Statistical thinking: improving business performance

by Hoerl, Roger Wesley

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Title Statements

Full title :Statistical thinking : improving business performance / Roger Hoerl and Ronald D. Snee.

Summary

"How statistical thinking and methodology can help you make crucial business decisions. Straightforward and insightful, Statistical Thinking: Improving Business Performance, Second Edition, prepares you for business leadership by developing your capacity to apply statistical thinking to improve business processes. Unique and compelling, this book shows you how to derive actionable conclusions from data analysis, solve real problems, and improve real processes. Here, you'll discover how to implement statistical thinking and methodology in your work to improve business performance. Explores why statistical thinking is necessary and helpful. Provides case studies that illustrate how to integrate several statistical tools into the decision-making process. Facilitates and encourages an experiential learning environment to enable you to apply material to actual problems. With an in-depth discussion of JMP software, the new edition of this important book focuses on skills to improve business processes, including collecting data appropriate for a specified purpose, recognizing limitations in existing data, and understanding the limitations of statistical analyses"--

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2012
Edition:Second edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Place of Publication:Hoboken, New Jersey
Language:eng
Publication Date:2012

The Physical Object

Description:xxix, 511 pages : : illustrations ; : 27 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781118094778, 1118094778, 1118236858, 9781118236857, 1118223381, 9781118223383, 1118261852, 9781118261859
oclc:ocn749857701
LC Classification:HF1012
Dewey Decimal:658.4/033

pt. 1 Statistical Thinking -- ch. 1 Need for Business Improvement -- Today's Business Realities and the Need to Improve -- We Now Have Two Jobs: A Model for Business Improvement -- New Management Approaches Require Statistical Thinking -- Principles of Statistical Thinking -- Applications of Statistical Thinking -- Summary -- ch. 2 Statistical Thinking Strategy -- Case Study: The Effect of Advertising on Sales -- Case Study: Improvement of a Soccer Team's Performance -- Statistical Thinking Strategy -- Context of Statistical Thinking: Statistics Discipline as a SystemVariation in Business Processes -- Synergy between Data and Subject Matter Knowledge -- Dynamic Nature of Business Processes -- Summary -- Project Update -- ch. 3 Understanding Business Processes -- Examples of Business Processes -- SIPOC Model for Processes -- Identifying Business Processes -- Analysis of Business Processes -- Systems of Processes -- Measurement Process -- Summary -- Project Update -- pt. 2 Statistical Engineering: Frameworks and Basic Tools -- ch. 4 Statistical Engineering: Tactics to Deploy Statistical Thinking.

Statistical Engineering -- Case Study: Reducing Resin Output Variation -- Case Study: …