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This informational guide will is an excellent read for those ready to jolt their team out of the everyday work routine, and get them shaken up and working together! With examples, testimonials, and explanations, your team can come together as one to make your workplace a trusting, and productive environment.
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As customers or consumers, we expect quality products and quality services, getting value for our money. For producers or service providers, it is a challenge to satisfy customers and also take care of other stakeholders. In the last few decades we have seen several quality models and frameworks. Organizations see another challenge in implementing those frameworks effectively. Three basic parameters of quality are products (technology), processes...
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Berrett-Koehler Publishers
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[2004]
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English
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Six Sigma is a collection of ideas and tools that many organizations are using as part of their efforts to improve the quality of their products and services. Six Sigma for Project Managers explores the concepts that project managers need to know to make six sigma work for their organizations.
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Atlantic Publishing Group Inc
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2009.
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English
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Six Sigma is a set of practices used to systematically improve processes by eliminating defects, which is any nonconformity of a product or service to its specification. To be Six Sigma compliant, a company must produce no more than 3.4 defects per one million products. If this can be achieved, a company has the potential to save billions of dollars, just as Motorola did. The global communications company reported over $17 billion in savings as of...
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A comprehensive guide for Quality Management Principles Quality Management Systems (QMS) is a globally recognized standard to manage systems, processes, and resources, effectively and efficiently. Incorporating the Seven Principles of Quality Management is essential to drive the leadership, culture, and achieve business excellence. This book draws bodies of knowledge of management methodologies, principles, business models, frameworks, and case studies...
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Measure and improve your company's performance
This book is a practical and accessible guide to understanding and implementing benchmarking, providing you with the essential information and saving time.
In 50 minutes you will be able to:
• Understand the different types of benchmarking and choose the best one for your company
• Catch up with the competition by comparing their processes to your own and identifying the best practices
• Use...
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The Right Phrase for the Right Situation-Every Time
You've taken the GMAT, your transcript is in order, and you're ready to apply to business schools. Your personal statement and the interview are your major opportunity to distinguish yourself from the pack and demonstrate your full potential. Perfect Phrases for Business School Acceptance gives you the phrases, statements, and approaches that will help you write a compelling essay, succeed at the...
10) Kaizen
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Understanding Kaizen, knowing when to use Kaizen, and performing end to end Kaizen project has never been easier!
Have you ever wanted to perform Kaizen project, exercise, or event on your company's processes?
Have you ever wanted to perform Kaizen project, exercise, or event on your customer's processes?
Have you ever wanted to identify wastes, achieve cost savings, cost reductions, and cost leadership in your company?
If the anwer to any of these...
11) Agile Project Management: Learn the Most Important Concepts and Tools of Agile Project Management
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Learn the most important concepts and tools for Agile project management.
Things you will learn: Learn the fundamentals of Agile project management. Learn how to use Agile for the right projects. You will learn the key concepts of Agile development, Agile project delivery, and Agile project management. You will understand the differences between Agile and traditional project delivery (other methodologies) Understand the impact that Agile and Lean...
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This book provides a fundamental introduction to the concepts of lean enterprise and Six Sigma to executives, personnel new to quality, or organizations interested in introductory information on quality and process improvement. It is intended to be a helpful guide on implementing and optimizing an integrated Lean Six Sigma approach focused on realizing return value and bottom line impact. The principles of Lean and Six Sigma are introduced and discussed...
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You've been trained and tested and you've been successful. Now, where will you take it from here?
This book is intended for the Green Belt or anybody who has attended Six Sigma training and has been coached through a complete project, and who now wants to or needs to step out on their own and manage improvement projects without a dedicated coach.
For a Green Belt, it is probable that the first project was coached by another Six Sigma practitioner,...
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Change can be hard. It is often difficult to conceive performing tasks in a different order, in a different place, at a different time, or in a different manner altogether. And this is only for the individual. When we talk about organizational change the difficulty increases exponentially with each individual that is added to the equation.
This book uses as its basis a fable — the story is not untrue, but it is not fact either. It is a story in...
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Understanding value streams, mapping current and future state value streams, and performing end to end value stream mapping exercise has never been easier!
Have you ever wanted to perform value stream mapping exercise on your company's processes?
Have you ever wanted to perform value stream mapping exercise on your customer's processes?
Have you ever wanted to identify wastes, achieve cost savings, cost reductions, and cost leadership in your company?
If...
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Is your organization's level of innovation where you think it should be today?
Now is the time to shape your future through innovation management. This book provides a wealth of information, tools, techniques, models, approaches, and methodologies that are all specifically designed for excellence in innovation, solution generation, and execution.
Within these pages you will find innovation concepts, methods, and case studies that build upon the...
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This guide is intended to help everyone in an organization participate in creating and sustaining a foundation of integrity, meet requirements and customer expectations, and support robust processes, to the advantage of everyone in the organization and to each of its customers.
It provides a simplified explanation of the clauses of ISO 9001:2015, including+G429:G439:
What's required
Why to do it
Implementation tips
Questions to ask to assess conformity
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¿Su negocio o la empresa en la que labora se ha enfrentado a problemas tales como: retrasos en las entregas de producto, errores en los procesos de producción, accidentes y áreas de trabajo sucias y desorganizadas? ¿Sabía que el secreto de tener un negocio productivo está en la limpieza y el orden con que se trabaje?
El proceso de las 5's en acción. La metodología japonesa para mejorar la calidad y la productividad de cualquier tipo de empresa,...
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The true qualities of leadership
In many leadership books, the lessons have come from overseas studies and examples. From a New Zealand point of view it is easy to find concurring examples in our own industry. This has led to an interesting question. Where do we differ? The answer is simple—our culture.
Our culture is influenced by the large number of different races that make up our work force. New Zealand has an abundance of Polynesian employees...
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This guide is intended to help everyone in a service organization participate in creating and sustaining a foundation of integrity, meet requirements and customer expectations, and support robust processes, to the advantage of everyone in the organization and to each of its customers.
It provides a simplified explanation of the clauses of ISO 9001:2015, including:
What's required
Why to do it
Implementation tips
Questions to ask to assess conformity
Also...
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