Böcker av Michael George

Provides the tools for implementing Lean Six Sigma - what they are, how they work, and which to use. This book presents the tools and concepts needed to understand, implement, and leverage Lean Six Sigma. It provides analyses of nearly 100 tools and methodologies - from DMAIC and Pull Systems to Control Charts and Pareto Charts.

Offers an introduction on how to use Lean Six Sigma to improve your workplace, meet your goals, and better serve your customers. This title helps to discover how Lean Six Sigma quality improvement method can give you the tools to identify and eliminate waste and quality problems in your own work area.

Bring the miracle of Lean Six Sigma improvement out of manufacturing and into servicesMuch of the U.S. economy is now based on services rather than manufacturing. Yet the majority of books on Six Sigma and Lean--today's major quality improvement initiatives--explain only how to implement these techniques in a manufacturing environment.Lean Six Sigma for Services fills the need for a service-based approach, explaining how companies of all types can cost-effectively translate manufacturing-oriented Lean Six Sigma tools into the service delivery process.Filled with case studies detailing dramatic service improvements in organizations from Lockheed Martin to Stanford University Hospital, this bottom-line book provides executives and managers with the knowledge they need to:Reduce service costs by 30 to 60 percent Improve service delivery time by 50 percent Expand capacity by 20 percent without adding staff

Through a simple act of good will, Mack Thomas puts himself, his wife, and the rest of his family on the target list of two evil men and their followers, a religious cult. His wife is made a special target, although an elusive one.Several women are also targeted: Women considered by the religious cult to be uppity. Women who refuse to be subservient to men, simply because they are men. At the same time, seniors are being murdered, only for the joy of the killing and the blood.Mack and the rest of the Clayborne County Sheriff''s Department find the solutions beyond the scope of normal police work-solutions they are determined to find.

Dave Sanders joins Linda, the love of his life in San Francisco. It's the sixties, and they immediately pick up on the lifestyle of the era and the city. Their life there is filled with joy and a lot of love, together and with others. Work is also filled with new adventures as Dave ventures into the new world of main frame computers, operating and programming.When they leave San Francisco to return to the Midwest, they stop at Waterloo, Iowa, Linda's hometown. There, they get married and spend their wedding night with another couple, who are two old friends. It proves to be a memorable night.They finally settle on a piece of land in Minnesota, northwest of Minneapolis. There is where they live out their lives, filled with nonstop love and adventure. Work, and the challenges of corporate life, followed by an independent life where he makes his own decisions is a big part of life for Dave. But for Dave, life with Linda was the best adventure of all, as their love continues to grow, no matter how many years go by.

For nearly forty years the legendary firm led by Charles Follen McKim, William Rutherford Mead, and Stanford White was responsible for many of the finest buildings in America, including the Boston Public Library, Penn Station in New York, the Morgan Library, and the campus of Columbia University. This anthology of plans, elevations, and details of the major work of McKim, Mead, and White is an invaluable reference and inspiration for any student of architecture.

Explains how to impact a company's performance by combining the strength of Lean Production and Six Sigma. This book shows how Lean and Six Sigma methods complement each other. It outlines a program for combining the synergies of these initiatives to provide the organization with greater speed, less process variation, and more bottom-line impact.