Handbook on Continuous Improvement Transformation
Subtitle: The Lean Six Sigma Framework and Systematic Methodology for Implementation
By: by Aristide van Aartsengel, Selahattin Kurtoglu
Contributors: Kurtoglu, Selahattin; SpringerLink (Online service)
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg; Imprint: Springer
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 643
ISBN-13: 9783642359019
Subjects: Economics/Management Science; Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk; Economics; Business planning; Organization/Planning; System safety; Production/Logistics/Supply Chain Management; Business Strategy/Leadership; Project management
Description: This handbook provides a comprehensive and detailed framework for the implementation of "Continuous Improvement" and Lean Six Sigma in a professional project management environment. For this purpose the book brings together Lean Six Sigma and the PMBOK standard for project management. It provides an integrated approach, which can be used for both transactional and manufacturing businesses to better define ways to reduce costs, enhance processes ,and achieve faster implementation and new product or service development. The reader is guided carefully and reliably through the detailed procedures introduced in this book using a comprehensive, conceptual and practical well-balanced approach.
Table of contents: title: ​Framework and Methodology; title: "PDSA Initiate" Process Group; title: "PDSAPlan" Process Group; title: Project Management Plan; title: Project Management Scope; title: Collecting V.O.C. Requirements; title: Work Breakdown Structure; title: Time Management Plan; title: Project Schedule Plan; title: Resources Management Plan; title: Quality Management Plan; title: Collecting V.O.C. Requirements; title: Experimental Study; title: Cost Management Plan; title: Procurement Management Plan; title: Communication Management Plan; title: Risk Management Plan; title: Project Retrospective; title: Assessment of the Overall Plan and Implementation; title: Conclusion to "PDSA Plan"; title: "PDSA Do" Process Group; title: Build Deliverables; title: Explore Cause-and-Effect Relationship; title: Verifying Identified Assignable Causes; title: Analysis of Process Steps and Tasks; title: Generation of Improvement Solutions; title: Monitoring and Controlling Execution; title: Conclusion to "PDSA Do"; title: "PDSA Study" Process Group; title: Study Deliverables; title: Monitor and Control Study Execution; title: Conclusion to "PDSA Study"; title: "PDSA Act" Process Group; title: Conclusion; title: Epilogue.