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Articles by Ron Snee - Six Sigma and more
- The Hard Part: Holding Improvement Gains by Ronald D. Snee, Sep 2006
"In organizations of all kinds, whether they practice Six Sigma, lean, Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award criteria, total quality management or some other improvement methodology, sustaining improvement gains proves to be far more difficult than many think... One of the strongest spurs to maintaining momentum and sustaining the gains of an improvement initiative
comes from the effect achieving significant, measurable benefits has on the culture. People like to succeed. When they see tangible results, they are eager to repeat the process."
- A Holistic View of Six Sigma by Roger Hoerl and Ronald Snee, Dec 2004
Sample chapter from their excellent book, Six Sigma Beyond the Factory Floor.
- Eight Essential Tools by Ronald D. Snee, Dec 2003
8 essentional Six Sigma tools: process maps, cause and effect matrices (CE), failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA), measurement system analysis (MSA), process capability studies, multi-vari studies, design of experiments (DOE) and process control plans.
- Leading Six Sigma: Launching the Initiative by Roger W. Hoerl and Ronald D. Snee, Nov 2002
Excerpt from their book, Leading Six Sigma
- Improving Business Processes with Six Sigma by Soren Bisgaard, Roger Hoerl and Ron Snee, Jun 2002
Power Point presentation for the Quality and Productivity Research Conference.
- Business Needs Determine What Black Belts Need to Know by Ronald D. Snee, Oct 2001
Comments on article by Roger Hoerl. "Black Belts, therefore, need tools that enable them to rapidly create improvements that produce significant bottom line results."
- Focus on Improvement not Training by Ronald D. Snee, Mar 2001
: How Six Sigma Can Do It Right. Word format. The paper proposes the "role of training is to build the skills and knowledge needed to improve the performance of the organization."
- Impact of Six Sigma on Quality Engineering by Ronald D. Snee, Jan 2000
"Specifically, Snee notes that for quality engineers and other quality professionals to be successful in this new environment, they must develop new skills including leadership and other soft skills, business acumen, and an understanding of both the management and technical issues involved." published in Quality Engineering.
- Improving Team Effectiveness by Ronald D. Snee, Kevin H. Kelleher and Sue Reynard, Apr 1997
"Teams are now an established approach for getting work done, and organizations have learned important strategies for making teams effective. But barriers to team progress still exist, many of them the result of poor or ineffective management strategies for coordinating the efforts of many types of teams across an organization. Examination of selected case studies illustrates how effective use of teams is a skill that can be learned, practiced, and improved by managers and employees alike."
- Redesigning the Introductory Statistics Course by Ronald D. Snee and Roger Hoerl, Jul 1995
More Six Sigma articles - articles by Roger Hoerl.
Books by Ron Snee
