What is Lean Six Sigma? by Michael L. George, David T. Rowlands, Bill Kastle
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- Pub. Date: October 2003
- 96pp
- Sales Rank: 12,799
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: October 2003
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, The
- Format: Paperback, 96pp
- Sales Rank: 12,799
- ISBN-13: 9780071426688
- ISBN: 007142668X
- Edition Number: 1
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A basic primer for all employees on using Lean Six Sigma to meet your company's goals and your customers' needs
Lean Six Sigma combines the two most important and popular quality trends of our time: Six Sigma and Lean Production. In this plain-English guide, you'll discover how this remarkable quality improvement method will help you identify and eliminate waste, cut costs and grow revenue, enhance your job skills, and even make work more meaningful.
What is Lean Six Sigma? reveals why companies are implementing this strategy, and walks you through the foundations of Lean Six Sigma, explaining the "four keys" and how they apply to your own job:
- Delight your customers with speed and quality
- Improve your processes
- Work together for maximum gain
- Base decisions on data and facts
Featuring charts, diagrams, and case studies of teams who have used these methods to improve their workplace, What is Lean Six Sigma? tells you what you need to know to make this strategy a success in your organization.
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Michael L. George is the founder and CEO of George Group, the largest Lean Six Sigma consulting practice in the United States. He is the author of Lean Six Sigma and Lean Six Sigma for Service.
David Rowlands is Vice President of Lean Six Sigma at Xerox Corporation. He's been using Lean and Six Sigma since 1988, and has practical experience working with teams to solve improvement challenges in sales, service, and manufacturing.
Bill Kastle is a Vice President at George Group and has helped guide Lean Six Sigma initiatives at major corporations. For 15 years, he has helped teams at all levels apply these tools to improve performance and respond to customer needs.
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What is Lean Six Sigma?by Anonymous
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October 06, 2006: This is truly a great book for someone wanting to develop a cursory understanding of two distinct yet embracing organizational quality systems. Six Sigma and Lean Principles have come together to demand attention as they take their place in modern production principles. It is a very quick read but very thorough in its explanations of the foundations and implementations of Lean Six Sigma.
What is Lean Six Sigma?by Anonymous
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March 18, 2005: Six Sigma books often couch their wisdom in acronyms or jargon, or they offer vague, unfulfilling anecdotal narratives. This book is different. As trim, focused and efficient as if a Six Sigma team had designed it, it gets the job done. Its mission is simple: explain the basic structure of Lean Six Sigma initiatives to readers who are likely to become involved in one. While select case studies are judiciously sprinkled throughout, this is a meat-and-potatoes book that tells you what you need to know in clear, straightforward prose. Although the authors - Mike George, Dave Rowlands and Bill Kastle - humbly issue the caveat that this is not intended to be a comprehensive reference, its terse yet relevant style will probably make it one of those dog-eared volumes that barely gets back to the HR bookshelf before it?s checked out again. Because of its plainspoken functionality, we recommend this manual strongly to anyone whose future may involve Lean Six Sigma.
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