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Best practices in lean six sigma process improvement a deeper look

Summary: "Why are some companies highly successful with their lean Six Sigma performance management initiatives, while most are not? This title shows readers how to get process improvement going, and keep it going for many years. It provides readers with benchmarks and best practice models."--Ebook Library.

Record details

ISBN: 0470168862 (cloth)
ISBN: 9780470168868 (cloth)
ISBN: 0470223758 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9780470223758 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 290 p.) : ill.
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Publisher: Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, c2008.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Magnitude advances in competitive standards and technologies -- Global leanness : an unstable phenomenon -- Big question : does lean beget financial success? -- Ultimate trend : improving the rate of improvement -- Waste elimination, kaizen, and continuous improvement : misdefined, misunderstood -- The metrics trap -- The case against (much of) management goal setting -- Fortress by culture -- Vengeful numbers -- Process improvement : stretching company capabilities -- Unique business models (big ideas) --Does rapid growth put the brakes on lean? -- Losing their way--or not -- Global lean champions : passing the torch -- How overweight companies get lean -- Flow-through facilities -- External linkages -- Leanness rankings for thirty-three industrial sectors -- Electronics : a metamorphosis -- Motor-vehicle industry : earliest but lagging -- Aerospace-defense : OEMs are soaring; suppliers are not -- Other industries.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.