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Sailing Through Six Sigma - Book & CD Set

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"I have been certified as a Black Belt in a plant of Johnson Controls who manufactures Trim Covers during the last 2 1/2 years in Cd. Juarez, Mexico and when I saw the title of Sailing Through Six Sigma had the curiosity to see its content just to know more about this field that has captured my efforts during this time. My surprise was that this book is more oriented to the deployment of Six Sigma as a business strategy in any company who wants to be world class or simply to survive in the near future improving its processes, than the full exposition of a variety of statistical techniques. Although I knew how to deploy the strategy in our plant, I was not aware of the full implications of the deployment of Six Sigma as a business strategy. Reading this book helped me to see exactly what is needed, when is needed and how to do it and the people responsible to do it. Specially, the chapter of how to perform successfully a Six Sigma project since the very beginning to its conclusion was outstanding because during the time I have been involved in performing projects, my concern has been also how to be succesfull in this issue. So the book's structure is well planned and esy to follow, specially the formats are helpfull to see how to go from one step to the next one in order of importance. I highly recommned this book to those who are actully involved in deploying Six Sigma and to those interested just in knowing more about the theme"

I got my copy of Sailing Through Six Sigma, and realized that I finally had in my hands a clear, readable explanation and guide to the Six Sigma management method. I confess to bias; I use the Memory Joggers from Goal/QPC that Michael Brassard and Diane Ritter wrote before, and was expecting something good. Even so, I was surprised, pleasantly, by some of their innovations in this book. It is really approachable, both to read, and to have as a soup-to-nuts reference book. The Six Sigma world needs this book; it's the one thing you can hand to your CEO, or your engineers, or your friends.

In my review of the original book (sans CD), I wrote about how wonderful and alive the book itself is. The book - CD/E-book combo kicks it up more than a few notches. The E-book maintains the artistic and exciting aura of the original book. It is a must have, especially for laptop toting Black Belts such as myself. There are hundreds and hundreds of reference materials that a literally a click away. As a matter of fact, I leave the E-book open on my laptop all day long for quick reference.

A feature of the E-book that I really like is its searching capabilities. Type in your topic of interest, click on the search button, and the E-book returns a summary of your search with a hyperlink to go straight to the topic. Absolutely wonderful!

The E-book is great, however, I think the E-book should have come with reproducible templates.
In conclusion, the E-book is unquestionably awesome.

The book is an excellent resource. The CD / ebook version that is contained in the back of the book has an almost unlimited range of materials. Everything and every term I could think of was there and immediately displayed. While I have seen e books before, this one was really neat, you can search by index, topic, chapter or term and get definitions, proceedures, applications, examples, case studies or a video. If you want more ask for a power point presentaion and it pops to the screen. The CD also has a search function. The backup material in the e book is over a 1000 items.

Michael Brassard and Diane Ritter have a gift for communicating important stuff in plain English. It's a rare gift in the Six Sigma world, and one that's been sorely needed. If you are wondering what Six Sigma is about, and it you want to use its ideas to make good changes in your organization, this book will help.

Thank you for creating this reference for those of us who have to do real work. The resources at most of our finger tips is often a pile of 3 ring binders and reams of training documents. This handy reference makes it easy to pick the right tool and approach - especially in a pinch.

It's the kind of publication we've come to expect from the authors of the Memory Jogger - thanks Mr. Brassard and Ms. Ritter!

I have not found a single Six Sigma book that really teaches you the tools you are going to use. All of the authors asume that you should already know them or that you are going to buy other books. When is someone going to write a complete Six Sigma book? Not just the stuff for the managers, but how to do QFD, how to do SPC charts, how to do FMEA, how to do ANOVA, etc. If they dedicate 20 pages to the strategic phase it is more than enough, because what is difficult to learn are all the math and statistics needed. The best one I have read is the George Eckes book, but it also misses a lot.

This is beyond a book - it is a veritable gold mine of lists, resources and practical advice on HOW to conduct Six Sigma in a real world setting. Probably one of the best resources I have had a chance to review and read - and a great addition to any practitioner's tool chest. Strongly recommend - and make sure you get the CD.

The presentation, layout and graphics allows for an easy read and ability to navigate through the basics of 6 Sigma.

It is suitable for Senior Management, Champions and Green Belts. Master Black Belts and Black Belts will find the
electronic book/CD version helpful and the electronic Six Sigma Knowledge Base (due to be released later this year) even more helpful for statistical and data tools.

This version of the book, could well serve as the foundation for your workbook for training purposes. The templates, case studies and sample forms are helpful for basic planning.

I found the chapters on the first 6 months, Selecting a Project and DMAIIC (where the extra I is for Implement) helpful when presenting to Management and Champions.

The book has a style that can also be used for training and informing employees who are not familiar with 6 Sigma.

Looking forward to the Six Sigma Knowledge Base when released.

The book clearly develop's the Six Sigma implementation method. It will be very useful to me in the future. However, right now, I need a more fundamental introduction to the statistical tools employed in defining a Six Sigma project.
This book tells which tools to use, and when to use them, but it does not explain HOW to use them. Unfortunately, I am in the position of not knowing the HOW. Perhaps I would do better with a course int Statistical Analysis.