Management Articles by Ronald D. Snee

• Improving Business Processes with Six Sigma   view details
  Power Point presentation for the Quality and Productivity Research Conference.

• Focus on Improvement not Training   view details
  : 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   view details
  "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 manag

• Business Needs Determine What Black Belts Need to Know   view details
  Comments on article by Roger Hoerl. "Black Belts, therefore, need tools that enable them to rapidly create improvements that produce significant bottom line results."

• A Holistic View of Six Sigma   view details
  Sample chapter from their excellent book, Six Sigma Beyond the Factory Floor.

• Redesigning the Introductory Statistics Course   view details
  

• Improving Team Effectiveness   view details
  "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 f

• Eight Essential Tools   view details
  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   view details
  Excerpt from their book, Leading Six Sigma

• The Hard Part: Holding Improvement Gains   view details
  "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

• Robust Experimental Strategies for Improving Upstream Productivity   view details
  Two methods can be used to increase the speed of upstream development, which in turn speeds up the development of process understanding: * using Design of Experiments (DOE)-based strategies to design, analyze, and interpret experiments, resulting in getting better information in a timely fashion * using Lean principles to streamline the availability of information, materials, equipment, measurements, and personnel for the experimental process, thereby accelerating the flow of the experimental process.

• Robust Experimental Strategies for Improving Upstream Productivity   view details
  The solution to this problem is to use Lean principles to streamline the processes and procedures used to do the experimental work. Eliminating complexity and wasted time and effort results in experimentation being speeded up and scientists having more time to do creative work.