
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 232
• Editor: Cathy Kingery