
Six SIgma for Transactions and Service
McGraw-Hill Professional (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 16. January 2005
Book
Hardback
558 pages
978-0-07-144330-2 (ISBN)
Description
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MAXIMIZE CUSTOMER-RELATED BUSINESS FUNCTIONS THROUGH SIX SIGMA
Six Sigma for Transactions and Service delivers a comprehensive roadmap to optimize customer-related business functions. Featuring how-to's for making systems such as customer billing, order processing, and call center management more cost-effective and truly "customer-centric," this reference provides the hands-on specifics required to create and implement self-sustaining -- even self-improving -- transactional and service strategies an practices.
Six Sigma for Transactions and Service provides:
A clear blueprint to money-saving, efficiency-enhancing service delivery and transaction processing
Service-Sector-specific Define, Measure, Analyze, Innovate, and Embed (DMAIE), and Define, Measure, Analyze, Design and Optimize (DMADO) methodologies
Innovative service operations design strategies aligned with corporate strategies
Guidance and expert tips from Six Sigma Master Black Belts and Black Belts
Valuable forms and scorecard
ASSURE SIX SIGMA QUALITY IN SERVICE AND TRANSACTIONS:
Transactional Quality Benchmarks Service Operations, Corporations, and Industries * Service Performance Indicators * The Service Crisis * Transactional Six Sigma Define and Develop * Measures and Trends * Analyze and Innovate * Embed * Designing for Transactional Services Axioms of Service Design * Customer-Driven Transactional Processes * Designing Transactional Processes * Optimize the Service Design to Ensure a Robust Service Package * Transactional Business * Human Capital * Implementing TSS * Six Sigma in Transactional Processes
After achieving Six Sigma improvements in manufacturing and design comes an equally complex challenge: implementing Six Sigma in a business's transactional and service sectors.
Different tools, terminology, frameworks, and measurements will clearly be needed -- this is why leading Six Sigma and service operations experts prepared this detail-rich roadmap. Six Sigma for Transactions and Services provides the step-by-step guidance needed to transform these costly, crucial -- and far too often highly inefficient -- business processes.
This guide shows exactly how to design and optimize procedures and performance in areas traditionally resistant to both investigation and change. Readers will find the tools they need to:
Develop quantitative assessments in hard-to-measure areas
Apply process thinking in service context
Apply new tools to find wasteful processes ripe for elimination
Develop customer-driven transactional processes
Build robustness into every aspect of the service package
Optimize the company's transactional design
Exceed customers expectations at reduced cost
Document cost reductions, efficiency improvements, and customer satisfaction
Six Sigma for Transactions and Service offers exciting new opportunities to those looking to optimize every aspect of a bu
MAXIMIZE CUSTOMER-RELATED BUSINESS FUNCTIONS THROUGH SIX SIGMA
Six Sigma for Transactions and Service delivers a comprehensive roadmap to optimize customer-related business functions. Featuring how-to's for making systems such as customer billing, order processing, and call center management more cost-effective and truly "customer-centric," this reference provides the hands-on specifics required to create and implement self-sustaining -- even self-improving -- transactional and service strategies an practices.
Six Sigma for Transactions and Service provides:
A clear blueprint to money-saving, efficiency-enhancing service delivery and transaction processing
Service-Sector-specific Define, Measure, Analyze, Innovate, and Embed (DMAIE), and Define, Measure, Analyze, Design and Optimize (DMADO) methodologies
Innovative service operations design strategies aligned with corporate strategies
Guidance and expert tips from Six Sigma Master Black Belts and Black Belts
Valuable forms and scorecard
ASSURE SIX SIGMA QUALITY IN SERVICE AND TRANSACTIONS:
Transactional Quality Benchmarks Service Operations, Corporations, and Industries * Service Performance Indicators * The Service Crisis * Transactional Six Sigma Define and Develop * Measures and Trends * Analyze and Innovate * Embed * Designing for Transactional Services Axioms of Service Design * Customer-Driven Transactional Processes * Designing Transactional Processes * Optimize the Service Design to Ensure a Robust Service Package * Transactional Business * Human Capital * Implementing TSS * Six Sigma in Transactional Processes
After achieving Six Sigma improvements in manufacturing and design comes an equally complex challenge: implementing Six Sigma in a business's transactional and service sectors.
Different tools, terminology, frameworks, and measurements will clearly be needed -- this is why leading Six Sigma and service operations experts prepared this detail-rich roadmap. Six Sigma for Transactions and Services provides the step-by-step guidance needed to transform these costly, crucial -- and far too often highly inefficient -- business processes.
This guide shows exactly how to design and optimize procedures and performance in areas traditionally resistant to both investigation and change. Readers will find the tools they need to:
Develop quantitative assessments in hard-to-measure areas
Apply process thinking in service context
Apply new tools to find wasteful processes ripe for elimination
Develop customer-driven transactional processes
Build robustness into every aspect of the service package
Optimize the company's transactional design
Exceed customers expectations at reduced cost
Document cost reductions, efficiency improvements, and customer satisfaction
Six Sigma for Transactions and Service offers exciting new opportunities to those looking to optimize every aspect of a bu
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
50 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 163 mm
Thickness: 47 mm
Weight
912 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-07-144330-2 (9780071443302)
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Content
Part I. Service Quality benchmarksChapter 1: Roles of Services and Transactions in Global and U.S. Economy (Services -- The Key to Future Competitive Advantage)Chapter 2: Quality in Services and TransactionsChapter 3: Service Performance Indicators (If It Is Important, It Must Be Measured)Chapter 4: The Service CrisisPart II. Transactional Six SigmaChapter 5: IntroductionChapter 6: Define and DevelopChapter 7: Measure and TrendsChapter 8: Analyze and InnovateChapter 9: EmbedPart III. Designing for Transactional ServicesChapter 10. Axioms of Service DesignChapter 11: Customer-Driven Transactional ProcessesChapter 12: Designing Transactional Services for Six SigmaChapter 13: Design and Optimize Service to Ensure Robust Service PackageChapter 14: Implementing Six Sigma in Service OrganizationsChapter 15: Six Sigma in ServicesChapter 16: Six Sigma in OutsourcingChapter 17: Managing Human CapitalAPPENDIX REFERENCESINDEX