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.
