Description
Book SynopsisExplains how to impact a company's performance by combining the strength of Lean Production and Six Sigma. This book shows how Lean and Six Sigma methods complement each other. It outlines a program for combining the synergies of these initiatives to provide the organization with greater speed, less process variation, and more bottom-line impact.
Table of ContentsPart I - Executive Overview; Chapter 1: Achieving Major Cost and Lead Time Reductions this year; Chapter 2: Why all the delay and cost? Chapter 3: Let Warren Buffett set your priorities for Value Creation; Part II - Creating a Powerful Engine of Wealth Creation; Chapter 4: Benchmarking - CEO's tell what every CEO should know; Chapter 5: Leadership buy-in - The Transforming event; Chapter 6: Creating the Six Sigma Infrastructure and Leaders; Chapter 7: Training Your Organization for Lean Six Sigma; Chapter 8: Making Teams succeed by Predicting Performance; Part II - Getting the Results This Year; Chapter 9: The First 100 days; Chapter 10: The Quantified Value: Defining the Value Stream and time bottlenecks; Chapter 11: The power of the tools - A CEO's overview; Chapter 12: Sharing Best practices; Chapter 13: Accelerating Product Development; Chapter 14: Suppliers - beginning of the Value Stream; Chapter 15: Distribution and logistics - End of the Value Stream; Chapter 16: e-Business and Supply Chain velocity; Chapter 17: Transactional processes - Back to the hotel; Chapter 18: Using Lean Six Sigma in Acquisitions and Divestitures
