![]() | A Six Sigma Approach to Sustainability: Continual Improvement for Social Responsibility Subjects: Economics Finance Business & Industry; Engineering & Technology; Business Management and Accounting; Industrial Engineering & Manufacturing; Production Engineering; Quality Control & Reliability; Manufacturing Engineering; Production Operations & Information Management; In an age when most business plans extend only to the next quarterly reporting period, the authors of this book propose an audaciously longer view of future planning. Reaching beyond the modern five or ten-year strategic plan, the authors take a cue from Kongo Gumi, a Japanese construction company launched in 578 AD that managed to thrive as a fami Holly A. Duckworth is a certified Six Sigma Master Black Belt with over 30 years of experience in manufacturing. Holly leads organizations on the pursuit for process improvement. She has over 2000 hours as a classroom instructor. She is a volunteer leader for the American Society for Quality and their Social Responsibility Organization. Holly has coauthored two other books: My Six Sigma Workbook (Paton Professional Publishing) and Social Responsibility: Failure Mode Effects and Analysis (CRC Press). |
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