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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 658.562 EAN: 9780071385213 ISBN: 0071385215 Label: McGraw-Hill Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 300 Publication Date: April 25, 2002 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Studio: McGraw-Hill Sales Rank: 29438 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: The Breakthrough Program for Increasing Quality, Shortening Cycle Times, and Creating Shareholder Value In Every Area of Your Organization Time and quality are the two most important metrics in improving any company's production and profit performance. Lean Six Sigma explains how to impact your company's performance in each, by combining the strength of today's two most important initiatives--Lean Production and Six Sigma--into one integrated program. The first book to provide a step-by-step roadmap for profiting from the best elements of Lean and Six Sigma, this breakthrough volume will show you how to: * Achieve major cost and lead time reductions this year * Compress order-to-delivery cycle times * Battle process variation and waste throughout your organization Separately, Lean Production and Six Sigma have changed the face of the manufacturing business. Together, they become an unprecedented tool for improving product and process quality, production efficiency, and across-the-board profitability. Lean Six Sigma introduces you to today's most dynamic program for streamlining the performance of both your production department and your back office, and providing you with the cost reduction and quality improvements you need to stay one step ahead of your competitors. "Lean Six Sigma shows how Lean and Six Sigma methods complement and reinforce each other. If also provides a detailed roadmap of implementation so you can start seeing significant returns in less than a year."--From the Preface Businesses fundamentally exist to provide returns to their stakeholders. Lean Six Sigma outlines a program for combining the synergies of these two initiatives to provide your organization with greater speed, less process variation, and more bottom-line impact than ever before. A hands-on guidebook for integrating the production efficiencies of the Lean Enterprise with the cost and quality tools of Six Sigma, this breakthrough book features detailed insights on: * The Lean Six Sigma Value Proposition--How combining Lean and Six Sigma provides unmatched potential for improving shareholder value * The Lean Six Sigma Implementation Process--How to prepare your organization for a seamless incorporation of Lean Six Sigma tools and techniques * Leveraging Lean Six Sigma--Strategies for extending Lean Six Sigma's reach within and beyond your corporate walls "Variation is evil."--Jack Welch Six Sigma was the zero-variation quality lynchpin around which Jack Welch transformed GE into one of the world's most efficient--and valuable--corporations. Lean Production helped Toyota cut waste, slash costs, and substantially improve resource utilization and cycle times. Yet, as both would admit, there was still room for improvement. Lean Six Sigma takes you to the next level of improvement, one that for the first time unites product and process excellence with the goal of enhancing shareholder value creation. Providing insights into the application of Lean Six Sigma to both the manufacturing processes and the less-data-rich service and transactional processes, it promises to revolutionize the performance efficiencies in virtually every area of your organization--as it positively and dramatically impacts your shareholder value. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Great anticipation brings great disappoitmentYes, you cannot judge a book by it's cover, but this book did not deliver on my expectations. If you are a senior manager, this book is for you as the vast majority of the book covers how you need to structure your organization, but not much real discussion of Lean or Six Sigma. This book provides a brief discussion of six sigma tools and almost no discussion of substance on Lean tools. It is a bad sell to tell a reader that a Black Belt should save $1,000,000 per year. After several lengthy discussions ... Read More Rating: - A well beyond decent introductionAlthough the beginning of this book feels a little too "preachy" with a lot of arguments of why Lean Six Sigma is the best tool for ensuring maximum quality at highest speed with best profit, it actually is really good. The author follows a red line throughout the book giving the reader no hard time following the concept of Lean Six Sigma. Compared to other books/guides of the same kind this is easily one of the better ones. Rating: - Written for a specific audience .."Lean Six Sigma: Combining Six Sigma Quality with Lean Speed" is not a how-to book written for actual front-line practitioners of the techniques. Instead, George's effort is expressly directed to the possibly skeptical CEO who may be considering implementing a Lean/6 Sigma effort and who needs to know a bit more detail. As he says on page 70: "One of the goals of this executive overview is to provide adequate depth . . . such that a rational CEO could judge whether this initiative is worthy ... Read More Rating:  - LSS - The book does not marry them right.I have read great books about Lean, classics like The Machine that Changed the World, The Toyota Way, Lean Thinking, etc., but this book fails to reach Lean's basics. The author approaches the subject without letting the reader grasp the Lean approach. The Six Sigma side of the book idolizes black belts and focuses strictly on ROIC (return of invested capital), which may be short sighted on long term effects. Lean Six Sigma is a powerful approach and can produce amazing results, but the book ... Read More Rating:  - Good structure and content with lots of errorsFirst, let me say that this book is well structured for managers and beginning practitioners who want to learn about Lean Six Sigma (LSS). Its content includes background, tools, and case studies to assist the reader with learning what LSS is all about. However, I seriously question whether this book was ever edited at all. To me, this normally would be a minor annoyance. With this book however, I noticed entire sentences that are non sequitor - so bad in fact, that one can tell that someone accidentally hit ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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