Book description
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.
ROGER HOERL leads the Applied Statistics Laboratory at GE Global
Research, which focuses on new product and service development within
each of the GE businesses. In 2006, he received the Coolidge
Fellowship from GE Global Research, honoring one scientist a year from
among the four global GE Research and Development sites for lifetime
technical achievement. Dr. Hoerl has authored five books in the areas
of statistics and business improvement, two book chapters, and over
thirty-five refereed journal articles.
RON SNEE is founder and President of Snee Associates, an authority on
designing and implementing improvement and cost reduction solutions
for a variety of organizational environments. Dr. Snee has an
outstanding record of leadership in process and organizational
improvement in a variety of industries including pharmaceutical,
biotech, clinical diagnostics, and telecommunications. Among his other
achievements, he is credited with leading the design of the first
company-wide continuous improvement curriculum for the global giant E.
I. DuPont de Nemours. He holds a host of awards and honors, has
coauthored four books, and published more than 200 articles on process
improvement, quality, management, and statistics.
