Leaning Into Six Sigma : A Parable of the Journey to Six Sigma and a Lean Enterprise

by Barbara Wheat, Chuck Mills, Mike Carnell

A brief business novel about combining today's two most powerful quality initiatives Leaning Into Six Sigma shows managers how to combine today's two most popular continuous improvement methodologies-- Lean Enterprise and Six Sigma--for dramatically improved quality and cycle time. This concise and fast-paced "business novel" tells the story of how one skeptical company gradually came to understand and implement a Lean Six Sigma initiative--improving quality at all levels of the organization. This engaging story will help employees and managers understand basic quality concepts from Design of Experiments (DOE) to Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), while learning how

Genres: Management, Nonfiction, Business

120 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2003

Reviews

[Haytham Badawey · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book is not educational, rather it's a short story about a person implementing 6 sigma.

I think this story is too good to be true.. but it's still good.

[Alvaro · Rating 3 out of 5]

It is an engaging book on the process of implementing six sigma.

[Rubi Vianey]

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[Srividya Subramanian · Rating 4 out of 5]

All okay but Six Sigma started with Toyota, I thought...

[Steve Whiting · Rating 3 out of 5]

Easy to read, much in the manner of "The Goal", which introduces the reader to Lean Sigma concepts through a novelisation of the process.

It has many of the same problems as The Goal - it's not very well written, the characters are fairly unbelievable and uniformly positive towards all of the innovations once their eyes have been opened by the protagonist to the glories of LS.

So, a brief & cheap introduction, but unless you only have a superficical interest in LS, you're going to need much more detail than is provided here

[Maxime Ouellet-payeur · Rating 3 out of 5]

Engaging, but simple

[Violetta · Rating 2 out of 5]

Read it for school, can't say that I liked it. Writing is conversational and self-laudatory, and calling it a parable is awkward.