Lean Six Sigma
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 companys production and profit performance. Lean
Six Sigma explains how to impact your companys performance in each, by combining the
strength of todays 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 in less than 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 todays 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 Sigmas reach within and beyond your
corporate walls.
Six Sigma was the
zero-variation quality lynchpin around which Jack Welch transformed GE into one of the
worlds 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.
Michael L. George is
founder and president of George Group which, with over 70 consultants, is the largest Six
Sigma consulting practice in the United States. The firm also provides its clients with a
wealth of experience in Lean Methods, Supply Chain Acceleration, and other essential
business strategies.
Author Biography
Michael L. George is
founder and president of George Group which, with over 70 consultants, is the largest Six
Sigma consulting practice in the United States. The firm also provides its clients with a
wealth of experience in Lean Methods, Supply Chain Acceleration, and other essential
business strategies.
322 pages