Implementing six sigma for improving business processes at an automotive bank

Handbook on Business Process Management 1: Introduction, Methods, and Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 393-416

  Johannsen, Florian ^a   Leist, Susanne ^a   Zellner, Gregor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY; FINANCE; QUALITY MANAGEMENT; SIX SIGMA; WORK SIMPLIFICATION;

BUSINESS PROCESS; BUSINESS PROCESS IMPROVEMENT; FINANCIAL SERVICE; PROTOTYPICAL IMPLEMENTATION; QUALITY TECHNIQUES; SIX SIGMA APPROACHES;

PROCESS ENGINEERING;

EID: 84943397684     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-45100-3_17     Document Type: Chapter

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