Holly A. Duckworth, Andrea Hoffmeier

A Six Sigma Approach to Sustainability (eBook, ePUB)

Continual Improvement for Social Responsibility

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In an age when most business plans extend only to the next quarterly reporting period, the authors of this book propose an audaciously longer view of future planning. Reaching beyond the modern five or ten-year strategic plan, the authors take a cue from Kongo Gumi, a Japanese construction company launched in 578 AD that managed to thrive as a fami

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498788250
• Artikelnr.: 45461184

Autorenporträt

Holly A. Duckworth is a certified Six Sigma Master Black Belt with over 30 years of experience in manufacturing. Holly leads organizations on the pursuit for process improvement. She has over 2000 hours as a classroom instructor. She is a volunteer leader for the American Society for Quality and their Social Responsibility Organization. Holly has coauthored two other books: My Six Sigma Workbook (Paton Professional Publishing) and Social Responsibility: Failure Mode Effects and Analysis (CRC Press).
Andrea Hoffmeier is a Six Sigma Black Belt with over 25 years' experience in marketing, product development, quality management, and organizational excellence. She has worked with organizations including Bellevue University, Callaway Golf, Convergys, Disney, First Data, Home Depot, Nordstrom, PS Brands, Ralph Lauren, Sunbeam, SunTrust Bank, UMUC, US Treasury, Verizon, Walmart and Xerox. She has trained and presented extensively on the topic of Social Responsibility, including articles in the American Society for Quality magazine and Wiley Journal. Andrea is completing her Master's degree in Sustainability and Environmental Management at Harvard.

Inhaltsangabe

Continual Improvement for Social Responsibility. The Story of Continual
Improvement. The SOFAIR Method. How SOFAIR Is Deployed in an Organization.
Examples of SOFAIR in Action. Taking Action. Appendix A: Glossary. Appendix
B: Additional References for CISR. Practitioners. Appendix C: References.
Index.