Juran Institute's Six Sigma Breakthrough and Beyond: Quality Performance Breakthrough Methods (Hardcover)

~ Juran Institute (Author) "In the fall of 2002, the Juran Institute was invited to visit Shanghai, China and speak on the subject of Six Sigma..." (more)
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Based on the Juran Institute's breakthrough method, Juran's Six Sigma: Breakthrough and Beyond goes beyond certification or implementation processes discussed in most six sigma texts to prepare an organization's managers -- at all levels -- to deal with the practical day-to-day human, structural, and technological issues which arise when initiating and maintaining a Six Sigma effort.

Juran's Six Sigma: Breakthrough and Beyond allows you to modify your program to suit your individual requirements. With this book, you get everything you need to improve and maintain Six-Sigma breakthrough performance long after the consultants have packed up and gone home.

From the Inside Flap

"All in all, a welcome contribution to a vital human activity -- managing for quality."
-- From the Foreword by Joseph M. Juran

SUSTAINING BUSINESS PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT After many efforts to improve the performance of your organization, and now that the consultants have gone, how do you maintain your Six Sigma momentum? How do you keep performance-improvement teams on the cutting edge? How do you continue to achieve breakthroughs and remove the entrenched roadblocks within your organization? How can you ensure that Six Sigma breakthroughs you worked so hard to achieve continue to move forward?

Juran Institute’s Six Sigma: Breakthrough and Beyond presents the Juran Institute’s time-perfected methods for locking in a culture based on continuous performance improvement.
* Research and time-based experience that will provide answers to your most frequently asked questions about change processes and what makes them sustainable
* Continuously improve performance in leadership, strategy, organization, cycle times, new product development speed, quality control, culture, adaptability, and more
* Make rapid progress with proven Juran methods
* Solve stubborn difficulties by adapting the lessons learned from other organizations
* Learn Dr. Joseph M. Juran’s own "Lessons of a Lifetime," set forth throughout and in the Foreword

MAKE CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT A REALITY

Would you like to be leader of an organization that can become a master at dealing with the climate of continual, unpredictable change that is affecting today’s business environment?

Do you want to face unrelenting competition with supreme confidence?

Do you demand ongoing improvements in the product development time cycle? Insist upon continuing reductions in production delays, cost overruns, and defects?

Juran Institute’s Six Sigma: Breakthrough and Beyond provides the tools to achieve these results, not only now but throughout the years ahead. This book presents the Juran Institute’s own plan for sustaining improvement across the organization, to ensure that your most recent attempts to achieve breakthrough have ended and certification has been gained.

The first Six Sigma book to incorporate the full philosophy and methodology of the Juran Institute, Juran Institute’s Six Sigma includes performance-improving applications based on the Juran Trilogy of Planning Processes, Control Processes, and, and systematically achieving Breakthrough Processes.

Practical and bottom-line conscious, these Juran methods and strategies are enhanced by real world studies from Juran business clients. Juran Institute’s Six Sigma can become your handbook for change and a friend for business survival and renewal. It can provide:
* Solutions to frequently seen chronic cultural problems that cross multiple functions in an organization
* Examples of common bottlenecks and how to remove them
* Improvement, implementation, and strategies for all levels of management

The Juran Institute has helped companies around the globe successfully reshape their management processes. With this book, they can help you achieve the same sustainable bottom line results.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 374 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional; 1 edition (September 15, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0071422277
• ISBN-13: 978-0071422277
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #793,838 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Poor Book Quality, September 19, 2008

By	Daryl Turk - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Juran Institute is the standard that quality is based on in the industry. With great anticipation, I waited for this book. McGraw Hill the publisher should talk to the institute. The diagrams are probably the worst I have seen in 20 years. They look like they were copied on a dirty copy machine. The paper used for the book is poor and the typeface is huge. Frankly, I surprised that the Joran Institute would agree to publish this book with such poor printing quality.

3 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Breakthrough among Six Sigma books!, September 29, 2003

By	Praveen Gupta (Schaumburg, IL United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Six Sigma is all about breakthrough improvement. Without a breakthrough, achieving Six Sigma performance is impossible. Juran and Juran Institute are the most experienced in achieving and managing performance improvement. The Six Sigma: Breakthrough and Beyond book is unique as it is the only book that covers all aspects of achieving dramatic improvement.

Praveen Gupta
Author of Six Sigma Business Scorecard
and Co-author of Six Sigma Deployment