Customer Reviews:
An Industrial Engineer.......2000-04-21
The Memory Jogger is the ideal handbook for improving job-related procedures, systems, quality, and costs on a daily basis. It conveniently presents the tools in two categories: problem identification tools, and problem analysis tools. It also offers a technnique selection guide according to task. Each tools is presented along with three examples: manufacturing, service/administration, and daily-life situations. It is a very, very useful quick reference guide.
However, the upgraded version, "The Memory Jogger II", has been available for quite some time now, and would be a wiser choice.
Customer Reviews:
Great book!.......2007-02-20
Very good reference book! Will be very helpful to the ones who are interested in statistics.
Basic Statistics - Excellent book.......2006-09-15
I am process of getting my Black Belt certification through Air Academy Associates. I like the common sense approach to Basic Statistics.
Excellent Start for Getting the Basics of Continuous Improvement.......2006-08-30
Looking for a solid introduction to continuous improvement? This may be a better book to guide your effort than many introductory books. This book includes basic introduction to Design of Experiment, where most efforts and books would ignore in continuous improvement.
The best book to complement Six Sigma analysis.......2003-04-24
As a certified Black Belt, I have to perform statistical tests on diverse processes for both manufacturing and service industries.
I have found this book to be the best I know of to be my "desktop guide" when I have any doubt on the method or applicability of a test or tool.
I engourage any and all readers who are looking for a book to help them do Process Improvement or Six Sigma Process Improvement to get this book.
It is well worth the price.
Two thumbs up!!.......2002-12-11
This book is really great, I reccommend it!
Product Description
This Practical Guidebook is designed as a quick and easy-to-use reference to support your process-improvement activities. Read it when you or your team are working on an effort that is: stalled; unstructured; taking too long; in need of new ideas; or has failed in the past. In Continuous Improvement Tools Volume 1, seven popular planning, analysis, and interpretation tools were discusssed. Now in Volume 2, the authors continue the process by introducing eight additional tools (Tree Diagram, Pareto Chart, Sequence Flow Chart, Process Flow Chart, Scatter Diagram, Run Chart, Control Chart, and Histogram) that are used during the various stages of a quality-improvement effort. Volume 2 also features a highly understandable reading format that combines practical examples with concise explanations. Plus, forms and checklists at the end of each chapter help to answer the question: "Which tool should I use and why should I use it?" Everyone from frontline employees to executives will find the book's content accessible, practical, and full of ideas that can be applied immediately!
Customer Reviews:
Wonderful and portable idea book and reference.......2001-05-03
This slender little book is a handy desk guide that covers some important continuous process improvement tools. It gives a quick "how to" for the following tools that are the foundation of CPI: Tree, Pareto, Sequence Flow, Process Flow, Scatter, Run, Control and Histogram.
Granted, the run and control charts would merit a book unto themselves, but that misses the point of this book - it's a handy reference and idea book that takes up little briefcase space for consultants or desk space for anyone who is involved in CPI or measurement and analysis of any kind. I take mine with me when I am working on projects at client sites, and have found it invaluable when I am developing processes and procedures because it gives me ideas when I am writing the measurement sections of those documents.
I give it five stars for clear descriptions packed into a slim book and its thorough coverage of some of the most important tools available to a CPI practitioner or consultant.
Book Description
The School Portfolio Toolkit is a book and compact disc (CD) that includes over 300 tools, strategies, templates, and examples for use in building school portfolios and for planning, implementing, and evaluating continuous school improvement.
The Toolkit was written to support school personnel with the mechanics of putting together a school portfolio, as well as to offer processes and strategies to move whole school staffs into and through continuous improvement.
The tools in the Toolkit will help staffs create, implement, and maintain school portfolios and begin the journey of continuous improvement. Each chapter deals with one topic related to the school portfolio and comprehensive school improvement, with related documents and tools on the CD.
Customer Reviews:
What a Helpful Toolkit !!.......2003-01-29
As those in public education look toward the implementation of high stakes testing and the implementation of No Child Left Behind, it is imperative that data be used to show student progress.
Dr. Bernhardt shows what data are most useful and how the data can be used to help improve student achievement at all levels.
The tools on the CD are wonderful.
Book Description
These two volumes offer a commonsense approach to creating and sustaining quality-improvemnt efforts. Your process improvement problem-solving teams and self-managed work teams will function better with the tools and techniques presented in this book.
Book Description
Collect multiple forms of data and connect data to improved student achievement!
Are you looking for new ways to use data in the decision-making process? Are you seeking tools that provide better flow-through from data to improved student achievement? Have you ever considered including students in the data-to-improvement cycle? Schools recognize that data is an essential decision-making tool, but it requires teamwork and reflection to reap the maximum benefits. This guidebook offers practical collection and analysis methods and templates as well as tips for building trust and working together.
The Data Guidebook for Teachers and Leaders accentuates the importance of data collection of multiple types, not just from standardized tests, and analysis within any educational setting. In addition to addressing the practical aspects of data usage, the author presents innovative ideas for
- Introducing students to the data analysis cycle
- Helping students learn how data impacts student achievement
- Sharing day-to-day data within departments and schools to improve weekly test scores
- Making data and results accessible to all team members
Data becomes a dynamic tool for change when you learn how to incorporate it into your continuous improvement process.
Customer Reviews:
Great reference book!.......2007-01-10
This is a great reference book to have. It can relate to so many siutations and is very helpful.
Book Description
CEDAC( encompasses three tools for continuous systematic improvement: window analysis (for identifying problems), the CEDAC diagram (a modification of the classic "fishbone diagram," for analyzing problems and developing standards), and window development (for ensuring adherence to standards). This manual provides directions for setting up and using CEDAC. Sample forms included.
Book Description
This book, written by the author of the award-winning best-seller "Lean Manufacturing for the Small Shop," describes six sigma, what it is, and how it is used in smaller companies. While it concentrates on six sigma in the small shop environment, it shows the relationship between continuous improvement, lean, and quality. This book focuses on implementation for operators and team leaders, as well as managers and job shop owners. It explains how continuous improvement tools support each other and can accomplish what one or two tools (on their own) cannot. A special hands-on CD-ROM is included with this book, which can help make the DMAIC (Define, Measure and Analyze, Improve, Control) process easier for obtaining six-sigma quality.
Customer Reviews:
Six Sigma for the Small Shop is a winner.......2002-10-03
Gary Conner has the knack of making both complicated concepts and potentially dull reading so simple that this book is required reading for anyone seriously contemplating or implementing any of the continuous improvement tools available to us. His exposition of DMAIC (design, measure, analyze, improve and control) into specific tools with copious charts is worth the price of the book alone. Not only is there an index but a glossary and a list of suggested reading.
Of particular value is the presentation of tables about each of the many initiatives that show that it's relationship to Six Sigma, as well as who needs or uses it, cost estimates, strengths, limitations, process complexity, implementation time, additional resources and internet search key words and URLs.
Aside:
I have two quibbles:
1. The title may scare away larger shop folk who can gain as much value from this book as the small shop people
2. I would have liked to see more linkage to the engineering design function. Manufacturing and industrial engineering are important, but most of product cost and defect generation happens up front in the design.
Having voiced my quibbles, this book sits on my desk along with Gary's "lean manufacturing for the small shop" and I can now recommend a second book by this down to earth lean author.
Chairperson - Industrial, Manufacturing & Plasitcs/Composite.......2002-10-02
This book is an outstanding contribution to the Six Sigma effort, which allows the small shops to discover how all the elements of past and present improvement
processes fit together. Beginning with the history of the Industrial Revolution through the use of the six sigma practical tools, it explains the needs and how the tools dovetail nicely together.
Within this book's covers lay the applied use of six-sigma process improvement techniques, which reduce costs and give the practitioner, better understanding of processes and flow. By following the step-by-step process of define, measure, analyze, improve and control, hands-on problem solving is easily taught to everyone within an organization. The four appendixes plus the glossary completes a great reference book for any small and medium shop.
Being a past plant manager in small shops I see the high value of this book. The interactive CD makes the user a quick master in six sigma techniques. My plans are to use this as a text for my Six Sigma course at Sinclair Community College.
Thank you for this review opportunity.
David G. Meyer, PE
Sinclair Community College
Chair - IET, MFG, Plastics & Composites Engineering Technology
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A gem!.......2002-07-03
This is, without a doubt, one of the most useful and best written guides about problem solving and continuous tools you can buy, and here are some reasons why:
- It's formatted as a mini encyclopedia that covers seven categories of tools: (1) requirements and problem definition, (2) data gathering, (3) analysis, (4) ideas and options, (5) decision making, (6) planning, and (7) continuous improvement.
- Each tool is presented in a fixed format that includes What it Is, How to Use It, and Example.
- The layout and design makes finding information effortless and is highly visual.
You get 35 tools, ranging from the more common ones such as Pareto charts, SWOT analysis, cause and effect diagrams, to lesser know ones such as perception of performance grids and mind mapping. In addition, some of the tools are complex, such as customer-supplier agreements, time-cost and cost-benefit analyses, and team purpose analysis. I especially like the paired comparison technique and the complete treatment of planning tools, which includes work breakdown structures, critical path method, and planning tables. Another nice touch is the tool selection chart on page 12. This is one of the reasons that this short book is such a handy reference and easy to use. If you're interested in this book because you're getting involved in a continuous process improvement initiative I recommand that you also read "Continuous Process Improvement: Simplifying Work Flow Systems" by George D. Robson.
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- The New American Workplace
- The New Public Personnel Administration
- The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't
- The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't
- The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't
- The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal
- The Secret Garden (HarperClassics)
- The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
- The Toyota Product Development System: Integrating People, Process And Technology
- The User Is Always Right: A Practical Guide to Creating and Using Personas for the Web (VOICES)
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The Memory Jogger II
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