Leaner Six Sigma

Name: Leaner Six Sigma
Brand: Taylor & Francis
SKU: 9781138387928
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Making Lean Six Sigma Easier and Adaptable to Current Workplaces

By Terra Vanzant Stern, PhD

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Leaner Six Sigma by Terra Vanzant Stern, PhD offers an updated approach to the well-established Lean and Six Sigma methodologies. It simplifies these process improvement tools to make them easier and quicker to understand for both beginners and experienced practitioners. Combining decades of lessons learned and modern software aids, Leaner Six Sigma streamlines the fundamentals, helping readers rapidly develop critical-thinking and problem-solving skills applicable across industries beyond manufacturing. Ideal for exam preparation or practical application, this book provides next-generation thinking in quality initiatives.
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This book is well-suited to business professionals, quality improvement practitioners, project managers, and students preparing for Lean, Six Sigma, or Lean Six Sigma certification exams. It also benefits anyone interested in enhancing process efficiency and problem-solving capabilities in both manufacturing and service sectors.

Leaner Six Sigma provides both novice and experienced Lean Six Sigma practitioners with a method for quickly explaining the basic tools so that they can be applied immediately to make processes and products better, faster, and more cost-effective independently as well as in concert with the basic methodology.

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Since the 1980s, Lean and Six Sigma have been used independently to make existing processes better, faster, and more cost-effective. For almost twenty years, countless companies have embraced the power of blending the two process improvement methodologies. This has resulted in major financial successes throughout the world, but no one denies that we have learned a lot in the last two decades.

Just in time to meet the challenges we will experience in 2020 and beyond, SSD Global Solutions has introduced Leaner Six Sigma (L_rSS). L_rSS makes the concepts and tools within these two popular methodologies easier and quicker to understand. Whether you plan to take an industry-standard exam or simply want to apply critical-thinking and problem-solving models to your daily life, this book helps you rapidly navigate your path.

Originally, to steer our way through traditional Six Sigma, it was necessary to understand complicated statistics. Then, with Lean, the heavy emphasis on manufacturing made it difficult to apply theories to the service sector. After the combination of Lean and Six Sigma became widespread, many of the core concepts still involved understanding historical references.

Fast-forward, we now have spreadsheet-based calculators and programs that build charts and graphs in a couple of clicks. Many "Best Practices" have been established, allowing for process improvements without reinventing the wheel. Over the years, talented subject matter experts and practitioners have discovered useful shortcuts to make Lean Six Sigma, Leaner.

This groundbreaking work shows how L_rSS reduces the learning curve for those unfamiliar with quality initiatives. It streamlines the fundamentals for students wanting to take exams in Lean, Six Sigma, or Lean Six Sigma. L_rSS also provides the mature Lean Six Sigma practitioner with innovative techniques to explain Lean Six Sigma theories to the new user. Lean Six Sigma has served us well, but it is time to utilise all the lessons learned and software tools available today. It is time to embrace next-generation thinking with Leaner Six Sigma!

Terra Vanzant Stern, PhD, is also the author of Lean and Agile Project Management: How to Make Any Project Better, Faster, and More Cost Effective.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781138387928

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 21 May 2019

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: CRC Press

Illustration: 15 Illustrations, black and white

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 512g

Pages: 231

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Business & Entrepreneurship Business Leadership & Management Business Strategy & Negotiation Company Culture & Human Resources Non-Fiction Terra Vanzant Stern, PhD

About the Author

Terra Vanzant Stern, PhD, PMP, SPHR/GPHR, is a Six Sigma Master Black Belt and the principal of SSD Global Solutions, Inc. She has held a number of board positions to include: Chair, ASQ Lean Enterprise Division, Chair, Strategy and Development for Colorado Human Resource Association, Chair, ASQ Denver, Chair, Rocky Mountain Quality Conference and Curriculum Chair for Projects with Industry (who worked placing developmentally disabled adults in the workforce community). Dr. Stern is a USAF veteran who has written several books and articles on problem solving, process improvement and leadership. Her most recent books, Lean and Agile Project Management and Lean Six Sigma: International Standards and Global Guidelines are available in bookstores and Amazon.com. She has worked with George Washington University, Baker University and CSU developing programs in the areas of practical statistics, leadership and critical thinking. All of her programs are fun and entertaining to the student and draw from several different adult learning theories. Other publications by Dr. Stern include: Lean Six Sigma: Practical Bodies of Knowledge, HR Concepts for Project Managers, Leaders Asleep at the Wheel and her dissertation: “The Paradox of Corporate Darwinism – Why the Fittest Don’t Always Succeed in Corporate America.” Current Clients/Partners of SSD Global Solutions include TVA, SCE, AHOLD, Jefferson County, Colorado, NG, and Fidelity. Recent partnerships include Cross Knowledge, Francis & Taylor Publishing, New Horizons Learning Centers and IT Pro TV. Dr. Stern also offers personal business coaching as well as training for middle managers interested in making the next step to the “C” Suite. Although this is a confidential service, she can provide one-on-one references from successful clients.