Start Six Sigma Fast-And Achieve Powerful Business Benefits Within Months This book offers leaders a proven turnkey approach to launching a Six Sigma initiative in 90 days & using it to transform your company within a year. Drawing on their experience with fifty Six Sigma programs at companies ranging from Allied Signal to Motorola Stephen A. Zinkgraf & his contributors show how to rapidly align people strategy processes & customers in support of your initiative-and gain powerful momentum for success. Youll walk through preparing for an enterprise-wide launch executing it flawlessly & establishing a foundation for achieving sustainable results over the long term. Zinkgrafs techniques roadmaps & milestones can help you quickly launch any complex change initiative-even those unrelated to Six Sigma. Taken together they offer a complete framework for driving & managing change: the 1 core competency for twenty-first century executives. Coverage

Includes:: * Leading Six Sigma: roadmaps milestones & techniques for delivering fast sustainable gains * Effectively preparing flawlessly executing & extending your impact for years to come * Identifying opportunities building teams choosing partners defining metrics managing risk & much more * Discovering best practices from over fifty successful launches: techniques that work with any large-scale change initiative Discover how to get dramatic business results from Six Sigma faster than you ever thought possible & use Six Sigma to drive transformative change for years to come. Writing for executives & initiative leaders Stephen A. Zinkgraf presents a high-speed methodology for linking Six Sigma to business strategy planning & executing a flawless launch aligning the entire enterprise behind performance improvement & achieving powerful results in both the short & long term. Zinkgraf helped lead Larry Bossidys pioneering Six Sigma program at Allied Signal-he & his team have participated in more than fifty Six Sigma launches. In this book he reveals best practices for leading every step of the process. Youll learn how to identify prioritize & charter breakthrough projects...choose the right partners...define roles...build & train teams...mitigate risks...implement effective metrics...and evangelize" the organization. Then after youve launched Zinkgraf shows how to improve your program-and use HR IT & other business levers to extend your impact. Simply put if youre leading Six Sigma this books Six Sigma roadmaps milestones & techniques represent the fastest route to the most business value. * Master the lessons of the worlds best Six Sigma deployments Learn from the experiences of Allied Signal Motorola 3M & fifty other Six Sigma leaders * Link Six Sigma directly to your balance sheet Set aggressive measurable business goals-and achieve them * Plan & execute a flawless launch-within 90 days! Define priorities organize teams choose partners structure enterprise-wide deployments & more * Sustain Six Sigma for the long term Using a clearly defined leadership roadmap align organization structure compensation succession planning IT resources & more * Avoid the classic Six Sigma "failure modes" Why Six Sigma projects fail & how to keep it from happening to you Preface xiii Acknowledgments xvii About the Author xix Contributors List xxi PARTI: PRE-LAUNCH 1 Chapter 1: Six Sigma-The Initiative the Deployment the Technology 3 Chapter 2: The True Nature of Six Sigma: The Business Model 17 Chapter 3: Six Sigma Launch Philosophy 37 Chapter 4: Getting Early Support: Selecting a Six Sigma Provider 55 Chapter 5: Strategy: The Alignment of External Realities Setting Measurable Goals & Internal Actions 69 Chapter 6: Defining the Six Sigma Program Expectations & Metrics 87 PART II: THE FIRST 90 DAYS 103 Chapter 7: Defining the Six Sigma Project Scope 105 Chapter 8: Defining th"

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