Six Sigma For
Dummies
Six Sigma for
Dummies is the only user-friendly beginner’s guide to Six Sigma. Six
Sigma is the most common—and perhaps least understood—methodology
for streamlining processes in manufacturing, service delivery,
management, and almost any other business activity. For business
leaders seeking increased efficiency and customer service, Six Sigma
is the key.
Six Sigma for
Dummies is written specifically for Six Sigma beginners—whether
they’re small business owners who want to implement Six Sigma, or
professionals and students who need to get up to speed fast—Six
Sigma For Dummies is the most straightforward, non-intimidating
guide on the market. Hundreds of thousands of professionals work in
Six Sigma companies such as GE, Sony, Toshiba, Microsoft, and Nokia,
but have a hard time fully understanding the methodology. Six Sigma
for Dummies is simple, friendly guide makes Six Sigma make sense.
Six Sigma for
Dummies is intended to help readers implement Six Sigma in their
small and medium-sized businesses to improve quality and reduce
costs, this no-nonsense guide explains:
- What Six
Sigma is
- What Six
Sigma’s goals and objectives are
- The benefits
of Six Sigma in both large and small businesses
- How the belt
system works
- The DMAIC
approach
- How to
implement Six Sigma
- How to use
Six Sigma tools
- How Six
Sigma’s approach aims for
zero-defects
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Six Sigma Basic Training Kit: Implementing Juran's 6-Step Quality
Improvement Process and Six Sigma Tools by The Juran Institute,
Juran Institute.
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This text aims
to provide everything a facilitator or trainer needs to lead a
quality improvement team through J. Juran's six-step quality
improvement process, including lesson plans, facilitator notes,
training schedule, discussion questions, exercises, case studies and
overhead masters.
The Six Sigma
Basic Training Kit, complete with facilitator notes, learning
exercises, case studies, and more, is a series of training modules
for any company that is implementing Six Sigma. It provides
everything a trainer needs to take a quality improvement team
through the Six Sigma process step by step, from appreciating
quality to creating and executing a quality-improvement plan.
Classic, simple
processes developed by the world-famous Juran Institute have been
turned into easy training modules on how to:
- Identify
business processes needing improvement
- Work as a
team on the solution
- Track time
and cost savings that result from the new process, and
more
