Design for Six Sigma : A Roadmap for Product Development

Book Description

Here's the book that clearly and logically answers the complex question quality managers and product developers face almost every day: WHICH PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT TOOLS SHOULD I USE AND WHEN?

This much-needed, well-written roadmap for robust, efficient product development features:
* All the coverage needed to implement six sigma in any manufacturing concern
* A complete review of both traditional and contemporary design methods
* Systems discussed include: DOE (Design Of Experiment), Taguchi Method, QFD (Quality Function Deployment), Axiomatic Design, and TRIZ (Theory for Inventive Problem-Solving)
* Practical examples to highlight important elements of each system
* A unique multi-systems approach to designing products, incorporating the traditional and contemporary methods discussed, detailing how and when to use them
* Valuable assistance when preparing for certification exams

Customer Reviews:

Worth the buy!.......2004-04-02

I have not found such a comprehensive book for design of six sigma. I started using this book for advanced experimental design and taguchi methods, but ended understanding the complete roadmap for design of six sigma. The systems approach allows an enthusiast reader to start anywhere, without having to spend time refering back to earlier chapters. The relatively newer trends as TRIZ and axiomatic design have also been nicely dealt with.
Overall, this is a very nice and easy read book, with excellent and well defined examples. A must for everyone who wants a quick refresher on the design principles of six sigma.

A book serves all your needs.......2004-04-02

This is an outstanding DFSS book for production development. It contains integrated information and some of which you could hardly find anywhere else, thus with one book in hand, you have all the tools to get to your destination. This is also a easy to read book providing the reader with a solid understanding- Concepts are clearly defined, real world examples/ case studies are fully described and the chapters are well organized. It can serve as a textbook for students/beginners and also can serve as a handbook for experienced engineers.
The title says it all- this is a roadmap for you to find the way correctly and easily. I am reading the book right now, and the book is really beneficial to me.

Full of information and errors.......2004-03-30

This is a book with a lot of information. Each chapter can be used as a starting point for a specific six sigma technique. However, this is the worst edited book I have ever read. You can hardly find one page without errors/typos.

A matchless guide.......2003-08-03

While the concept of six-sigma is a very popular one, it is not often that one can find such a comprehensive yet clearly-written volume devoted to the most important topics of six-sigma. A book that contains so much information and not just hot air is especially hard to find. Yang and El-Haik have successfully written one of the most impressive and useful reads I have ever encountered within this field. Especially intriguing and novel concept of TRIZ. A very worthwhile book, in any case.

Application Oriented.......2003-07-01

In recent times, there has been a lot of talk and hype about DFSS with very little substance thus far--until this one! I found the book an easy read, application oriented and a relatively prescritive approach to apply DFSS for products, processes and/or services. The sections on TRIZ and Axiomatic Design expose the opportunities largely untapped in the design world today. A must read book for organizations serious about Six Sigma--whether they are focused on delivering worldclass products and services to their customers or designing processes to run world class business operations--a thumbs up all the way!!

Average customer rating:

good
Change of Pace
An excellent resource.

Engineering Economic Analysis
Donald G. Newnan , Ted G. Eschenbach , and Jerome P. Lavelle
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Now in a ninth edition, Engineering Economic Analysis offers comprehensive coverage of financial and economic decision-making for engineering projects, with an emphasis on problem solving, life cycle costs, and the time value of money. The spreadsheet material from the previous edition has been expanded, allowing students to create and analyze more realistic cash-flow models. The authors' concise, accessible writing style and practical emphasis make this text ideal for undergraduate engineering economy courses. Features of the Ninth Edition BLNew pedagogical features include: --Chapter-opening vignettes --Chapter objectives BLThe interior design will improve readability, generate student interest, and facilitate comprehension of the material. BLA new chapter has been added: Chapter 18, Accounting and Engineering Economy. BLChapter 10, Probability and Uncertainty, has been completely rewritten to emphasize how to make good choices by considering the uncertainty that is part of every engineering economy application. BLChapter 13, Replacement Analysis, has been rewritten to clarify the comparison of existing assets with newer alternatives. BLAppendix 7A, Difficulties Solving for an Interest Rate, has been thoroughly revised to use the power of spreadsheets to solve problems. BLEnd-of-chapter problems are reorganized and updated throughout. BLA companion website is available: http://www.oup.com/us/engineeringeconomy. Enhanced Student Support Packaged with every copy of the text: BLStudy Guide, by Edward Wheeler BLCD featuring interactive ExcelRG spreadsheets and tutorials Enhanced Instructor Support BLCD containing exam files by Meenakshi Sundaram, ExcelRG spreadsheets, and PowerPointRG slides BLSolutions Manual

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good.......2007-02-07

it is good book come with student guide with the half price, good deal thank you amazon

Change of Pace.......2006-11-10

This book explores a whole different side of chemical engineering. Useful as a reference but some of the problems are extremely difficult. Overall good book

An excellent resource........2006-03-24

This is a well written text on the subject with the subject matter well presented. Another feature is the CD. Excellent spreadsheets.

Modern Systems Analysis and Design (4th Edition) (World Student)

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"Just the facts ma'am"
Expect a textbook, not a real "how to" lesson
It's OK
Extremely thorough treatment of Systems Analysis...
Good S.A.D Book

Modern Systems Analysis and Design (4th Edition) (World Student)
Jeffrey A. Hoffer , Joey F. George , and Joseph S. Valacich
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Complex, challenging, and stimulating, this book addresses information system analysis and design;; it is full of information that shows the organizational process that a team of business and systems professionals use to develop and maintain computer-based information systems. It stresses the importance of responding to and anticipating problems through innovative uses of information technology. The book provides an excellent foundation for systems development, then goes on to making the business case, analysis, design, implementation and maintenance. For future systems analysts, or for those information technology that need a great resource for implementing new ideas and strategies for success.

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"Just the facts ma'am".......2007-09-12

This book is a difficult read. Most writers infuse something of a personality into their writing, even a textbook. I read a lot of books, mostly non-fiction (programming books, networking books) with some fiction thrown in here and there. The authors may know about the subject and clearly they do, but I found myself reading the text in a monitone voice and my eyes glazing over every couple of sentences. Thats because each sentence is just another fact, freeze dried and stuck next to another fact and eventually you get a very wordy paragraph. Add them all together and you get pages and pages of facts.

I felt like someone took a vacuum and sucked out all of the life out of the text. Seriously, I was tempted to look at the preface to see if the authors added the instructions to "just add water before reading". It really is that dry.

If that is your reading style, then this book is for you. I couldn't read more than a couple of pages before having to take a break.

Expect a textbook, not a real "how to" lesson.......2007-01-26

I used this book for an online course and I really felt like I was slogging through it. Obviously it's a textbook, but there are probably books out there that get to the point in fewer words. Most chapters are 30-50 pages long, and though some of the examples are helpful, overall the impact of the material is lost in paragraphs that never end. I would say if you aren't in a course that is using this text as a supplement, buy something else. The examples aren't good enough to give you a sense of database structure or systems diagrams without some real world comparison.

It's OK.......2006-03-03

The data itself is fine. It does explain the information in an understandable way.

Unfortunately, the font is tiny to make up for the large parts of information in the margins. Also, there is a slight shine to the paper itself which gives a glare when reading the text.

Extremely thorough treatment of Systems Analysis..........2005-07-13

This summer, I took a class in which we read this entire book. Yes, all 600+ pages of text (thankfully we weren't tested on the index). This HUGE book presents a very thorough treament of the Systems Development Life Cycle and the profession of Systems Analysis. From Project Planning to System Maintenance, hardly a detail gets shunned.

The book overall emphasizes the traditional SDLC, but weaves in some discussion of newer methodologies such as: Extreme Programming, Object Oriented design, CASE tools, and other agile methodologies. And if anyone wants to know what a Systems Analyst does day to day on the job, Appendix 1 spells it out pretty thoroughly. Anyone thinking of becoming a Systems Analyst should at least read this appendix, if not the entire book.

The book doesn't emphasize customer service to a great degree. As a working Systems Analyst, I find that customer service skills come in handy every single day. Appendix 1 does mention this skill, but not in an overly detailed manner. Information Systems in general deemphasizes the customer side of things ("User error!!!" still gets mockingly shouted across many help desks and support centers), which accounts for some of the problems that the industry as a whole faces (sometimes we're a little too easy to outsource). So a little more on the importance of customer service might have improved the book.

In the end, this book is a textbook. The going gets rough in many places as details pile upon details. But to understand some of the complexities of system development, a detailed approach probably represents the best way to go. So if you're looking for pleasure reading, look elsewhere. But if you want a detailed, granular, sometimes heady, complex treatment of the analysis side of Systems Development, this book offers more than you'll need for the traditional approach to the SDLC. Those looking for details on XP or OOP should look elsewhere.

Good S.A.D Book.......2005-05-13

I used this book to learn system analysis and design while taking graduate course. The book is well-written and the layout is pretty good. The authors broke down the information in such way you can understand easily. The book also has some exercises that help you practice what you learn. I kept the book and plan to use it a reference. I will recommend it if you are serious about learning System Analysis and Design.

Production and Operations Analysis with Student CD

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very applied book

Production and Operations Analysis with Student CD
Steven Nahmias
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This text provides a survey of the analytical methods used to support the functions of production and operations management. This latest edition continues to bring the most thorough coverage of cutting-edge quantitative models used in operations, while presenting it in a clean, easy to understand fashion. There are many new problems both solved and unsolved for students to comprehend the quantitative material of the book. Furthermore, we have enhanced the technology package of this book to have more applied learning of concepts and skills for students. Lastly, technology, such as the internet, ecommerce, etc has been added to reflect the changes in how business is conducted. This text reflects Steve Nahmias' extensive teaching background and experience in both business and engineering schools.

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very applied book.......2007-10-17

This books is one of the most complete books in Production matters. It has good theory on production and operations, and the applications to real life problems is impressive. Good for students, professors and professionals.

History: Fiction or Science? (Chronology, No. 1)

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History: Fiction or Science? (Chronology, No. 1)
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Recorded history is a finely-woven magic fabric of intricate lies about events predating the sixteenth century. There is not a single piece of evidence that can be reliably and independently traced back earlier than the eleventh century. This book details events that are substantiated by hard facts and logic, and validated by new astronomical research and statistical analysis of ancient sources.

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Calculations are only as good as your numbers.......2007-08-03

Yes, we can all agree that mainstream history is nearly 100% BS due to politics, economics, ego, problems with dating techniques, and various conspiracies. Agreed. But, I've been researching the distinct possibility that human history (in terms of civilizations) are much more ancient than we've been told, so coming across this book was very interesting to me. I wondered how Fomenko could be wrong (if at all) because he is very persuasive in his presentations. Then it dawned on me. If at previous times in prehistory, due to the various catastrophies that are well documented (comets, asteroids, planetary disruptions, plasma discharge, pole reversals, etc) the Earth was in a different position in relation to the sun, different tilt on its axis, different orbit, different rotation (in terms of velocity and DIRECTION), and the continents were in different positions, then would this not cause the ancients to see the sky (constellations) differently? In other words, is Fomenko making erronious assumptions about the physics of the Earth in pre-history, which then corrupt his data with regards to dating the relevant astrology? The last event to seriously disrupt our planet occured roughly 3500 years ago, according to other good researchers, so is it possible Fomenko has been confused by this? The vastly different physics of our planet in the not so distant past may explain this confusion, which is not to say the "mainstream" version of history is correct; on the contrary. I am not an expert in these fields, but wanted to see if this idea could spark discussion.

Pants on fire?.......2007-07-19

Will people ever read before spamming? Yes, Jesuits could not rewrite world history alone, they had help. Anyway, Dr Prof Acad A.Fomenko does not point to jesuits as the driving force of world wide history manipulation in published volumes 1,2,3;, actually he barely mentions the poor devils. Check it with 'Search inside' feature, please. China is rarely mentioned either, in fact, Dr Fomenko is completely eurocentric. Right, his theory contradicts all mainstream schools of history, because in their actual state they are all built on blatantly erroneus chronology. You don't need a mysterious cabal (conspiracy) to falsify history, the falsification is its modus operandi. It is inherent to history(ians) to falsify (distort) events, as it is inherent to humans to boast as it is inherent to power (authority) to legimize itself by referrring to glorious past made to its own order. Dr Prof Fomenko and team have identified scores of instances of such manipulation in Russian, European, etc.. history, and delivered valid statistical proof thereof. His own 'reconstruction' is completely another story. Forget c14 as a valid method of dating. W.Libby has initially discovered a brilliant method of INDEPENDENT dating. Too bad, c14 method has become a joke after a forced marrige with dendrochronology with consensual chronological scale inbuilt. Radiocarbon method can't stand blind tests, but is so very productive as a rubberstamp.

Accepted History & Chronology Must Be Changed. .......2007-04-09

There is no doubt that history as most know it is a sham, & institution's version of History both University & Church is fradulent & inaccurate. Everything was established with an agenda, The real "Dark Ages" are now when we have access to incredible amounts of information past authorities & more important 'common folk' didn't have but our institutions & educators are slow to evolve because of what has ignorantly & arrogantly been taught for too long. This is on many subjects not just Chronology.

For anyone to question "Why would a Mathematician have anything credible to say of History?" The answer is from Dr. Fomenko's preface in the book: "It would be worthwhile to remind the reader that in the XVI-XVII century Chronology was considered to be a subdivision of Mathematics." These volumes could possibly be some of the most important works to date & should be read by everyone with an interest in History, especially professors & educators who have a duty to the public. I have read both books & must say that 'Chronology 1' has some very eye opening & revolutionary information. Even if these volumes are part true the implications are profound & opens the doors to further investigations & questions which must be done. I speak several different lanquages & must say the logic Dr. Fomenko uses with "inflection" of words & words being read from left to right in one region & right to left in another then written backwards, the removal of vowels & get down to basics of words, or different cities & locations having the same name etc. is correct. Vowel usage has always been optional & varied, actually complicating linquistics & study. The first thing one has to understand is that words never had a fixed spelling in history like we do now, the spelling of words was mutable & regional, as well as names & titles of people were vast, varied & changed, NOTHING WAS FIXED or understood linear. Matters of Life & Death as well as financial profiteering yesterday & today were & are made with ignorant, illogical & conspiratorial views of history & reality, it's time people get closer to the Truth & society collectively grow up.

Very Interesting.......2007-03-07

It is a good proposal and I believe it will mature into something even better in the future. I think it deserves to be read.

History as Science Fiction.......2007-01-10

Anatoly Fomenko has written a very intriguing book, full of pictures, charts, and computer 'proof' of his thesis: backwards of AD900 we don't really know what happened or when. Between AD900 and AD1600 there is more certainty, but there is still a lot of fuzzy ground, and things don't get reliable until we get past the 1600's where the printing press made it very difficult for the perpetrators of this timeline manipulation to change anything that had been committed to print. The Dark Ages did not happen. Books were burned for a reason. One organization has doubled the actual length of its existence by expanding the real chronology. Read why.

I had always wondered why Christ died about AD33 and yet men waited until the 11th century to form the Knights Templar, the Cathars, etc and go after the Holy Land by force. Why the 1000 year gap? Turns out there wasn't more than a 10-12 year gap and he proves it using astronomy. This also implies that the planet is not as old as we have been told, and current Christian and other creationist scientists are already championing that idea without being aware of Fomenko's book. The two groups, creationist scientists and the Russian mathematical analysts corroborate each other. Fascinating.

Of course, all this flies in the face of what we have been told traditionally is the 'proper' chronology of western civilization, and most readers will experience 'cognitive dissonance' in reading this book. It means that our history going backwards from AD1600 becomes progressively more incorrect and unreliable until it cannot be trusted at all... in the space of 700-800 years.

Naturally, the curious, open-minded reader will want to know WHO did this, WHY, and did any of the events we think of as really ancient ever happen?
Dr. Fomenko is a respected scientist/mathematician at Moscow State University who has already answered these questions to the satisfaction of his initially skeptical colleagues. Most of them are now believers, a few still refuse to believe (the usual diehards), and of course the western press has ignored Fomenko's work -- for obvious reasons when you read the book. The ones who perpetrated this chronology ruse have a lot to answer for. They are still with us. That's why this book is a well-kept secret.

I gave the book a 4-star rating because I was unable to check out some of his claims; those I checked were as he said. But if even 1/3 of his claims are true, this punches a big hole in what we think is our history, the meaning of western civilization, our educational process (for repeating the ruse as gospel), and the trustworthiness of the organization that perpetrated this ruse, well-intentioned or not.

This book relates to current research into a Young Earth paradigm, to John Keel's discoveries about our planet, and Fr Malachi Martin's insights (in his now out-of-print books). We are indeed sheep who are manipulated and kept ignorant -- for a reason. While knowing what these men have to say may be the "booby prize" (as in: 'what can you do with this knowledge?'), it will provide interesting reading. Didn't someone say: "...and the Truth will set you free."?? For you to judge if this book contains the truth.

Marketing Engineering: Computer-Assisted Marketing Analysis and Planning (2nd Edition)

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Great Book
Great!
Excellent educational material, good software and study case
Great topics, exciting approaches, but not user friendly
Interesting Book, Absolutely Lousy Software & Cases

Marketing Engineering: Computer-Assisted Marketing Analysis and Planning (2nd Edition)
Gary L. Lilien , and Arvind Rangaswamy
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Great Book.......2002-04-06

This Book has provided many useful tools.
I'm not sure what book the previous ratings are referring to - because this one wasn't published until 2002.????

Great!.......2000-06-23

Simply simple for all. The guide to the marketing-based world

Excellent educational material, good software and study case.......1999-09-23

This is a very good book which illustrates some classical marketing model, with the help of software. I strongly recommand for marketing researcher and student.

Great topics, exciting approaches, but not user friendly.......1999-06-04

This book gives a rare glimpse as to how marketing analysis should take place in the intelligent corporation. Unfortunately, for those of us trying to apply the concepts, getting from theory to application with these materials is difficult. But what other books handle these vital topics??!

A second edition could polish the software and clarify the examples to make this a truly outstanding book.

Interesting Book, Absolutely Lousy Software & Cases.......1999-05-01

This book actually has two parts. The first is a very useful hardback book on marketing models which is probably worth about $50. The second is a newsprint-quality paperback with a CD which contains Microsoft Excel spreadsheets programed by the authors. The software is a complete waste of time. The authors have protected every sheet, preventing users from inputing their own data into the models or from using Excel's auditing features to understand how the models work. The authors also change user's default settings in Excel and make shutting down their spreadsheets difficult by disabling the user's ability close the spreadsheet using Excel's normal commands and forcing users to use the author's menu bar which remains even after the spreadsheets are loaded. The authors are extremely arrogant and treat their readers like children with annoying spreadsheet protection and macros with software virus-like behavior. Don't waste your time or money on this book. I would return it if I could, but the publisher does not provide a money back guarantee.

Quality Planning and Analysis: From Product Development through Use

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a really good book on a subject that can be boring
Practical Methods for Administering Quality Systems
Practical Methods for Administering Quality Systems
Good all around Quality Engineering handbook.

Quality Planning and Analysis: From Product Development through Use
Frank M. Gryna
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a really good book on a subject that can be boring.......2006-02-21

Because of work, I have had to read a lot of books on this topic... most of them are dry-textbook reads that you have to slog through. This one was well written - the text was easy to read - the diagrams and examples were interesting, and I found myself gaining new insights because I was actually reading the text instead of skimming it. Mr. Gryna clearly has the years of experience needed to write this kind of book, but he also has the teaching style of one of your favorite teachers.

Practical Methods for Administering Quality Systems.......2000-06-11

20 years before anyone in the US heard of ISO 9000, Juran proposed the same ideas. He described comprehensive, documented quality management systems that were backed up by performance metrics and quality audits. Juran also pioneered quality circles and teams long before these ideas became cliche.

I find Juran immensely useful in my quality practice. This book remains one the standard works that I keep going back to. Juran's concepts are much more "applied" than "theoretical". Deming's works seem so distant, and esoteric. Juran has been there, done that. And, his methods work!

Practical Methods for Administering Quality Systems.......2000-06-11

Good all around Quality Engineering handbook........1999-08-17

This book presents most aspects of Quality Engineering in an easy to understand format. Includes many Quality Engineering examples. Highly informative, a must for the CQE exam.

Stochastic Calculus for Finance I: The Binomial Asset Pricing Model (Springer Finance)

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Good book
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Good for finanical mathematics graduates
Very good to understand the basics of pricing-theory.
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Monte Carlo Methods in Financial Engineering (Stochastic Modelling and Applied Probability)
Heard on the Street: Quantitative Questions from Wall Street Job Interviews
Financial Calculus : An Introduction to Derivative Pricing

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Stochastic Calculus for Finance II: Continuous-Time Models (Springer Finance)

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Stochastic Calculus for Finance evolved from the first ten years of the Carnegie Mellon Professional Master's program in Computational Finance. The content of this book has been used successfully with students whose mathematics background consists of calculus and calculus-based probability. The text gives both precise statements of results, plausibility arguments, and even some proofs, but more importantly intuitive explanations developed and refine through classroom experience with this material are provided. The book includes a self-contained treatment of the probability theory needed for stochastic calculus, including Brownian motion and its properties. Advanced topics include foreign exchange models, forward measures, and jump-diffusion processes.

This book is being published in two volumes. The first volume presents the binomial asset-pricing model primarily as a vehicle for introducing in the simple setting the concepts needed for the continuous-time theory in the second volume.

Chapter summaries and detailed illustrations are included. Classroom tested exercises conclude every chapter. Some of these extend the theory and others are drawn from practical problems in quantitative finance.

Advanced undergraduates and Masters level students in mathematical finance and financial engineering will find this book useful.

Steven E. Shreve is Co-Founder of the Carnegie Mellon MS Program in Computational Finance and winner of the Carnegie Mellon Doherty Prize for sustained contributions to education.

Customer Reviews:

Good book.......2007-10-01

I agree that most concepts are clearly explained....emphasis on *most*. OK, I'll nitpick. And I admit I'm nitpicking. For example, the proof of Jensen's inequality (which he oddly dives into without defining convex functions), is rather non-intuitive, and seems to be more an appeal to the accompanying picture rather than a proof. The proof given under the Wikipedia entry for "Jensen's Inequality" is much clearer, and makes much more sense, at least to my way of thinking. Other than the occassional gaffe such as this, it is a highly readable, informative, and dare I say enjoyable text!

Nice book.......2007-03-08

I think its a very good book for fundamental concepts in stocastic calculus.

Good for finanical mathematics graduates.......2007-01-10

clear explanations on binomial models for European and American options. Abstract concepts also included such as change of measures, martingales, stopping times. Proofs in book assumed no knowledge on sigma fields or measure theory.

Very good to understand the basics of pricing-theory........2006-03-04

This book is great book about theory. Using a simple binomial tree as asset evolution model, all key notions are introduced. Neutral-risk probabilities come up in a simple, natural way, and I never found such a clear explanation of the the change of measure and its meaning in finances. Examples help to understand every ussue.

The only case in which you should not buy it: if you are looking for real-market instruments and techniques.

Interesting Read.......2006-02-17

I found this book to be a very interesting and fun read. A very helpful introduction to binomimal models and basic stopping time principals. It also provides a great refresher to Martingale principals. If you are having trouble with Shreve's volume II then have a look at this book first.

Managing Bank Risk: An Introduction to Broad-Base Credit Engineering

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Managing Bank Risk: An Introduction to Broad-Base Credit Engineering
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Featuring new credit engineering tools, Managing Bank Risk combines innovative analytic methods with traditional credit management processes. Professor Glantz provides print and electronic risk-measuring tools that ensure credits are made in accordance with bank policy and regulatory requirements, giving bankers with the data necessary for judging asset quality and value. The book's two sections, "New Approaches to Fundamental Analysis" and "Credit Administration," show readers ways to assimilate new tools, such as credit derivatives, cash flow computer modeling, distress prediction and workout, interactive risk rating models, and probabilistic default screening, with well-known controls. By following the guidelines of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, Managing Bank Risk offers useful models, programs, and documents essential for creating a sound credit risk environment, credit granting processes, and appropriate administrative and monitoring controls.

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* Chapter-concluding questions
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Best book on the topic.......2004-04-15

This book trully deserves 5 stars. It is literally stuffed with very specific steps, processes and case studies. Moreover the book is easy to understand. It is very worth the money. I highly recommend this book to credit risk managers, financial analysts or to those readers who are involved in development of credit policies or procedures.

Extraordinary.......2003-01-14

Managing Bank Risk, An Introduction to Broad-Base Credit Engineering, takes on a Herculean task of capturing an extraordinarily extensive array of risk management subjects. Having spent several years in my prior career as a Corporate Banker to Fortune 500 Companies, I was familiar with some of the material within the book. However, I found that the most critical tools that I accumulated and have come to rely on have by and large been aggregated and explained clearly through both quantitative and qualitative approaches. Going beyond definitions and methodology, Managing Bank Risk lends focused perspective and context through the use of case studies. Having built various articulating sensitivity models over the course of my career, I appreciated the book's foundation of credit metrics, financial statement analysis with focus on cash flow analysis, proper asset-based lending approaches and detailed explanations of several forecasting techniques. From a pure banking perspective, Mr. Glantz commits significant time to portfolio management, hedging techniques, and understanding derivatives. Having seen only a small fraction of the statistical forecasting tools from business school that Mr. Glantz covers in the book, I found both the theory and practical software-based tools fascinating. Managing Bank Risk also evaluates and lucidly explains many corporate finance concepts and valuation tools such as Real Options and Pricing Models, which I have found important to have a controlling knowledge of in my career as an Investment Banker. Finally, but certainly not in summation, Managing Bank Risk reviews and identifies important Accounting and Corporate Structure insights and lessons that can be taken from recent corporate scandals. Given the sheer volume and quality of topics covered from the most fundamental to some of the most sophisticated, cutting-edge models available today, I would suggest this well-written and comprehensive book as a must-read for business school students or as a reference guide for finance professionals.

Incredible! Leading Resource to Understand Bank Risk.......2003-01-09

Glantz provides an astonishing and comprehensive overview of current banking practices. The book provides the necessary approaches for managing risk and uncovering discrepancies in today's environment of corporate shenanigans. The chapters on credit derivatives and pricing models are the most impressive of all writings on these subjects and are presented in a very clear and concise manner. Finally, the resources and risk rating system included on the CD is worth the price of the book alone.

BEST IN CLASS.......2003-01-02

This book is simply brilliant! Not only did I learn about new techniques for managing bank risk but found it similar to a novel that I never wanted to put down. I never take the time to write critiques but this book definitely warranted it.

Bank Risks.......2002-12-30

Managing Bank Risks is the definitive handbook on how bank risks should be managed. It presents new, leading edge techniques of risk management in a practical, user-friendly way. The accompanying CD provides underpinning for the risk manager to hone his skills. Morton Glantz has done a superb job, providing the reader with the latest risk management techniques under öne roof"

Interest Rate Modelling: Financial Engineering

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This book provides a comprehensive resource on all the main aspects of valuing and hedging interest rate products. A series of introductory chapters reviews the theoretical background, pointing out the problems in using naïve valuation and implementation techniques. There follows a full analysis of interest rate models including major categories, such as affine, HJM and market models, and in addition, lesser well known types that include Consol, random field and jump-augmented models. Implementation methods are discussed in depth including the latest developments in the use of finite difference, lattice and Monte Carlo methods and their particular application to the valuation of interest rate derivatives. Containing previously unpublished material.

Interest Rate Modelling is a key reference work both for practitioners developing and implementing models for real and for academics teaching and researching in the field.

Interest Rate Modelling is an encyclopedic treatment of interest rates and their related financial derivatives. It combines advanced theory with extensive and down-to-earth data analysis in a way which is truly unique. For practitioners, students and scholars in the field, this impressive wok will be the standard reference for years to come.", Professor Tomas Bjork, , Stockholm School of Economics#

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"I particularly like the strong emphasis on the practicalities and calibration of interest rate models. This book will be invaluable as a comprehensive reference to students, researchers, and practitioners.", Professor Francis Longstaff, , The Anderson School at UCLA#"

This is a carefully written, scholarly but fascinating presentation of the field of Interest Rate Modelling. It combines the best of two worlds: the rigour expected from finance in acamedia with the relevance expected from finance in practice. James and Webber are truly masters of their market since this book is surely a must-buy for both researchers and practitioners. If only all finance books were written with this care and attention to detail.", Dr Neil Johnson, , Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford#

"Today, interest rates are key economic instruments. This is a mammoth treatise and must surely rank as one of the most comprehensive available on the topic. Anyone interested in modelling or simulating the behaviour of interest rates, be they practitioner, economist, mathematician or new entrant to the subject, will find within a wealth of pertinent material.", Professor Peter Richmond, , Trinity College Dublin#

Customer Reviews:

Good explained yield curve fitting.......2005-08-15

List different way of yield curve fitting method, and good explain why B-spline
is good. Also term structure on general manifold is interesting, although a review don't
think it's useful.

Could have been very good. A new edition could earn 5 stars........2005-03-01

While very ambitious and containing some very good material, I think there are too many errors, typos, and gaps in this book. For example, the derivation of equation (3.20) on page 43, a not insignificant result on swap rates, is embarrasingly wrong. They make 2 fundamental errors in equations (3.15) and (3.16) and appear fortunate to arrive at (3.20) which is correct. These errors are not mere typos. Their examples related to the concept of a filtration on top of page 58 appear to be wrong. Elsewhere in the book notation is often used inconsistently and without adequate definition. There are also gaps. For example, when discussing volatility structures in Section 16.1, they use equation (16.6) (which is correct) in a number of examples, but I could not find where they actually derived that equation. (It should have been in the HJM chapter) but was not there.

I like the fact that they wanted to include a chapter on term structures from the macro-economic perspective. Unfortunately this chapter is difficult to read, provides no macroeconomic intuition and again appears to omit too many details. For example, the description of the IS-LM-Phillips model is inadequate and either should be expanded or dropped from future editions. Likewise, the description of the Sommer model is inadequate. Equation (11.3) in the statement of Sommer's Theorem would appears to be wrong at first sight. The left-hand-side of that equation is known by time t, but the right-hand-side would appear to be UNknown by time t. This apparnet contradiction can be explained but the authors never comment on such matters, often making the material more difficult to follow.

Chapter 17 on GMM and MLE methods is quite nice but again, not everything is adequately explained. The examples of Section 17.2.5, for example, seem to assume that certain variables are observable in the market place (e.g. volatility, v_t in equation 17.38) but this seems inapproriate as v_t would generally be unobservable. Indeed this is stated in Chapter 18. Again, however, James and Webber provide no clarification whatsoever of this issue, leaving the reader to wonder what exactly was done.

Some sections are also poorly motivated. For example, Section 16.4, "Processes on Manifolds", in the chapter on Principal Components Analysis is not motivated properly. While the material is quite straightforward to read (though they should define terms like diffeomorphism if they want to use them in a financial engineering text), it is not clear why you need to bring in the language of manifolds and tangency spaces etc. After all, where is this material used in the example of Section 16.4.5? It seems to me that the examples of Section 16.4 are interesting and do lead to new types of term structure models, but that this material could be presented without the jargon of manifolds. Again, I may be wrong but then I would blame the authors for not writing clearly.

A final criticism is that it seems on occasion that the authors are writing about material that they are not particularly familiar with, all for the sake of being encyclopedic. This thought crossed my mind when reading the chapter on Monte Carlo simulation. For example, with reference to equations (13.11)-(13.13) it would have taken very little to point out that Jensen's Inequality implies that some estimated security prices will be biased. Indeed the authors hint at this in the final paragraph on page 350 but do not make the point.

There are many other examples of these errors / typos / gaps in the book. And as far as I know there is no list of errata available.

I will not mention the many good things in this book as other reviewers have already done so. However, I think their praise has been excessive and feel that 3 stars is appropriate.

A real must !.......2001-12-30

As a math grad student who is interested in the term structure modelling, I found that this book is really useful! It just tells you everything about interest rate modelling,not just for the no-arbitrage modelling issue, they even have a chapter about the macroeconomic foundation for interest rate fluctuation! The math used in this book is very concise without too much measure theory twaddle,Everyone who works in this field should have a copy. It's a real must!

A must-have encyclopedia on term structure modeling.......2001-05-26

I have spent a number of years in building & implementing models for interest-rate-dependent claims, but should admit: I learned more from this book. I view it as an encyclopedia on the subject, in which the authors (never heard their names before - what a shame!) have done an excellent job on reviewing hundreds of publications. The theory of term structure modeling has been grown to a separate subject - thanks to Hull and White, Jamshidian, HJM, BGM, Hughston - among main contributors. You can find all methods in one place and in a very accesible form. For example, HJM is described better and simpler than in the author's original paper. Most models are reviewed with practical implementation in mind.

It is not a "first book" on "introduction" on the subject; it is rather a good desk reference for prepared professionals.

Extraordinary.......2001-03-17

There are plenty of books on fixed income mathematics. This one is extraordinary. It is simultaneously practical, theoretically sophisticated and a pleasure to read. The treatment of term-structure models, including HJM, is the most accessible I have seen anywhere. There is a lot of information on yield curve building. This includes both bootstrapping and more recent research in parameterised curves. There are plenty of topics that other books might label "beyond the scope of ...", but James and Webber jump right in, with meaty discussions of the Kalman filter, lattice methods of valuation and GARCH models. Despite all the theory, the authors are always in touch with practical details. They take into account stub dates, and are precise about day counts. These are obviously practitioners!

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