Best Practices in Lean Six Sigma Process Improvement by Richard J Schonberger

Best Practices in Lean Six Sigma Process Improvement by Richard J Schonberger

Best Practices in Lean Six Sigma Process Improvement reveals how to refocus lean/six sigma processes on what author Richard Schonberger—world-renowned process improvement pioneer—calls "the Golden Goals": better quality, quicker response, greater flexibility, and higher value. This manual shows you how it can be done, employing success stories of over 100 companies including Apple, Illinois Tool Works, Dell, Inc., and Wal-Mart, all of which have established themselves as the new, global "Kings of Lean," surpassing even Toyota in long-term improvement.

Pitfalls and opportunities are explained in straightforward terms that help managers to steer process improvement efforts towards sustained advantageSchonberger reveals how to refocus lean and Six Sigma processes on what he calls the 'golden goals': better quality, quicker response, greater flexibility and higher value. ( Worksmanagement.co.uk , August 2008) This book makes the case that lean won't work without quality, and to that end the author focuses on the companies that have achieved the world's longest, steepest rates of improvement in leanness companies like Dell, Wall-Mart. The book poses a curious semantical analysis of the term supply chain management suggesting that the emphasis on the word supply implies that it is the customers' job to manage and improve relations with their suppliers. ( IndustryWeek.com , July 2008)

Richard Schonberger is President of Schonberger & Associates, Inc., providing lectures, seminars, and advisory services to industrial and business organizations worldwide. Originator of the term and concepts of world-class manufacturing, he is author of numerous books, as well as some 150 articles in periodicals ranging from Harvard Business Review and the Wall Street Journal to Quality Progress and the Journal of Cost Management. He has been awarded the Shingo Prize for Excellence in Manufacturing and the British Institution of Production Engineers' International Award in Manufacturing Management, and has received the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE)'s Production and Inventory Control Award.

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ISBN 13	9780470168868
ISBN 10	0470168862
Title	Best Practices in Lean Six Sigma Process Improvement
Author	Richard J Schonberger
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Year published	2007-12-28
Number of pages	304
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