Sailing Through Six Sigma - Book & CD Set

by Michael Brassard

Book Overview

Now get a great book with an electronic version! Sailing Through Six Sigma is the most user-friendly and comprehensive guide for implementing the Six Sigma performance improvement process. By the same... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Spiral-bound
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0970683928
• ISBN13: 9780970683922
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Ritter Resources
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 1.0" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

Cutting through the Six Sigma hype

Michael Brassard and Diane Ritter have a gift for communicating important stuff in plain English. It's a rare gift in the Six Sigma world, and one that's been sorely needed. If you are wondering what Six Sigma is about, and it you want to use its ideas to make good changes in your organization, this book will help.

Simplicity: Six Sigma for the rest of us..

Thank you for creating this reference for those of us who have to do real work. The resources at most of our finger tips is often a pile of 3 ring binders and reams of training documents. This handy reference makes it easy to pick the right tool and approach - especially in a pinch.It's the kind of publication we've come to expect from the authors of the Memory Jogger - thanks Mr. Brassard and Ms. Ritter!

What a resource a book and a 1000 pages of back up material

The book is an excellent resource. The CD / ebook version that is contained in the back of the book has an almost unlimited range of materials. Everything and every term I could think of was there and immediately displayed. While I have seen e books before, this one was really neat, you can search by index, topic, chapter or term and get definitions, proceedures, applications, examples, case studies or a video. If you want more ask for a power point presentaion and it pops to the screen. The CD also has a search function. The backup material in the e book is over a 1000 items.

Six Sigma in plain English

I got my copy of Sailing Through Six Sigma, and realized that I finally had in my hands a clear, readable explanation and guide to the Six Sigma management method. I confess to bias; I use the Memory Joggers from Goal/QPC that Michael Brassard and Diane Ritter wrote before, and was expecting something good. Even so, I was surprised, pleasantly, by some of their innovations in this book. It is really approachable, both to read, and to have as a soup-to-nuts reference book. The Six Sigma world needs this book; it's the one thing you can hand to your CEO, or your engineers, or your friends.

Six Sigma Deployment Help

"I have been certified as a Black Belt in a plant of Johnson Controls who manufactures Trim Covers during the last 2 1/2 years in Cd. Juarez, Mexico and when I saw the title of Sailing Through Six Sigma had the curiosity to see its content just to know more about this field that has captured my efforts during this time. My surprise was that this book is more oriented to the deployment of Six Sigma as a business strategy in any company who wants to be world class or simply to survive in the near future improving its processes, than the full exposition of a variety of statistical techniques. Although I knew how to deploy the strategy in our plant, I was not aware of the full implications of the deployment of Six Sigma as a business strategy. Reading this book helped me to see exactly what is needed, when is needed and how to do it and the people responsible to do it. Specially, the chapter of how to perform successfully a Six Sigma project since the very beginning to its conclusion was outstanding because during the time I have been involved in performing projects, my concern has been also how to be succesfull in this issue. So the book's structure is well planned and esy to follow, specially the formats are helpfull to see how to go from one step to the next one in order of importance. I highly recommned this book to those who are actully involved in deploying Six Sigma and to those interested just in knowing more about the theme"