A Magnificent Journey to Excellence: Sixteen Years of Six SIGMA at Cummins Inc. Strodtbeck III George K.

This book presents a model of organization transformation success. The model is illustrated through description and analysis of an actual, two-decade, highly successful, global enterprise transformation Six Sigma program at a Fortune 200 company: Cummins, Inc. The model framework comprises a series of S-Curves (maturity curves) of planning and execution activities phased over time.

The authors completely explain what was accomplished and the lessons learned from a 16-year deployment of Six Sigma at Cummins.Acts as a benchmark for those organizations interested in pursuing primarily a continuous improvement Lessons learned from the model and company case study are completely transferrable to other organizational culture, improvement and innovation transformation settings.This insightful book:Documents a firsthand account of a successful transformation.