Six Sigma: The Breakthrough Management Strategy Revolutionizing the World's Top Corporations
Mikel Harry Ph.D.; Richard Schroeder
Idioma: inglés
Editorial: Crown Business, 2006
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- Título
- Six Sigma: The Breakthrough Management Strategy Revolutionizing the World's Top Corporations
- Autor
- Mikel Harry Ph.D.; Richard Schroeder
- Editorial
- Crown Business
- Año de publicación
- 2006
- Estado
- Fine
- Encuadernación
- Soft cover
- Idioma
- inglés
- ISBN 10
- 0385494386
- ISBN 13
- 9780385494380
Six Sigma is the most powerful breakthrough management tool ever devised, promising increased market share, cost reductions, and dramatic improvements in bottom-line profitability for companies of any size. The darling of Wall Street, it has become the mantra of Fortune 500 boardrooms around the world because it works.
What is Six Sigma? It is first and foremost a business process that enables companies to increase profits dramatically by streamlining operations, improving quality, and eliminating defects or mistakes in everything a company does, from filling out purchase orders to manufacturing airplane engines. While traditional quality programs have focused on detecting and correcting defects, Six Sigma encompasses something broader: It provides specific methods to re-create the process itself so that defects are never produced in the first place.
Most companies operate at a three- to four-sigma level, where the cost of defects is roughly 20 to 30 percent of revenues. By approaching Six Sigma--fewer than one defect per 3.4 million opportunities--the cost of quality drops to less than 1 percent of sales.
This is because the highest quality also results in the lowest costs. When GE reduced its costs from 20 percent to less than 10 percent, it saved a billion dollars in just two years--money that goes directly to the bottom line. This is the reason Wall Street and corporations as diverse as Sony, Ford, Nokia, Texas Instruments, Canon, Hitachi, Lockheed Martin, American Express, Toshiba, DuPont, and Polaroid have embarked on corporate-wide Six Sigma programs.
Six Sigma should be of paramount importance to every forward-thinking executive and manager determined to make their company world-class in their industry.
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Richard Schroeder is president of the Six Sigma Academy. A former vice president at Motorola, he joined Mikel Harry in creating the academy. Today, Mikel Harry and Richard Schroeder implement Six Sigma programs at major corporations throughout the world. In 1998, corporate consulting contracts from their Six Sigma training topped $100 million.
They live in Scottsdale, Arizona.
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