Guide to Six Sigma and Process Improvement for Practitioners and Students, A: Foundations, DMAIC, Tools, Cases, and…

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Master modern Six Sigma implementation with the most complete, up-to-date guide for Green Belts, Black Belts, Champions and students! Now fully up to date with the contemporary lean and process Keep watch over applications, A Guide to Lean Six Sigma and Process Improvement for Practitioners and Students, Second Edition offers you a complete executive framework for understanding quality and implementing Lean Six Sigma. Whether you are a green belt, black belt, champion, or student, Howard Gitlow and Richard Melnyck cover all you wish to have to know. Step-by-step, they systematically walk you through the five-step DMAIC implementation process, with detailed examples and many real-world case studies. You’ll be able to find practical coverage of Six Sigma statistics and management techniques, from dashboards and Keep watch over charts to hypothesis testing and experiment design. Drawing on their extensive experience consulting on Six Sigma and leading major Lean and quality initiatives, Gitlow and Melnyck offer up-to-date coverage of:

• What Six Sigma can do, and how to manage it effectively
• Six Sigma roles, responsibilities, and terminology
• Running Six Sigma programs with Dashboards and Keep watch over Charts
• Mastering every DMAIC phase: Define, Measure, Analyze, Beef up, Control
• Understanding foundational Six Sigma statistics: probability, probability distributions, sampling distributions, and interval estimation
• Pursuing Six Sigma Champion or Green Belt Certification, and more

This guide will be an invaluable resource for everyone who is currently involved in Six Sigma implementation, or plans to be. It’s ideal for students in quality programs; “Green Belts” who project manage Six Sigma implementations, “Black Belts” who lead Six Sigma teams; “Champions” who promote and coordinate Six Sigma at the executive level; and anyone seeking Six Sigma certification.