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A business initiative first espoused by Motorola in the early 1990s, the Six Sigma strategy has become a standard statistical technique for quality improvement. Breyfogle, founder and president of a quality consulting firm, explains the implementation of Six Sigma. The text is divided into five sections centered on using his "Smarter Six Sigma Solutions"deployment, measurement, analysis, improvement, and controland includes examples that describe the mechanics of implementation as well as application possibilities. -- Copyright © 1999 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR All rights reserved


Review
"An excellent reference book that should be on every individual involved in Six Sigma or even just quality assurance/quality improvement." (TQM Magazine)

"...a useful guide for both academia and organizations...useful source of reference for researchers...an excellent reference book..." (The TQM Magazine, Vol 15(6) 2003)


Review
"An excellent reference book that should be on every individual involved in Six Sigma or even just quality assurance/quality improvement." (TQM Magazine)

"...a useful guide for both academia and organizations...useful source of reference for researchers...an excellent reference book..." (The TQM Magazine, Vol 15(6) 2003)


Book Description
* Includes new and expanded coverage of Six Sigma infrastructure building and benchmarking.
* Provides plans, checklists, metrics, and pitfalls.


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This new and significantly revised edition of Implementing Six Sigma goes well beyond traditional Six Sigma methodologies, introducing an enhanced roadmap- S4/IEE (Smarter Six Sigma Solutionssm/Integrated Enterprise Excellence). This cutting-edge approach offers a solution to the common problem of sustaining Six Sigma activities and downplays the traditional policy stating that Six Sigma projects must have a defined defect. A variety of plans, checklists, metrics, and warnings of potential pitfalls provide thorough preparation for anyone implementing Six Sigma strategies. With new coverage of Six Sigma infrastructure building, benchmarking, and real-world" lessons learned, " this Second Edition is the best available tool for implementing these powerful, profit-building strategies.


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"No other book covers–at an adequate technical level–as many topics important to Six Sigma. An indispensable reference for the Six Sigma practitioner." —Ramon V. Leon Associate Professor, Statistics Department of the University of Tennessee Associate editor, Six Sigma Forum magazine "Breyfogle’s book should be valuable to every Six Sigma professional." —Bill Scherkenback Director, Samsung Quality Team "The seamless integration of statistical methodologies . . . helps organizations execute their strategic plans and track both short- and longer-term strategic progress within their various departments and overall organizations." —Donald C. Fisher, PhD Executive Director, MSQPC–The Quality Center "Implementing Six Sigma provides the most up-to-date material on the topic, complete with a project infrastructure roadmap and hundreds of real-life examples and exercises." —Frank Shines Project Manager, Pilgrim Software This new and significantly revised edition of Implementing Six Sigma goes well beyond traditional Six Sigma methodologies, introducing an enhanced roadmap–S4/IEE (Smarter Six Sigma Solutionssm/Integrated Enterprise Excellence). This cutting-edge approach offers a solution to the common problem of sustaining Six Sigma activities and downplays the traditional policy stating that Six Sigma projects must have a defined defect. A variety of plans, checklists, metrics, and warnings of potential pitfalls provide thorough preparation for anyone implementing Six Sigma strategies. With new coverage of Six Sigma infrastructure building, benchmarking, and real-world "lessons learned," this Second Edition is the best available tool for implementing these powerful, profit-building strategies.


About the Author
FORREST W. BREYFOGLE III is the founder and President of Smarter Solutions, Inc., a company specializing in training and consulting in Six Sigma methodologies. He is the author of Statistical Methods for Testing, Development, and Manufacturing and Implementing Six Sigma and coauthor of Managing Six Sigma, all published by Wiley.

FROM OUR EDITORS

The Barnes & Noble Review
If you are involved in achieving bottom-line benefits and improved customer relationships for your organization, you don't want to miss this second edition of Implementing Six Sigma. This edition of the book takes the reader well beyond the traditional Six Sigma approach (consisting of six levels: knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation) with an enhanced version that integrates other performance improvement techniques. Forrest W. Breyfogle calls this new approach Smarter Six Sigma Solutions (S4) Integrated Enterprise Excellence (IEE) or S4/IEE.

The book is divided into eight parts that cover S4/IEE, including measurement, analysis, implementation, control, integration, and management. For example, Part I describes the deployment of the S4/IEE implementation with a knowledge-centered activity (KCA) focus and the benefits. Parts II to V describe the measure-analyze-improve-control phases of define-measure-analyze-improve-control (DMAIC). Finally, parts VI to VIII describe other aspects for a successful S4/IEE implementation. Furthermore, this book is extremely thorough and well written, including an excellent set of exercises all along the way that provide a means of transforming information into virtual practical experience. John Vacca

John Vacca, the former computer security official (CSO) for NASA's space station program (Freedom), has written 38 books about advanced storage, computer security, and aerospace technology.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

This new and significantly revised edition of Implementing Six Sigma goes well beyond traditional Six Sigma methodologies, introducing an enhanced roadmap–S4/IEE (Smarter Six Sigma Solutionssm/Integrated Enterprise Excellence). This cutting-edge approach offers a solution to the common problem of sustaining Six Sigma activities and downplays the traditional policy stating that Six Sigma projects must have a defined defect. A variety of plans, checklists, metrics, and warnings of potential pitfalls provide thorough preparation for anyone implementing Six Sigma strategies.

With new coverage of Six Sigma infrastructure building, benchmarking, and real-world "lessons learned," this Second Edition is the best available tool for implementing these

powerful, profit-building strategies.

Author Biography: Forrest W. Breyfogle III is the founder and President of Smarter Solutions, Inc., a company specializing in training and consulting in Six Sigma methodologies. He is the author of Statistical Methods for Testing, Development, and Manufacturing and Implementing Six Sigma and coauthor of Managing Six Sigma, all published by Wiley.

FROM THE CRITICS

- Ramon V. Leon Associate Professor, Statistics Department of the University of Tennessee Associate editor, Six Sigma Forum magazine

"No other book covers-at an adequate technical level-as many topics important to Six Sigma. An indispensable reference for the Six Sigma practitioner."

Publisher - Frank Shines Project Manager, Pilgrim Software

"Implementing Six Sigma provides the most up-to-date material on the topic, complete with a project infrastructure roadmap and hundreds of real-life examples and exercises."

Booknews - John Wiley & Sons Publishing

A business initiative first espoused by Motorola in the early 1990s, the Six Sigma strategy has become a standard statistical technique for quality improvement. Breyfogle, founder and president of a quality consulting firm, explains the implementation of Six Sigma. The text is divided into five sections centered on using his "Smarter Six Sigma Solutions" -- deployment, measurement, analysis, improvement, and control -- and includes examples that describe the mechanics of implementation as well as application possibilities. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

"I have seen many Six Sigma approaches, but Breyfogle's Implementing Six Sigma is the most comprehensive of them all." --Frank Shines, Principal, IBM Global Services, Measurement Methods Consulting

"The key to business success is doing the right thing faster and better and more efficiently than your competition. The Six Sigma approach aims at achieving this and Forrest Breyfogle has written the most systematic and comprehensive manual available on the subject." --Paul Tobias, Manager, Statistical Methods Group, SEMATECH

"[This book] illustrates how most organizations can become more competitive, reduce defect levels, and improve cycle times. It consolidates not only the traditional Six Sigma process measurements and improvement tools, but also many other useful methodologies into one easy-to-understand text." --Bill Wiggenhorn, Senior Vice President of Motorola Training and Education; President, Motorola University

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING

The seamless integration of statistical methodologies . . . helps organizations execute their strategic plans and track both short- and longer-term strategic progress within their various departments and overall organizations.—-Donald C. Fisher, PhD Executive Director, MSQPC-The Quality Center — Donald C. Fisher

Implementing Six Sigma provides the most up-to-date material on the topic, complete with a project infrastructure roadmap and hundreds of real-life examples and exercises. — Frank Shines Project Manager, Pilgrim Software

No other book covers-at an adequate technical level-as many topics important to Six Sigma. An indispensable reference for the Six Sigma practitioner. — Ramon V. Leon Associate Professor, Statistics Department of the University of Tennessee Associate editor, Six Sigma Forum magazine

Breyfogle's book should be valuable to every Six Sigma professional.—Bill Scherkenback Director, Samsung Quality Team  — Bill Scherkenback

AUTHOR DESCRIPTION

Forrest W. Breyfogle III is founder and President of Smarter Solutions, a company specializing in training and consulting in Six Sigma methodologies. He is the author of Statistical Methods for Testing, Development, and Manufacturing (Wiley) and his articles have been published in Quality Engineering, Quality and Reliability Engineering International, and other publications.

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