Best practices in lean six sigma process improvement
β Scribed by Richard Schonberger
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Content: Preface. Part I. Hypercompetition. Chapter 1. Magnitude Advances In Competitive Standards And Technologies. Chapter 2. Global Leanness -- An Unstable Phenomenon. Chapter 3. Big Question: Does Lean Beget Financial Success? (A Short Chapter). Chapter 4. Ultimate Trend: Improving The Rate Of Improvement. Part II. Improvement Gone Wrong -- And Made Right. Chapter 5. Waste Elimination, Kaizen, And Continuous Improvement: Mis-Defined And Misunderstood. Chapter 6. The Metrics Trap. Chapter 7. The Case Against (Much Of) Management Goal-Setting. Part III. A Competitive Fortress. Chapter 8. Fortress By Culture. Chapter 9. Vengeful Numbers. Chapter 10. Process Improvement: Stretching Company Capabilities. Chapter 11. Unique Business Models (Big Ideas). Part IV. What Goes Wrong: Impressive Companies And Their Weak Spots. Chapter 12. Does Rapid Growth Put The Brakes On Lean? Chapter 13. Losing Their Way-Or Not. Part V. Leanness: A Changing Landscape. Chapter 14. Global "Lean" Champions: Passing The Torch. Chapter 15. How Overweight Companies Get Lean. Chapter 16. Flow-Through Facilities. Chapter 17. External Linkages. Part VI. Why Industries Rank Where They Do. Chapter 18. Leanness Rankings For 33 Industrial Sectors. Chapter 19. Electronics: A Metamorphosis. Chapter 20. Motor-Vehicle Industry: Earliest But Lagging. Chapter 21. Aerospace-Defense: OEM's Soaring, Suppliers Not. Chapter 22. Other Industries. Epilogue. Index
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