Lean Six Sigma : Combining Six Sigma Quality with Lean Production Speed: Michael George

Editorial Reviews

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 [...]

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Lean: Lessons from the Road: Jamie Flinchbaugh, Andy Carlino, Dennis Pawley

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Hitchhikers do not travel a fixed path. They intentionally wander so they can learn and grow along the way. Embarking on the lean journey is similar, there are many roads on which to wander and no single one is right for all. “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Lean: Lessons from the Road” [...]

Value Stream Management for the Lean Office: Don Tapping, Tom Shuker

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"We have been on our lean journey in manufacturing for some time now, and are expanding that success into our office environment and across administration for the entire company. We chose to begin with a requirement that all of our leaders create a value [...]

Rath & Strong’s Six Sigma Leadership Handbook: Rath & Strong

Editorial Reviews

Praise for Rath & Strong’s Six Sigma Leadership Handbook "Six Sigma tools, particularly DFSS, are critical drivers of organic growth. DFSS can be used to significantly improve a new product, service, or process anywhere. Rath & Strong’s detailed approach to how your company can use these [...]

Rath & Strong’s Six Sigma Leadership Handbook: Rath & Strong

Editorial Reviews

Praise for Rath & Strong’s Six Sigma Leadership Handbook "Six Sigma tools, particularly DFSS, are critical drivers of organic growth. DFSS can be used to significantly improve a new product, service, or process anywhere. Rath & Strong’s detailed approach to how your company can use these [...]

Hoshin Kanri: The Strategic Approach to Continuous Improvement: David Hutchins

The results of the quality revolution have been mixed. Global competition has elevated the most successful companies, in terms of providing goods and services, but even then initiatives such as total quality, business process reengineering and Six Sigma have been heralded as the solution, only to have been replaced with the next ‘big [...]

From Cinderella to CEO: How to Master the 10 Lessons of Fairy Tales to Transform Your Work Life: Cary J. Broussard, Anita Bell

From Publishers Weekly
Broussard, an executive at a “traditional Southern-based” travel hospitality corporation, uses 10 fairy tales, their handsome princes and huntsmen removed, to illustrate ways women can find greater success at work. It’s not quite the same as spinning straw into gold, but the principles she advocates-staying [...]

Rath & Strong’s Six Sigma Leadership Handbook: Rath & Strong

Praise for Rath & Strong’s Six Sigma Leadership Handbook "Six Sigma tools, particularly DFSS, are critical drivers of organic growth. DFSS can be used to significantly improve a new product, service, or process anywhere. Rath & Strong’s detailed approach to how your company can use these tools is [...]

The Certified Quality Engineer Handbook, Third Edition: Connie M. Borror, editor

This third edition provides the quality professional with an updated resource that exactly follows ASQ s Certified Quality Engineer (CQE) Body of Knowledge. Today it is not uncommon for the quality engineer to be involved in quality improvement activities in healthcare, finance, education, software applications, and other non-manufacturing sectors. In response, numerous new [...]

Lean Maintenance: Joel Levitt

Written for anyone in a leadership position in maintenance, storeroom or production, this unique book will also be found useful by vendors to the maintenance departments, including maintenance contractors, parts vendors, and various kinds of service providers. As a practical book, Lean Maintenance will take the reader on a journey from uncovering waste, [...]