Juran institute's six sigma - Breakthrough and beyond

Performance improvements without limit

After 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 break through 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's Six Sigma: Breakthrough and Beyond presents the Juran Institute's time-perfected methods for locking in a culture of performance improvement.

• Make certification just the first step in organizational transformation
• Continuously improve performance in leadership, strategy, organization, technology, IT, development speed, quality control, culture, adaptability, and more
• Make rapid progress with proven Juran methods
• Solve stubborn difficulties with case studies from other organizations
• Learn Dr. Joseph M. Juran's own "Lessons of a Lifetime," set forth in the Foreword

Make continuous improvement a reality

Would you like to be master of the climate of continual, unpredictable change that is 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'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, even after quality certification has been gained.

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

Practical and bottom-line conscious, these Juran methods and strategies are enhanced by actual case studies from Juran business clients. Juran's Six Sigma is your steadfast friend for business survival and renewal, providing:

• Solutions to frequently seen chronic problems that cross multiple functions in an organization
• Examples of common bottlenecks and how to remove them
• Improvement, implementation, and certification strategies for all levels of management

The Juran Institute has helped thousands of companies successfully remake their management processes. With this book, they can help you achieve the same brilliant results.

Contents

• The Predicament
• The Basic Tasks of Management: The Juran Trilogy
• The Planning Processes
• The Control Processes
• The Nature of Breakthrough
• Breakthroughs in Leadership
• Breakthroughs in Organization
• Breakthroughs in Current Performance Improvement - Classic and Six Sigma Dmaic
• Breakthroughs in Culture
• Breakthroughs in Adaptability
• Strategic Quality Planning and Deployment
• A Road Map for Change
• References
• Index