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Six Sigma Beyond the Factory Floor: Deployment Strategies for Financial Services, Health Care, and the Rest of the Real Economy
- By Ron D. Snee, Roger Hoerl
- Published Oct 22, 2004 by FT Press.
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Description
- Copyright 2005
- Edition: 1st
- Book
- ISBN-10: 0-13-143988-X
- ISBN-13: 978-0-13-143988-7
Nonmanufacturing organizations are rapidly discovering Six Sigma's immense potential to reduce costs, improve performance, grow revenue, strengthen focus, and empower people. To achieve these results in your organization, start right here.
Ronald D. Snee and Roger W. Hoerl cover every level of Six Sigma implementation in nonmanufacturing environments: deployment planning and strategy, project execution, methods, statistical tools, and more. Throughout, they illuminate key concepts with case studies from a wide range of businesses and functions. Drawing on their unsurpassed consulting experience, they systematically identify hurdles to success—and best practices for overcoming them.
Whatever your Six Sigma goals, this book will help you achieve them faster—with less pain, cost, or risk.
- Using a proven Six Sigma deployment roadmap for nonmanufacturing organizations
- Planning strategies, execution tactics, customized methods and tools
- Leveraging the immense value of Six Sigma in your environment
- Realistically assessing the benefits of Six Sigma in nonmanufacturing organizations
- Driving ongoing success: lessons from real-world case studies
- Best practices for driving project-by-project improvement
- Aligning the entire organization behind Six Sigma
- From leadership commitment to team building—and beyond
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Table of Contents
Preface.
I. THE CASE FOR SIX SIGMA BEYOND THE FACTORY FLOOR.
1. A Holistic View of Six Sigma.
The Impact of Six Sigma Beyond the Factory Floor.
Intangible Impact.
Integration of Process Design, Process Improvement, and Process Control.
The Essence of Six Sigma.
Deployment Aspects.
Improvement Projects.
Six Sigma Methods and Tools.
Roles of Six Sigma Leaders.
The Rest of the Story.
Summary.
References.
2. Addressing the Fundamental Barrier: "We’re Different!"
Why Six Sigma Hasn't Been Deployed Holistically.
Some Potential Root Causes.
The Fundamental Barrier.
What’s Different?
Conceptual Differences.
Technical Differences.
What’s Similar?
What Is Process Thinking?
Summary.
References.
II. ENSURING SUCCESSFUL DEPLOYMENT.
3. Deployment Case Studies.
The Bank of America Story.
Deployment Strategy.
Next Steps.
Commonwealth Health Corporation.
Getting Started.
Deployment Strategy and Initial Results.
Expansion of the Effort and Current Status.
Motorola Finance.
Deployment Within the Audit Staff.
Broader Deployment Within Finance.
GE Research and Development.
Corporate Research Gets Into the Act.
A Strategy Takes Form.
Design for Six Sigma.
Some Unique Challenges.
Key Deployment Lessons Learned.
Summary.
References.
4. A Proven Deployment Road Map.
Keys to Success.
Committed and Involved Leadership.
Top Talent.
Supporting Infrastructure.
Road Map for Leading Six Sigma.
Launching the Initiative.
Managing the Effort.
Sustaining Momentum and Growing.
The Way We Work.
Tailoring the Road Map for Your Organization.
Deployment Plan Elements.
Strategy and Goals.
Process Performance Measures.
Project Selection Criteria.
Project Identification and Prioritization System.
Deployment Processes for Leaders.
Roles of Leadership and Others.
Curricula and Training System.
Project and Six Sigma Initiative Review Schedule.
Project Reporting and Tracking System.
Audit System for Previously Closed Projects.
Reward and Recognition Plan.
Communication Plan.
Application to Specific Businesses and Functions.
Specific Business Application Areas.
Specific Functions.
Pitfalls to Avoid.
“Begin with the End in Mind”–Take a Systems View.
Summary.
References.
III. ENSURING PROJECT SUCCESS.
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