Rath & Strong's Six Sigma Leadership Handbook

Rath & Strong's Six Sigma Leadership Handbook
Author: Rath & Strong
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 598
Release: 2003-02-21
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780471251248

Achieve unparalleled customer satisfaction and greater profitability with this essential handbook! Six Sigma is a proven and highly effective business initiative for improving customer satisfaction and increasing the efficiency of processes. Rath & Strong's Six Sigma Leadership Handbook highlights the critical factors that make or break implementation, offers key best practices for getting it right the first time, and offers real-life examples and case studies that light the path to success. With Rath & Strong, you'll get an overview of the tools, methods, approaches, benefits, and risks that are associated with each element of the methodology.

Emerging Frontiers in Industrial and Systems Engineering

Emerging Frontiers in Industrial and Systems Engineering
Author: Harriet B. Nembhard
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2019-06-13
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0429947704

Success is driven through collaboration. The field of Industrial and Systems Engineering has evolved as a major engineering field with interdisciplinary strength drawn from effective utilization, process improvement, optimization, design, and management of complex systems. It is a broad discipline that is important to nearly every attempt to solve problems facing the needs of society and the welfare of humanity. In order to carry this forward, successful collaborations are needed between industry, government, and academia. This book brings together an international group of distinguished practitioners and academics in manufacturing, healthcare, logistics, and energy sectors to examine what enables successful collaborations. The book is divided into two key parts: 1) partnerships, frameworks, and leadership; and 2) engineering applications and case studies. Part I highlights some of the ways partnerships emerge between those seeking to innovate and educate in industrial and systems engineering, some useful frameworks and methodologies, as well as some of the ideas and practices that undergird leadership in the profession. Part II provides case studies and applications to illustrate the power of the partnerships between academia and practice in industrial and systems engineering. Features Examines the success from multiple industries Provides frameworks for building teams and avoiding pitfalls Contains international perspectives of success Uses collaborative approaches from industry, government, and academia Includes real world case studies illustrating the enabling factors Offers engineering education and student-centric takeaways

Lean Manufacturing in the Developing World

Lean Manufacturing in the Developing World
Author: Jorge Luis GarcĂ­a-Alcaraz
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 582
Release: 2014-03-27
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3319049518

This book presents some definitions and concepts applied in Latin America on lean manufacturing (LM), the LM tools most widely used and human and cultural aspects that most matter in this field. The book contains a total of 14 tools used and reported by authors from different countries in Latin America, with definition, timeline with related research, benefits that have been reported in literature and case studies implemented in Latin American companies. Finally, the book presents a list of softwares available to facilitate the tools' implementation, monitoring and improvement.

Rath and Strong's Integrated Lean Six Sigma Road Map

Rath and Strong's Integrated Lean Six Sigma Road Map
Author: Rath & Strong, Incorporated
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2005-02-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9780974632827

Rath & Strong's Integrated Lean Six Sigma Road Map takes you step by step in developing your Project Plan and shows you how to use Six Sigma tools to Eliminate Variation and Lean tools to Create Flow. This road map for Integrated Lean Six Sigma is ideal for both Manufacturing and Service industries. Black Belt, Green Belt, Sponsors, Champions, Stakeholders, Team Members - ALL Find this Road Map an invaluable resource for Lean Six Sigma methods, tools, techniques - and Milestones for each step of the Integrated Lean Six Sigma process.

Strengths Based Leadership

Strengths Based Leadership
Author: Tom Rath
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2008
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1595620257

From the authors of the bestselling "StrengthsFinder 2.0" comes a landmark study of great leaders, teams, and the reasons why people follow them.