he New Bottom Line: Bridging the Value Gaps that are Undermining Your Business

The New Bottom Line: Bridging the Value Gaps that are Undermining Your Business
By Alan Mitchell, Andreas W. Bauer, Gerhard Hausruckinger

Publisher: Capstone
Number Of Pages: 276
Publication Date: 2003-08-20
ISBN-10/ ASIN: 1841124761
ISBN-13/ EAN: 9781841124766

This radical, provocative and inspiring book explores a tectonic shift at the very heart of business. A shift that making the old bottom line of corporate profitability the servant of a new master: a new person-centric bottom line of personal profitability or value in my life.

So what? No bottom line? No more profit?

Of course not! Every organization must cover its costs. Every business has to make a profit
to survive. The authors of The New Global Line remarkably show that the necessary requirements for doing so are changing, and why this transformation containing important elements of both evolution and revolution is under way, how its undermining the foundations of once-great businesses and brands, and how its throwing up huge new opportunities.

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Quality Control for Dummies (Business & Personal Finance)

Quality Control for Dummies (Business & Personal Finance)
By Larry Webber, Michael Wallace

Publisher: For Dummies
Number Of Pages: 384
Publication Date: 2007-01-03
ISBN-10/ ASIN: 0470069090
ISBN-13/ EAN: 9780470069097

So you’ve been asked to lead a quality control initiative? Or maybe you’ve been assigned to a quality team. Perhaps you’re a CEO whose main concern is to make your company faster, more efficient, and less expensive. Whatever your role is, quality control is a critical concept in every industry and profession.

Quality Control For Dummies is the straightforward, easy guide to improving your company’s quality. It covers all of today’s available options and provides expert techniques for introducing quality methods to your company, collecting data, designing quality processes, and more. This hands-on guide gives you all the tools you’ll ever need to enhance your company’s quality, including:

* Understanding the importance of quality standards
* Putting fundamental quality control methods to use
* Listening to your customer about quality issues
* Whipping quality control into shape with Lean
* Working with value stream mapping
* Focusing on the 5S method
* Supplement a process with Kanban
* Fixing tough problems with Six Sigma
* Using QFD to win customers over
* Improving you company with TOC

This invaluable reference is written from an unbiased viewpoint, giving you all the facts about each theory with no fuzzy coverings. It also includes steps for incorporating quality into a new product and Web sites packed with quality control tips and techniques. With Quality Control For Dummies, you’ll be able to speed up production, eliminate waste, and save money!

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Six Sigma Workbook For Dummies (Business & Personal Finance)

Six Sigma Workbook For Dummies (Business & Personal Finance)
By Craig Gygi, Bruce Williams, Terry Gustafson

Publisher: For Dummies
Number Of Pages: 312
Publication Date: 2006-10-02
ISBN-10/ ASIN: 0470045191
ISBN-13/ EAN: 9780470045190

Improve your efficiency -- and bring in big profits!

Need help implementing or understanding Six Sigma? Want to take this powerful problem-solving methodology and apply it to your business? Six Sigma isn't just for Fortune 500 companies anymore; it's for every business, even yours, no matter how big or small. This hands-on workbook provides the knowledge, insight, and practical exercises you need to master Six Sigma and put it to work in your business. Perfect as a companion workbook for Six Sigma For Dummies -- or any other Six Sigma book -- Six Sigma Workbook For Dummies gives you a wealth of examples, problems, and other tools you need to turn Six Sigma theory into practice -- today!

Discover:
* How to form and lead a Six Sigma initiative
* Project alignment with business objectives and strategy
* How to create process flow maps and models
* Chart and graph plotting for analysis and interpretation
* Methods for calculating Sigma scores
* How to quantify variable relationships

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