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Summary: Non Ecological
Review: The authors used more than two hundred pages describing what can be written in ten. At least they could had saved some trees... It would be better classified as a business romance.
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Summary: Regret to buy this book
Review: Talks a lot on how good Six Sigma is, but after reading the whole book, I have no idea of exactly what Six Sigma Breakthrough Strategy is. Maybe I need to pay for their consultancy service to learn this.
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Summary: How many, how many and who.
Review: I FELT YOUR BOOK WAS VERY INFORMATIVE AND VERY INTERESTING AND REALLY MOTIVATED ME TO START A BUSINESS USING THIS MGT STYLE.BUT, YOU DID NOT ANSWER TWO QUESTIONS I NEED TO KNOW 1. HOW MANY BUSINESSES OR COMPANIES ARE USING SIX SIGMA IN THE UNITED STATES? AND HOW MANY AROUND THE WORLD? 2. CAN YOU JUSTIFY OR PROVE THAT THESE BUSINESSES OR COMPANIES ARE USING SIX SIGMA STYLE.
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Summary: Better Title, "Come to the Six Sigma Academy!"
Review: I first ordered and read this book when I was just beginning my journey down statistics and the Six Sigma Quality initiative training. Back then, I would have rated this book a 4 or a 5. But as my learning grows, so does my dissappointment in this book. If you have no knowledge of Six Sigma whatsoever, here's a heads up: "THIS BOOK IS JUST AN ADVERTISEMENT." I found "The Six Sigma Way" by Peter Pande a much better written, much more meaty book that has something for you no matter where on the scale of understanding you are. Not to slam too hard on the superficial content of this book, I have been told that Mikel Harry has written some better books in greater detail on the Six Sigma process but right now I'm afraid to shell out bigger bucks to have bigger dissappointments.
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Summary: Deployment of SixSigma in the Oil & Gas Industry
Review: Mikel Harry has developed the formula to implement SixSigma in almost any business. We have adopted Dr. Mikel Harry's approach taught in this book and are implementing SixSigma in the Oil & Gas Segment at ABB. I enjoyed his style. His directions are clear. His implementation methodology has even been adopted and improved by the BMGroup as a start-up SixSigma provider. As the deployment Champion at our company, I have purchased and distributed over 50 books to my collegues, business Champions, Suppliers and SixSigma practitioners. We have developed projects according to Dr. Harry and are completing projects in finance, manufacturing and engineering. Thank You Mikel Harry!
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Summary: Great Start--But needs PArt two to get in deep.
Review: A very good book to read. But if you need in depth knowledge you must read another book. Majd Abbassi
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Summary: The Beef is Located . . .
Review: I agree with all that this is a high-level book The beef behind this summary of Six Sigma can be located in Dr. Harry's book entitled "The Vision of Six Sigma: A Roadmap for Breakthrough." Of course the tag is pricy, but it does contain all of the tools and tactical information necessary to launch an effective Six Sigma program. I think the intent of this book was to reach the VITOs within an organization as demonstrated by their ranking on BW's top 20 hardcover list.
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Summary: Where's the beef?
Review: I agree with the complaints of many of the other reviewers of this book. I believe that Six Sigma truly is a powerful industrial/business tool. Unfortunately this book reads like it was designed as a brochure for managers considering implementation of quality control programs for their companies. There are some basic Six Sigma tenets outlined, but in disappointingly little depth. It was especially frustrating to wade through all of the RAH-RAH name-dropping of corporations and CEOs to get to any real information. I did not expect to be a 'black belt' when I finished this book, but all I really came away with was a cursory introduction to the Six Sigma approach and the sense that I had just been delivered a thinly veiled sales pitch.
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Summary: Very basic and not helpful in learning how To apply SS
Review: Most books that are dedicated to a new management program open with what a breakthrough in thinking they are and that they will do so much more for the business than any of the „flavor-of-the-month" programs. This book is no exception. Six Sigma is so much better than TQM, Reengineering, Kaizen or whatever. And that is actually already half the book. It tells you a lot about how great Six Sigma is and how much you can improve your business; but, it lacks to go more into depth with the Six Sigma Breakthrough Strategy tools. Actually, it is very obvious how much the authors avoid giving you helpful advise on how to work Six Sigma and explaining the tools. It seems as if the intention of this book is mainly to get your attention for Six Sigma and to get you to send your employees to the author's Six Sigma Academy. Hopefully, someone will follow with a book that gives you real helpful advice on how to use Six Sigma, not only how great it is. If you are familiar with most of the statistical Quality tools and are already applying them successfully, then you have already laid the basics for implementing Six Sigma. It will mainly alter the focus (to Critical-to-Quality Characteristics) and the organization (the Black Belts) of your activities as well as how you measure them (e.g. the Sigma Value). Basically, Six Sigma is not that much of a revolutionary way of thinking. Many parallels to TQM will be very obvious if you really know how live TQM. The success of any management tool or philosophy always depends on its implementation. Six Sigma will fail as much as did Reengineering or Lean Management or others in many companies if management does not know how to implement and live it. It is mentioned several times in the book that the success of Six Sigma started fading away as soon as senior management's support was withdrawn.
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Summary: Very basic and not very well written
Review: Most books that are dedicated to a new management program open with what a breakthrough in thinking they are and that they will do so much more for the business than any of the „flavor-of-the-month" programs. This book is no exception. Six Sigma is so much better than TQM, Reengineering, Kaizen or whatever. And that is actually already half the book. It tells you a lot about how great Six Sigma is and how much you can improve your business; but, it lacks to go more into depth with the Six Sigma Breakthrough Strategy tools. Actually, it is very obvious how much the authors avoid giving you helpful advise on how to work Six Sigma and explaining the tools. It seems as if the intention of this book is mainly to get your attention for Six Sigma and to get you to send your employees to the author's Six Sigma Academy. Hopefully, someone will follow with a book that gives you real helpful advice on how to use Six Sigma, not only how great it is. If you are familiar with most of the statistical Quality tools and are already applying them successfully, then you have already laid the basics for implementing Six Sigma. It will mainly alter the focus (to Critical-to-Quality Characteristics) and the organization (the Black Belts) of your activities as well as how you measure them (e.g. the Sigma Value). Basically, Six Sigma is not that much of a revolutionary way of thinking. Many parallels to TQM will be very obvious if you really know how live TQM. The success of any management tool or philosophy always depends on its implementation. Six Sigma will fail as much as did Reengineering or Lean Management or others in many companies if management does not know how to implement and live it. It is mentioned several times in the book that the success of Six Sigma started fading away as soon as senior management's support was withdrawn.
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