Explains how to impact a company's performance by combining the strength of Lean Production and Six Sigma. This book shows how Lean and Six Sigma methods complement each other. It outlines a program for combining the synergies of these initiatives to provide the organization with greater speed, less process variation, and more bottom-line impact.

Lean Six Sigma: Combining Six Sigma Quality with Lean Production Speed

Business & Money

Michael L. George

Investing

McGraw=Hill

A quick introduction on how to use Lean Six Sigma to improve your workplace, meet your goals, and better serve your customers. Lean Six Sigma combines the two most important improvement trends of our time: making work better (using Six Sigma) and making work faster (using Lean principles). In this plain-English guide, you’ll discover how this remarkable quality improvement method can give you the tools to identify and eliminate waste and quality problems in your own work area. Packed with diagrams, cartoons, and real-life examples, What is Lean Six Sigma? reveals the “four keys” of Lean Six Sigma and how they apply to your own job: <ul>
<li>Delight your customers with speed and quality </li>
<li>Improve your processes </li>
<li>Work together for maximum gain </li>
<li>Base decisions on data and facts </li>
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You’ll see the big picture of what your company hopes to gain with Lean Six Sigma, how it may affect your work area, and what it can mean to you personally.

What is Lean Six Sigma

David Rowlands

Bill Kastle

Industries

McGraw–Hill Education

Conquering the complexity in products and services can generate larger contributions to profits and growth than nearly any other business strategy Here's a guarantee: Somewhere in your business, there is too much complexity. You may also be losing out by having too little complexity where it counts - in the products, services and options you offer to customers. Either way, the impact of complexity is enormous in terms of lost profit and missed growth opportunities. Conquering Complexity in Your Business shows how to break through the ceiling on profits and growth by implementing the three rules for conquering complexity: 
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<li>Eliminating complexity that customers will not pay for </li>
<li>Exploiting the complexity that customers will pay for </li>
<li>Minimizing the costs of the complexity you offer </li>
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You'll find methods and tools you need to: 
<li>Identify the offering and process complexity in your business </li>
<li>Quantify the impact of that complexity </li>
<li>Decide which complexity you want to keep and which to eliminate </li>
<li>Select specific approaches to eliminate different kinds of complexity This knowledge will significantly improve your ability to grow profit, revenue, and shareholder value. 
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Conquering Complexity in Your Business: How Wal-Mart, Toyota, and Other Top Companies Are Breaking Through the Ceiling on Profits and Growth

Stephen A. Wilson

Economics

Lean Six Sigma for Service: How to Use Lean Speed and Six Sigma Quality to Improve Services and Transactions

The Lean Six Sigma Pocket Toolbook blends Lean and Six Sigma tools and concepts, providing expert advice on how to determine which tool within a "family" is best for different purposes. Packed with detailed examples and step bystep instructions, it's the ideal handy reference guide to help Green and Black Belts make the transition from the classroom to the field. 
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<li>Features brief summaries and examples of the 70 most important tools in Lean Six Sigma, such as "Pull," "Heijunka," and "Control Charts" </li> <li>Groups tools by purpose and usage </li> <li>Offers a quick, easy reference on using the DMAIC improvement cycle </li> <li>Provides comprehensive coverage in a compact, portable format </li> </ul>

The Lean Six Sigma Pocket Toolbook: A Quick Reference Guide to 100 Tools for Improving Quality and Speed

John Maxey

Mark Price

David T. Rowlands

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