New Six Sigma, The: A
Leader's Guide to Achieving Rapid Business Improvement and Sustainable Results
Matt Barney, Tom McCarty
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Summary
The New Six Sigma shows how to transform Six Sigma to address today's most crucial
business challenges: the challenge to execute and the challenge to maximize value.
Discover how Six Sigma's inventors at Motorola have extended its benefits beyond defect
reduction to the entire enterprise. Learn the key lessons of first-generation Six Sigma,
and master every element of the New Six Sigma: Alignment, Mobilization, Acceleration, and
Governance. Then take your results to the next level with ideas from the future of Six
Sigma. An essential resource for every leader, quality expert, and Six Sigma Black Belt.
Six Sigma
transformed-Motorola's breakthrough approach to maximizing business value
Six Sigma has come a long way
since Motorola invented it as a breakthrough approach to reducing product defects. Now
Motorola has thoroughly revamped Six Sigma to reflect today's core business challenges:
the challenge to execute and the challenge to maximize value. In this book, leaders of
Motorola Six Sigma offer the first comprehensive guide to the New Six Sigma-and show how
to use it for sustainable competitive advantage.
Six Sigma and shareholder
value: key lessons from first-generation Six Sigma
The four elements of the New
Six Sigma: Align, Mobilize, Accelerate, and Govern
A step-by-step approach to
New Six Sigma implementation and management
Understanding the leadership
governance enhancements that are key to success
Refocusing Six Sigma tools on
innovation and strategic business improvement
Global case studies
demonstrate the effectiveness of the New Six Sigma
Tomorrow's Six Sigma: new
innovations in financial accounting, customer needs assessment, and asset management
The future of the Six Sigma
Black Belt
The original Six Sigma
transformed the business world. The New Six Sigma will have an even more powerful impact.
Discover these techniques today-and start reaping the results tomorrow
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
MATT BARNEY, Ph.D., |
Motorola's director of I Six
Sigma Business Improvement, is responsible for integrating ideas from | Finance,
Engineering, Strategy, Statistics, IT, and Psychology to maximize organizational
effectiveness. A columnist for The Industrial-Organizational Psychologist, he has
extensive experience with business improvement at Motorola, Intel, AT&T, and Lucent.
TOMMcCARTY,
Vice-president of Consulting
and Training Services at Motorola University, is responsible for improving the business
performance of Motorola's suppliers, partners, and customers through consulting on
performance, process, and continuousimprovement.
104 pages