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A Six Sigma Approach to Sustainability : Continual Improvement for Social Responsibility

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Title: A Six Sigma Approach to Sustainability : Continual Improvement for Social Responsibility
Author: Andrea Hoffmeier, Holly A. Duckworth
ISBN: 0367144115 / 9780367144111
Format: Soft Cover
Pages: 248
Publisher: CRC Press
Year: 2019
Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
     
 
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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 family-owned business for nearly 1500 years.

With the 2010 publication of an international standard on social responsibility (ISO 26000), and increased attention to sustainability and sustainability reporting, many organizations today are heeding the call to operate with this standard in mind. However, once the guidelines are understood and the gaps measured, these same organizations often struggle during implementation.

Leveraging many decades of combined experience in Quality Management and Product Development, the authors of this seminal book provide a proven solution to help you turn information into action. Defining exactly what social responsibility means, A Six Sigma Approach to Sustainability introduces SOFAIR, a six-step methodology for achieving sustainability through social responsibility performance improvement. This rigorous methodology uses Six Sigma, and other process improvement methods, as a basis for maximizing the efficiency and effectiveness of your organization's social responsibility performance improvement effort.

The book explains and demonstrates the meaning of CISR® - continual improvement for social responsibility - and illustrates the six-step SOFAIR methodology with many examples. The authors explain how your existing organizational continual improvement efforts can be adapted to also focus on sustainability. Four case studies are provided that demonstrate the application of the methodology in manufacturing, healthcare, business processes, and everyday personal life. Finally, the authors provide 10 things you can do today as social responsibility action.

Kongo Gumi represents the author’s goal of sustainability, and prompts the question, "What will your organization look like, not in 5-10 years, but in fifteen centuries?" This book provides a way for you to take action to create a more sustainable environment where your customers, suppliers, employees, and communities are available for your organization for decades, and even centuries, to come.

  • Demonstrates the meaning of CISR® - continual improvement for social responsibility
  • Introduces the six-step SOFAIR methodology with examples
  • Illustrates rigorous problem solving and continual improvement methods with attention to: stakeholders, social responsibility subjects, business objectives, project focus, analysis, innovation and improvement, and sustainability reporting
  • Presents four case studies that illustrate implementation of the methodology in manufacturing, healthcare, business processes, and everyday personal life

Preface

Chapter 1 : Continual Improvement for Social Responsibility
Chapter 2 : The Story of Continual Improvement
Chapter 3 : The SOFAIR Method
Chapter 4 : How SOFAIR Is Deployed in an Organization
Chapter 5 : Examples of SOFAIR in Action
Chapter 6 : Taking Action

Appendix A : Glossary
Appendix B : Additional References for CISR Practitioners
Appendix C : References
Index

 
 
 
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