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Innovating Lean Six Sigma: A Strategic Guide to Deploying the World's Most Effective Business Improvement Process
The New and Definitive User’s Guide to Lean Six Sigma If you’re a business leader, you already know that Lean Six Sigma is one of the most popular and powerful business tools in the world today. You also probably know that implementing the process can be more than a little challenging. This step-by-step guide shows you how to customize and apply the principles of Lean Six Sigma to your own organizational needs, giving you more options, strategies, and solutions than you’ll find in any other book on the subject. With these simple, proven techniques, you * Assess your current business model and shape your future goals
* Plan and prepare a Lean Six Sigma program that’s right for your company
* Engage your leadership and your team throughout the entire process
* Align your LSS efforts with the culture and values of your business
* Develop deeper insights into your customer experience
* Master the art of project selection and pipeline management
* Tackle bigger problems and find better solutions
* Become more efficient, more productive, and more profitable This innovative approach to the Lean Six Sigma process allows you to mold and shape your strategy as you go, making small adjustments along the way that can have a big impact. In this book, you’ll discover the most effective methods for deploying LSS at every level, from the leaders at the top to the managers in the middle to the very foundation of your company culture. You’ll hear from leading business experts who have guided companies through the LSS process―and get the inside story on how they turned those companies around. You’ll also learn how to use the latest, greatest management tools like Enterprise Kaizen, Customer Journey Maps, and Hoshin Planning. Everything you need to implement Lean Six Sigma―smoothly and successfully―is right here at your fingertips. Also included is a special chapter focusing exclusively on how to implement Lean Six Sigma in healthcare. When it comes to running a business, there is no better way to improve efficiency, increase productivity, and escalate profits than Lean Six Sigma. And there is no better book on how to make it work than Innovating Lean Six Sigma .
* Plan and prepare a Lean Six Sigma program that’s right for your company
* Engage your leadership and your team throughout the entire process
* Align your LSS efforts with the culture and values of your business
* Develop deeper insights into your customer experience
* Master the art of project selection and pipeline management
* Tackle bigger problems and find better solutions
* Become more efficient, more productive, and more profitable This innovative approach to the Lean Six Sigma process allows you to mold and shape your strategy as you go, making small adjustments along the way that can have a big impact. In this book, you’ll discover the most effective methods for deploying LSS at every level, from the leaders at the top to the managers in the middle to the very foundation of your company culture. You’ll hear from leading business experts who have guided companies through the LSS process―and get the inside story on how they turned those companies around. You’ll also learn how to use the latest, greatest management tools like Enterprise Kaizen, Customer Journey Maps, and Hoshin Planning. Everything you need to implement Lean Six Sigma―smoothly and successfully―is right here at your fingertips. Also included is a special chapter focusing exclusively on how to implement Lean Six Sigma in healthcare. When it comes to running a business, there is no better way to improve efficiency, increase productivity, and escalate profits than Lean Six Sigma. And there is no better book on how to make it work than Innovating Lean Six Sigma .
304 pages, Hardcover
Published February 1, 2016
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June 21, 2020
If you want to have an overall understanding of lean Six Sigma approach in business process improvement,this book is good source.
June 6, 2022
A lengthy look at Lean Six Sigma. Good for anyone interested in a more in-depth but still fairly basic overview of the process.
September 11, 2016
As I prepare for my Lean Six Sigma Black Belt exam, I have dubbed September as "Six Sigma September". I am trying to focus all learning and review on the methods and process specifically within the Six Sigma tool kit. Innovating Lean Six Sigma provided me an opportunity to use my commute time to listen to an audiobook on this very topic.
The book was good, so don't get me wrong. It just wasn't what I had hoped it would be. I had hoped that this audiobook would delve into the tools of six sigma, when to use them, and how to apply the results citing case studies. Instead we are presented yet another improvement book that is geared to senior leaders about why we should adopt the principles.
On the plus side of things, "Innovating..." does a very good job of framing why Lean and Six Sigma should be rolled out within an organization, some compelling case studies and some hidden gems that business leaders may not even know about. In the category of hidden gems, the authors do a great job of highlighting two topics that are not known by most managers, Triz (pronounced "trees") and BPM (Business Process Management). Both tools are not widely discussed in organizations I have been involved with, but can be nice additions to your improvement portfolio.
What the book discusses is definitely a solid 4+ star and I would highly recommend it to any leader looking to introduce LSS into their organization, but for tools and details in LSS "Innovating Lean Six Sigma" falls a bit short.
The book was good, so don't get me wrong. It just wasn't what I had hoped it would be. I had hoped that this audiobook would delve into the tools of six sigma, when to use them, and how to apply the results citing case studies. Instead we are presented yet another improvement book that is geared to senior leaders about why we should adopt the principles.
On the plus side of things, "Innovating..." does a very good job of framing why Lean and Six Sigma should be rolled out within an organization, some compelling case studies and some hidden gems that business leaders may not even know about. In the category of hidden gems, the authors do a great job of highlighting two topics that are not known by most managers, Triz (pronounced "trees") and BPM (Business Process Management). Both tools are not widely discussed in organizations I have been involved with, but can be nice additions to your improvement portfolio.
What the book discusses is definitely a solid 4+ star and I would highly recommend it to any leader looking to introduce LSS into their organization, but for tools and details in LSS "Innovating Lean Six Sigma" falls a bit short.
October 21, 2016
Unique in the sense that it focuses on the program management aspects of lean six sigma deployment, provides a variety of examples and business cases, as well as a survey of advanced lean tools for complex business issues. A section on "selling" and focusing on value to the businesses rather than improvement for its intrinsic value is well presented as key to obtaining buy-in from the various groups of stakeholders.
This book does not cover the tools in depth.
This book does not cover the tools in depth.
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