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Published:
November 2, 2021

Lean Six Sigma For Dummies

Overview

Become a process improvement star with Lean Six Sigma! 

Thinking Lean? Not in terms of weight loss, but operational efficiency? Then you can get into the Lean mindset with Lean Six Sigma For Dummies.  A popular process improvement strategy used in many corporations, Lean Six Sigma exemplifies eliminating waste and optimizing flow at an operational level. With the strategies outlined in this book, you’ll have your projects, team, and maybe even your organization running at peak efficiency. 

Written by two experts that have been teaching Lean Six Sigma for over 20 years, Lean Six Sigma For Dummies explains the jargon surrounding this organizational practice, outlines the key principles of both Lean thinking and the Six Sigma process, and breaks it all down into easy-to-follow steps. 

  • Use Lean Six Sigma to develop a culture of continuous improvement 
  • Complete repetitive tasks through robotic process automation 
  • Assess how well your company and employees adapt to Lean Six Sigma 
  • Discover tips on how to implement Lean Six Sigma every day 
  • Find best practices to sustain ongoing improvements 

With handy checklists and helpful advice, Lean Six Sigma For Dummies shows you how to implement Lean Six Sigma in any industry, within any size organization. Pick up your copy to successfully lean into the Lean Six Sigma mindset yourself.  

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About The Author

Martin Brenig-Jones is CEO of Catalyst Consulting, Europe’s leading Lean Six Sigma solutions provider. He has 30 years of experience in Quality and Change Management.

Jo Dowdall has 21 years of experience as a Continuous Improvement profes­sional, coach, trainer, and advocate. She is an accomplished Quality Manager and Master Black Belt.

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Are you ready to adopt the proven methods of Lean Six Sigma to improve business performance and make your teams more productive? Remind yourself of the key principles of this powerful strategy so that your business runs smoothly and efficiently.Lean Six Sigma's key principlesLean Six Sigma is a powerful, proven method of improving business efficiency and effectiveness.

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Throughout a Lean Six Sigma DMAIC improvement project, developing a storyboard summary of the key decisions and outputs helps you review progress and share what you've learnt. A storyboard builds up as you work your way through your project by capturing the key outputs and findings from the DMAIC phases. And it also helps your communication activities.
Failure Modes Effects Analysis (FMEA) helps identify and prioritise potential risks for preventive action. In April 2015, Doug Hughes, a mailman from Florida boarded a small personal aircraft called a gyrocopter and flew an hour from Maryland into restricted airspace over Washington, DC, and landed on the West Lawn of the Capitol building.
You can improve process flow in a number of ways using Lean Six Sigma, including by reducing waste. The seven categories of waste are sometimes identified by the acronym Tim Wood: Transportation: Moving materials and output unnecessarily. Inventory: Overproduction resulting in too much work in progress or stock.
To undertake improvement activity in your existing business processes in a systematic way using Lean Six Sigma, you need to employ the useful framework of DMAIC: Define: Projects start with a problem that needs solving. Make sure everyone involved knows their role, why you're doing the project and what you're trying to achieve with the project.
Sometimes referred to as Kaizen Blitz workshops, rapid improvement events provide the vehicle to tackle and resolve narrowly focused process problems. Some process improvements can be tackled very quickly, but for this to happen, an organisation needs to empower people and provide them with the time and space needed.
Are you ready to adopt the proven methods of Lean Six Sigma to improve business performance and make your teams more productive? Remind yourself of the key principles of this powerful strategy so that your business runs smoothly and efficiently.Lean Six Sigma's key principlesLean Six Sigma is a powerful, proven method of improving business efficiency and effectiveness.
This article demonstrates the not-so-tenuous connection between the topics of turning big data into smart data and reducing caloric intake, and, of course, the importance of measurement and data in Lean Six Sigma. There seems to be a lot of talk about big data and the importance of turning it into smart data. And, there's a lot of available data.
Lean Six Sigma is a powerful, proven method of improving business efficiency and effectiveness. In a nutshell, here are the key principles of Lean Six Sigma to bear in mind: Focus on the customer Identify and understand how the work gets done (the value stream) Manage, improve and smooth the process fl
When you're trying to improve value for your customers with Lean Six Sigma, remember that, in your customers' eyes, value is what they're willing to pay for: The right products and services At the right time At the right price At the right quality For a step to be value-adding, it must meet the following three criteria: The customer has to care about the step The step must either physically change the product or service in some way, or be an essential prerequisite for another step The step must be actioned 'right first time' Try to remove those steps that don't meet these criteria, but recognise that you may want to retain some non-value-adding steps, perhaps for regulatory or financial reasons, for example.
Too many Lean Six Sigma projects in too many organisations are less successful than they should be because people don't talk soft. No matter what type of change you're looking to make or how experienced you may be in the topic, if you don't recognise the importance of the soft stuff (like the schedule timeline or your budget), your chances of success will be reduced.
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