Six Sigma on a Budget: Achieving More with Less Using the Principles of Six Sigma June 14, 2010
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Six Sigma on a Budget
Achieving More with Less Using the Principles of Six Sigma
Authors: Brussee, Warren
ISBN-13: 978-0-07-173675-6
ISBN-10: 0071736751
©2010 | 1st Edition | 192 pages , Softcover
Pub Date: June 2010
Price: US$ 19.95
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All the value of six sigma–Immediate results now available without the overhead!
In today’s economy, organizations need to improve quality, solve problems, and increase efficiencies on the fly—and Six Sigma has proven its worth to large and small companies around the world in all these areas. Written by a leading Six Sigma expert, Warren Brussee, Six Sigma on a Budget explains how you can use the principles of Six Sigma to see immediate results–all without expensive consultants or disruptive classes.
Exclusive features of Six Sigma on a Budget:
- Written in plain English, it delivers huge benefits to anyone who’s learned high school math and Microsoft Excel
- Can be implemented by managers or individuals without additional staff—in virtually any type of business
- Teaches all Six Sigma and Lean Six Sigma skills to give you knowledge equivalent to a traditionally trained Six Sigma green belt
- Includes case studies, formulas, glossary, quick tips, and other at-a-glance aids
From the basics to more advanced strategies, the invaluable skills in Six Sigma on a Budget help you get great results with a limited investment of time and money
About the Author
Warren Brussee spent 33 years at GE as an engineer, plant manager, and engineering manager. His responsibilities included manufacturing plants in the U.S., Hungary, and China. He received his Six Sigma training at GE, but found the training and the related manuals wanting. Warren then began teaching a simplified version of Six Sigma at GE and eventually wrote several books on Six Sigma.
Warren Brussee’s current Six Sigma books, Statistics for Six Sigma Made Easy and All About Six Sigma, both published by McGraw-Hill, have sold over 50,000 copies and continue to sell well. Many universities use Statistics for Six Sigma Made Easy as their primary text for teaching Six Sigma. Three such schools are: The University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Bridgeport School of Engineering, and Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
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CHINAMERICA: The Uneasy Partnership that Will Change the World June 10, 2010
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CHINAMERICA
The Uneasy Partnership that Will Change the World
Authors: Jones, Handel
ISBN-13: 978-0-07-174242-9
ISBN-10: 0071742425
©2010 | 1st Edition | 304 pages , Hardcover
Pub Date: July 2010
Price: US$ 27.95
From a leading global economic analyst, the definitive look at the costs and benefits of competing with China
Conventional wisdom pits China against the U.S. in a war for economic supremacy. However, In ChinAmerica, Handel Jones, a pioneer in creating Sino-American business partnerships, and one of the leading experts on China’s industrial and economic emergence, demonstrates that the wave of the future is cooperation between the two titans, not conflict-and how America will benefit from increased economic engagement and competition with China.
Focusing on several key areas of conflict and mutual interest, Jones details what American businesses and policy-makers must do to keep pace with China’s private and state-owned corporations. Filled with sharp observations and cutting-edge research, ChinAmerica is the most comprehensive look yet at the interdependency of the world’s two leading powers. It is, in short, a book that will change minds about Sino-American relations.
Endorsements
“A must-read for anyone seeking to understand the emergence of China as a major industrial power and how profoundly it is changing the world economy.” — Dr. Henry Kressel, author of Competing for the Future: How Digital Innovations Are Changing the World
“This book is essential reading for business leaders and observers everywhere as this dramatic shift of economic and political power from the West to China continues.” — Ray Bingham, chairman, Flextronics International
“ChinAmerica provides extremely in-depth visibility into the interactions and interdependency of China and the United States. I believe everyone who takes the time to read it will learn of the many challenges and opportunities that exist for both China and the United States.” — Richard Kulle, president and CEO, gEM Services, Inc.
“Handel Jones lays out concisely what China is doing right and the United States is doing wrong. This is a wake-up call because China today is the most serious economic competitor that the United States has ever faced. This book should be required reading for all U.S. politicians and business leaders.” — Wilfred J. Corrigan, founder, chairman, and CEO (retired), LSI Logic Corp.
Publicities
1. Book Review
- by The Next Silicon Valley, July 16, 2010
2. Book Review
- by China Daily on August 03, 2010
3. Book Review
- China Economic Review
4. Book Review
- Today’s Manager Oct -Nov 2010 Issue
5. Book Review
- Chinese Cross Culture Vol.8 No.4
5. Interview with Handel Jones
- China Daily on August 03, 2010
6. Interview with Handel Jones
- Jing Daily
7. Interview with Handel Jones
- Global Times
About the Author
Handel Jones is the founder, owner, and CEO of International Business Strategies, Inc. He has over 35 years of experience in the industry, which has included senior management positions at ITT and at Rockwell International (an organization with over 100K employees), where he was VP of Strategic Planning, Acquisitions, International Marketing, and Engineering for the Commercial Electronics group.
International Business Strategies has been in business for 21 years and is a market and strategy consulting company, and the customers include the leaders in the electronics business in the U.S., Japan, Europe, South Korea, Taiwan, and China. Examples of customers include IBM, Nokia, Samsung, Sony, Toshiba, TSMC, and China Resources, as well as many of the large financial institutions. International Business Strategies is also involved with analyzing government strategies and the impact on the global economic environment.
Dr. Jones has presented at the Warburg Pincus Technology and Media Roundtable in Beijing (over multiple years). He has been quoted in Fortune, the Wall Street Journal, Business Week, and former Fortune editor Gene Bylinsky’s book called the “The Japanese Chip Challenge”. Dr. Jones has been involved with China since the early 1980s and had interaction with the Minister of Industry of China. There was also a strong emphasis on Japan, including the rise and fall of the Japanese industry as well as the analysis of the rise of South Korea and the growth of Taiwan.
The current area of emphasis is on the China industry. Dr. Jones has traveled extensively around China, with over 10 visits to China in 2008 alone. The analysis of the Chinese industry includes the activities of the Chinese government, the state-owned enterprises (SOEs), and the private companies. Dr. Jones has focused on helping international businesses to invest in China as well as for Chinese companies to expand overseas.
His work has supported Carlyle, Blackstone, CitiGroup, Warburg Pincus, Walden, KKR, Morgan Stanley, and Bain Capital and covers mergers and acquisitions, venture capital, business expansion and restructuring. There is in-depth understanding of the past trends, but the key area of emphasis is projecting the impact on future global economic environments.
The Drucker Lectures: Essential Lessons on Management, Society and Economy June 10, 2010
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The Drucker Lectures
Essential Lessons on Management, Society and Economy
Authors: Drucker, Peter F.; Wartzman, Rick
ISBN-13: 978-0-07-170045-0
ISBN-10: 0071700455
©2010 | 1st Edition | 336 pages , Hardcover
Pub Date: July 2010
Price: US$ 29.95
Previously unpublished talks from the Father of Modern Management
Throughout his professional life, Peter F. Drucker inspired millions of business leaders not only through his famous writings but also through his lectures and keynotes. These speeches contained some of his most valuable insights, but had never been published in book form—until now.
The Drucker Lectures features more than 30 talks from one of management’s most important figures. Drawn from the Drucker Archives at the Drucker Institute at Claremont Graduate University, the lectures showcase Drucker’s wisdom, wit, profundity, and prescience on such topics as:
- Politics and economics of the environment
- Knowledge workers and the Knowledge Society
- Computer and information literacy
- Managing nonprofit organizations
- Globalization
During his life, Drucker well understood that over the last 150 years the world had become a society of large institutions—and that they would only become larger and more powerful. He contended that unless these institutions were effectively managed and ethically led, the good health of society as a whole would be in peril. His prediction is unfolding before our eyes.
The Drucker Lectures is a timely, instructive book proving that responsible behavior and good business can, in fact, exist hand in hand.
About the Author
Rick Wartzman (Claremont, CA) is executive director of the Drucker Institute at Claremont Graduate University. By advancing the teachings of the late Peter F. Drucker, the Institute seeks to stimulate effective management and ethical leadership across all sectors of society. Wartzman is also a columnist for BusinessWeek online.
His most recent book, Obscene in the Extreme: The Burning and Banning of John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, was published by PublicAffairs in September 2008. It was picked as a Borders “Original Voices” selection and named by the Los Angeles Times as one of its 25 favorite nonfiction books of the year. It was also a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in history. Wartzman is the co-author, with Mark Arax, of the best-seller The King of California: J.G. Boswell and the Making of a Secret American Empire, which was selected as one of the 10 best books of 2003 by the San Francisco Chronicle and one of the 10 best nonfiction books of the year by the Los Angeles Times. It also won, among other honors, a California Book Award and the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing.
Before joining the Drucker Institute, Wartzman spent two decades as a newspaper reporter, editor and columnist. He began his career at The Wall Street Journal, where he served in a variety of positions, including White House correspondent and founding editor of the paper’s weekly California section. He joined the Los Angeles Times in 2002 as business editor and, in that role, helped shape “The Wal-Mart Effect,” which won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting. Wartzman later became editor of the newspaper’s Sunday magazine, West, which under his leadership was named by the Missouri School of Journalism as the best newspaper supplement in America. Until recently, Wartzman was an Irvine senior fellow at the New America Foundation, a nonpartisan public policy think tank.
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