Quality: Business & Leadership: Quality

The fast and easy way to understand and implement Six Sigma.

Lean, green supply chain management combines the efficiency that lean technologies deliver with the environmental and cost benefits of sustainability. The Lean Sustainable Supply Chain illuminates the business benefits of combining "lean" and "green," and offers start-to-finish guidance for redesigning company infrastructure and technologies to achieve these benefits.

In this eminently useful, clear-eyed book, the authors critically review dozens of well-known management tools--from mission statements, balanced scorecards, and rolling forecasts to key performance indicators, Six Sigma, and performance appraisals. They explain how to select the right tools for your organization, how to implement them correctly, and how to extract maximum value from each.

Written in a step-by-step format, this practical guide covers the fundamental methods and tools of Lean Six Sigma. You'll get details on reducing defects and deviation, sustaining improvements, and achieving laser-focused process innovations.

A roadmap to achieving breakthroughs in speed, efficiency, and customer value for any firm engaged in new product development.

Provides managers with the right metrics for evaluating important aspects of performance that are not accurately tracked by most companies and government organizations.

Simple and comprehensive resource for understanding the nation's leading business performance award.

Blazey, an independent consultant for organizational training and high-performance systems development, uses simple and concise language to describe actionable items such as organizational profiles, leadership, strategic planning, customer focus, knowledge management, workforce focus and process management. Results are also listed for product, customer-focused, financial and leadership outcomes.