Wisdom on the Green : Smarter Six Sigma Business Solutions - Softcover

Forrest W. Breyfogle III; David Enck; Phil Flories; Tom Pearson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0971322201 ISBN 13: 9780971322202

Publisher: Smarters Solutions, 2001

Synopsis

This book follows four successful friends who met in graduate school while pursuing their MBAs. Now they meet for a monthly golf outing to continue their friendship, discuss their careers, and compete in a friendly golf game for the price of dinner. The challenges they face in business and in their personal lives are all too familiar.

Golf provides an intriguing metaphor for the game of life, with its complexities and challenges, changing conditions, chances for creativity, penalties, and rewards. Moreover, golf is the game most often associated with business. As Hank, Jorge, Wayne, and Zack share their experiences and pursuit of improvement in Wisdom on the Green, they discover powerful new insights that help them see how they can improve their game, both in business and in golf.

This book gives focus on the implementation of Six Sigma as a business strategy. Part of this methodology will include the integration of the Lean Enterprise philosophy with that of Six Sigma.  The implementation of ISO-9000, Malcolm Baldrige Assessments, Total Quality Management (TQM), Balanced Scorecard, and Theory of Constraints (TOC) are also discussed. Described is an enhanced methodology for implementing lean Six Sigma. This book refers to the methodology as Smarter Six Sigma Solutions. In later publications, the author refers to this business management system as Integrated Enterprise Excellence (IEE).

Unfortunately, Lean Six Sigma organizational process deployments often are not long-lasting. IEE was created to address this problem. Integrated Enterprise Excellence Volume I provides a description of the benefits of the IEE system and is an update to Wisdom on the Green. Integrated Enterprise Excellence Volume II describes the 9-step IEE business management system, which among other things uses an IEE value chain to align 30,000-foot-level predictive scorecards with the processes that created them. Integrated Enterprise Excellence Volume II also describes the details of determining where lean Six Sigma improvement projects should focus so that the business as a whole benefits.  Integrated Enterprise Excellence Volume III describes the roadmap details for executing improvement efforts so that the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that are important to the business can be efficiently improved so that there is a demonstrated long-lasting enhanced response resulting in business-as-a-whole benefit.  

About this title

About the Author:

Forrest W. Breyfogle III

Forrest W. Breyfogle III is a Professional Engineer, ASQ (American Society for Quality) Certified Quality Engineer and Reliability Engineer, and an ASQ Fellow. He has conducted many Six Sigma training and coaching sessions throughout the world. He has taught classes or conducted external workshops for many professional societies, including Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), American Society for Quality (ASQ), and Association for Manufacturing Excellence (AME).

David Enck

David has eight years of experience as a Master Black Belt and over 15 years of experience with measurement capability, statistical process control, and design of experiments for process and product development in a variety of industries. He has worked with flexible circuits, medical devices, IC manufacturing and environmental assessment. In addition to his extensive industrial experience, David has broad teaching experience that includes three years of lecturing in the Statistics Department at the University of Florida and teaching DFSS and process characterization methods to all levels of a business operation, from VP to operator.

David is a Ph.D. candidate (A.B.D.) in Industrial and Systems Engineering, with a minor in Statistics, from the University of Florida at Gainesville. He holds both an M.A. and a B.A. in Statistics, with an emphasis in Computer Science and Engineering, from SUNY at Buffalo, New York.

Phil Flories

Phil is an instructor and course developer for Smarter Solutions. Previously, he spent 25 years with Motorola as a Quality Engineer. Phil is a certified lead examiner for QS9000 (Lloyds). His ASQ certifications include Certified Quality Engineer, Certified Quality Manager, and Certified Quality Auditor. He also prepares and teaches ASQ certification preparation classes (CQE, CQT, CMI, CQA, CQM).

Phil has served with the Texas Quality Award, six years on the panel of judges and seven years training examiners. He lives in the Austin, Texas area with his wife and three children.

Thomas A. Pearson

Tom Pearson is a Technical Fellow and co-founder of Praedictus Corporation, an Indianapolis company that provides predictive process management software tools and methods for real-time operations management and business improvement. Tom received his BA in Physics and Mathematics from University of Indianapolis and MS in Operations Research from The George Washington University. Tom is a systems scientist, designer, consultant, speaker, and author in the field of business improvement and information systems. He co-holds US patents for Real-Time Quality Management and Entity Relation Data Base software. He also designed the Exploratory Quality Control software and co-authored the Exploratory Quality Control Handbook. Tom was elected a Fellow in the American Society for Quality in 1998, and completed his S4 Black Belt training in 1999.

About this edition

• Publisher: Smarters Solutions
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0971322201
• ISBN 13: 9780971322202
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 170