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Summary: Every Bit As Good As The Original Book...
Review: A few people have written that they were disappointed in this book in comparison to the original "The Six Sigma Way." However, I couldn't disagree more. This is a terrific book. Where "The Six Sigma Way" served as a comprehensive foundation into the fundamentals of Six Sigma and offered a number of case studies, "The Fieldbook" is a no-nonsense roll-up-your-sleeves guide to implementation. The Bottom Line? If you want an overview of Six Sigma, buy a copy of "The Six Sigma Way." However, if you are a member of the management team (or a black belt) overseeing a Six Sigma program, "The Fieldbook" is definately the book for you.
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Summary: Every Bit As Good As The Original Book...
Review: A few people have written that they were disappointed in this book in comparison to the original "The Six Sigma Way." However, I couldn't disagree more. This is a terrific book. Where "The Six Sigma Way" served as a comprehensive foundation into the fundamentals of Six Sigma and offered a number of case studies, "The Fieldbook" is a no-nonsense roll-up-your-sleeves guide to implementation. The Bottom Line? If you want an overview of Six Sigma, buy a copy of "The Six Sigma Way." However, if you are a member of the management team (or a black belt) overseeing a Six Sigma program, "The Fieldbook" is definately the book for you.
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Summary: The Six Sigma Way Team Fieldbook -- The Best In Class!
Review: Congratulations to Peter S. Pande, Robert P. Neuman, Ph.D., and Roland R. Cavanagh, P.E., who have authored an excellent Six Sigma Implementation Guide and Reference Book: The Six Sigma Way Team Fieldbook.The combined clarity and quality of the work have resulted in an outstanding and important contribution to the popular Six Sigma business management strategy and process improvement tactics. The Six Sigma Way Team Fieldbook offers great insight, knowledge, and practical step-by-step implementation methods that are presented with the clarity of a reference book. The Six Sigma Way Team Fieldbook, along with the prior book by the authors: The Six Sigma Way, are both required reading and foundation sources for all Six Sigma libraries. Six Sigma practitioners will be most delighted with the book. The easy to understand framework will also make the current work very valuable to business executives, managers, employees and anyone interested in the latest best business practice. Thank you Peter, Robert and Roland for sharing the wealth of your Six Sigma implementation experience in the Six Sigma Way Team Fieldbook. Marc St.James
January 6, 2002
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Summary: Doesn't Measure Up
Review: Having read their first book, The Six Sigma Way, I was looking forward to reading this follow up companion book, The Six Sigma Way Team Fieldbook. While the book contains some valuable information and tips, the book is plagued with inaccuracies and errors. I expected more from authors who are writing about Six Sigma. Their credibility in writing about Six Sigma is called into question by the publication of a book with so many obvious errors. They can 'talk the talk' but they did not 'walk the walk' when it comes to their own book.
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Summary: Just right for Green Belt training
Review: Lets analyze this book deeply. Actually this book is totally useless. Here the authors dig deeper into the magic, the sophistry, of Six Sigma. Please tell us more practitioners of this blind faith. This book details how to create the teams needed for Six Sigma. First it explains the role of the 'black belt' and 'master black belt'. We're not given insights into why a business model for grown ups has to treat us all like children, having teams and coaches and lots of 'feel good' language invovled. How bout a chapter on firing lazy employees? How bout a chapter on what to do when 10% of the items coming off the line are defective? No, that would be too realistic. No wholesome language, Just wizardry. When every single item coming off the line is defective we must sic the teams on it and analyze the issues, the diversity, the feel goodies of it. How bout just firing every single person on the line? This book is pure sophistry detailing a fad, a flavor of the week approach developed at GE and now appearing in every book in the world on business.
Business existed before Six Sigma and it will exist when this flawed system is gone.
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Summary: Black belt, here I show you the book of idols
Review: Lets analyze this book deeply. Actually this book is totally useless. Here the authors dig deeper into the magic, the sophistry, of Six Sigma. Please tell us more practitioners of this blind faith. This book details how to create the teams needed for Six Sigma. First it explains the role of the 'black belt' and 'master black belt'. We're not given insights into why a business model for grown ups has to treat us all like children, having teams and coaches and lots of 'feel good' language invovled. How bout a chapter on firing lazy employees? How bout a chapter on what to do when 10% of the items coming off the line are defective? No, that would be too realistic. No wholesome language, Just wizardry. When every single item coming off the line is defective we must sic the teams on it and analyze the issues, the diversity, the feel goodies of it. How bout just firing every single person on the line? This book is pure sophistry detailing a fad, a flavor of the week approach developed at GE and now appearing in every book in the world on business.
Business existed before Six Sigma and it will exist when this flawed system is gone.
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Summary: Buy in conjunction with The Six Sigma Way!
Review: The Six Sigma Way Team Field Book is a must have for anyone that is seriously studying Six Sigma. It gives you practical solutions for every phase of Six Sigma. This book goes wonderfully with The Six Sigma Way. If you work in a company that is implementing Six Sigma, or you're trying to advance your career to a Black Belt or Master Black Belt position - buy this book. Buy both books! Outstanding tools, superb readability, a wealth of knowledge at your fingertips!
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Summary: Buy in conjunction with The Six Sigma Way!
Review: The Six Sigma Way Team Field Book is a must have for anyone that is seriously studying Six Sigma. It gives you practical solutions for every phase of Six Sigma. This book goes wonderfully with The Six Sigma Way. If you work in a company that is implementing Six Sigma, or you're trying to advance your career to a Black Belt or Master Black Belt position - buy this book. Buy both books! Outstanding tools, superb readability, a wealth of knowledge at your fingertips!
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Summary: Just right for Green Belt training
Review: The Six Sigma Way Team Fieldbook is an excellent companion to the original Six Sigma Way. I'm using it as a primary textbook in the Green Belt course at the college where I teach. The Fieldbook does a good job of laying out the "nuts and bolts" process of attacking a problem and making improvements. The book is a little light in some of the more techinical areas, specifically in the Analysis Stage of the DMAIC model. That's where I come in as the course instuctor. I supplement the Fieldbook with the QCI CSSBB Primer and use MiniTab software for statistical analysis. It all blends together, and is held together, by the very well written descriptions of DMAIC methodologies in the Team Fieldbook. This book is exactly what it is intended to be -- A Team Fieldbook for Six Sigma practitioners. Used with the guidance from an experienced Six Sigma practitioner (Black Belt), it is an excellent tool for both training and basic reference.
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Summary: Great source of information for the practictioner
Review: This book is the one book for someone who is joining their first six sigma team. It will give you a feel for the tools and methodology that you will be exposed to and provides handy references of forms, metrics and best practices if you are requested to complete a task in a six sigma project. The material is very well organized and summarized for usage as an ongoing team resource.
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