Written by two experts who have dedicated their careers to quality improvement, Escape the Improvement Trap: Five Ingredients Missing in Most Improvement Recipes separates itself from other improvement books by looking at why most companies rarely achieve anything more than an average level of improvement maturity. They identify five critical ingredients required for successful improvement: 1. A meaningful business value proposition and strategy that drives key improvement actions2. An engaging environment where people can do their best work3. A focus on meaningful metrics while avoiding irrelevant details4. Process improvement efforts that maximize cross-functional process performance and foster deeper process understanding, innovation, and execution of best work practices5. An executive mindset that focuses on customer value, people development, process performance, and business improvement outcomes, not solely on savings The authors consider a variety of situations at Independence Enterprise, a fictional company, based on their own very real experiences. They elaborate on the principles that should come into play, look at what Independence Enterprise is doing right and wrong, and suggest deployment actions to help you apply the principles to your own organization.

Written by two experts who have dedicated their careers to quality improvement, Escape the Improvement Trap: Five Ingredients Missing in Most Improvement Recipes separates itself from other improvement books by looking at why most companies rarely achieve anything more than an average level of improvement maturity. They identify five critical ingredients required for successful improvement: 1. A meaningful business value proposition and strategy that drives key improvement actions 2. An engaging environment where people can do their best work 3. A focus on meaningful metrics while avoiding irrelevant details 4. Process improvement efforts that maximize cross-functional process performance and foster deeper process understanding, innovation, and execution of best work practices 5. An executive mindset that focuses on customer value, people development, process performance, and business improvement outcomes, not solely on savings The authors consider a variety of situations at Independence Enterprise, a fictional company, based on their own very real experiences. They elaborate on the principles that should come into play, look at what Independence Enterprise is doing right and wrong, and suggest deployment actions to help you apply the principles to your own organization.

Move Six Sigma Savings to Your Bottom Line.

. Most business process improvement activities do not yield the PAndL dollar savings impact that executives expect to see. If this is a challenge in your organization, you need "Six Sigma Financial Tracking and Reporting." This operating manual shows Master Black Belts, Black Belts, Project Champions, Sponsors, and Six Sigma and Lean Manufacturing/Enterprise practitioners how to increase the yield of savings dollars that hit the bottom line. This is a major challenge for any improvement initiative..

. Loaded with advanced yet practical approaches, leadership pearls, and analytical solutions you can use to get more out of your improvement activities, this book: . Clarifies why some savings do not have a PAndL impact. Explains the interplay between Six Sigma savings and business activities. Makes it easier for operations managers, accountants, and engineers to speak the same language.

. Success stories and actions taken at Motorola, Agilent, Allied Signal, General Electric, a private healthcare foundation, and other organizations will hold your interest and provide a steady stream of innovative ideas that will demystify accounting procedures, clarify the role of leadership, and gain more alignment inside the organization. .

. Achieve a clear line of sight from project savings to financial accounts:
. Model for getting savings into the PAndL * Designing bridge PAndL model structure--Define in DMAIC * Tracking and communicating bridge metrics--Measure in DMAIC * Identifying the things that are "off track"--Analyze in DMAIC * Planning corrections to keep "on track: --Improve in DMAIC * Adjusting the support systems to sustain thePAndL bridge--Control in DMAIC * Getting the savings in struggling or transitioning industries.

. As Six Sigma and Lean Enterprise techniques continue to evolve and become more engrained in business, it is harder to track the impact of savings on a project basis. Through the use of case studies, worked-out examples, and benchmarking techniques, this team of experts from Motorola University helps you to put the right infrastructure in place for project identification, project scoping, and financial reporting. You will be able to: . Achieve a clear line of sight from project savings to financial accounts. Prove the net worth of your improvement projects to your CFO. Find ways to justify cost avoidance on your bottom line. Examples of how to financially track Six Sigma projects. Establish metrics that represent reality. Simplify metrics you use to measure project impact.

. With this powerful resource you will learn how to get reported roject savings into the PAndL, simplify financial reporting, and shepherd projects to successful completion. With this book, your Six Sigma or Lean Manufacturing team can accomplish more projects each year, achieve a superior ROI, and quickly surpass your competitors following traditional improvement approaches..