The Lean Six Sigma Guide to Doing More With Less: Cut Costs, Reduce Waste, and Lower Your Overhead

praise for The Lean Six Sigma guide to Doing More with Less
"At Frito Lay, we have applied many of the concepts and tools in this book, and we are realizing a five to seven times return on our annual Lean Six Sigma investment."
—Tony Mattei, Lean Six Sigma Director, Frito Lay
"Ecolab has experienced a sustainable, competitive advantage through Lean Six Sigma. The principles in this book are helping us drive greater value for our share–holders, better service for our customers, and talent development opportunities for our associates."
—Jeffrey E. Burt, Vice President and Global Deployment Leader, Lean Six Sigma, Ecolab
"This book gives excellent insights into Lean Six Sigma and its strong impact within different industries. We used Lean Six Sigma in numerous process improvement projects, which, in turn, helped to create momentum and set up a process improvement culture. Amid a challenging economic environment, we are accelerating this initiative globally."
—Satheesh Mahadevan, Directeur des Processus, Société Générale
"Our Lean Six Sigma deployment of the concepts and tools described in this book is transforming our business—with tangible benefits for our employees, customers, suppliers, and shareholders."
—Jeffrey Herzfeld, Sr. Vice President and General Manager, Teva Pharmaceuticals USA
"We have deployed the holistic Lean Six Sigma strategy described by Mark George across our enterprise. It is providing remarkable returns for Unum."
—Bob Best, Chief Operating Officer, Unum
"The Lean Six Sigma Guide to Doing More with Less presents a comprehensive view of operations transformation, the approaches required for success, leadership′s role, and the competitive advantage that results. Transformational changes are enabling us to do more with less, by investing and working smarter."
—Ted Doheny, President and COO, Joy Mining Machinery

Spis treści:
Preface.
Creating a Holistic Approach to Lean Six Sigma.
Lean Six Sigma Fad or Phenomenon?
Chapter 1: Why Use Lean Six Sigma to Reduce Cost.
Transactional Example: Lean Six Sigma Transforming our Government.
Making Speed an Imperative.
The Alloy of High Performance: Why choose Lean Six Sigma to reduce cost.
Lean Six Sigma Versus Traditional Cost Cutting Tactics.
Emerging Stronger than Ever.
Spotlight #1: How to Use This Book.
Overview of Part I: Process Cost Reduction a focus on the tools of waste elimination.
Overview of Part II: Enterprise Cost Reduction, a focus on value, speed, agility and competitive advantage.
Overview of Part III: Accelerating Deployment Returns getting more, faster, from a Lean Six Sigma deployment.
PART I Process Cost Reduction a focus on waste elimination.
Introduction to Part 1.
Chapter 2: Find Cost Reduction Opportunities in Waste.
The Seven Common Faces of Waste: TIMWOOD.
Using the Full LSS Toolkit to Drive Cost Reduction.
Spotlight #2 Special Tips for Non–manufacturing Processes
Chapter 3: Design a Successful Lean Six Sigma Project or Pilot.
1. Which Methodology Is Right for Your Project?
2. Charter Overview.
3. Scoping a Project.
4. Refine the Project Definition.
5. Making the Business Case.
6. Identifying the Players and Their Roles.
7. Identifying and Communicating with Stakeholders.
Tips: Must–Haves for Rapid & Sustainable Cost Reduction.
Conclusion.
Chapter 4: Use the Voice of the Customer to Identify Cost Cutting Opportunities.
Customer Types and Their Needs.
Collecting Data on Customer Needs.
Getting Specific About Customer Needs.
Using Measurement System Analysis to avoid misinterpretations
Conclusion.
Chapter 5: Make Processes Transparent to Expose Waste.
How to Define the Boundaries Through SIPOC diagrams.
Using Value Stream Maps to Achieve Tra nsparency.
Conclusion.
Chapter 6: Measure Process Efficiency: Finding the Levers of Waste Reduction.
Process Cycle Efficiency (PCE): The key metric of process time.
Little′s Law: Understanding the Levers for Improving Process Speed.
The WIP Cap Method: How limiting WIP can increase process speed and reduce costs.
Using PCE and Little′s Law to Drive Cost Reduction.
Chapter 7: Improve Your Analysis Skills.
Analysis Skill #1: Learning to “Read” Variation.
Analysis Skill #2: Digging Out Root Causes.
Analysis Skill #3: Establishing relationships between factors.
Conclusion.
Chapter 8: Make Rapid Improvements Through Kaizens.
Quick Overview: The Kaizen Approach (aka “Rapid DMAIC”).
When to Use Kaizens in Cost–Reduction Projects.
How to Run a Kaizen Event.
Seven Keys to Kaizen Success.
Conclusion.
PART II Raising the Stakes Reducing Costs at an Enterprise Level.
Chapter 9: Think Transformation, Not Just Improvement.
1) Attaining a proper understanding of the extent of the opportunity.
2) Consciously choose a path to capture the opportunity.
Plan For a Transformation Journey.
Leadership Challenges in Leading a Transformation.
Conclusion.
Chapter 10: Unlock the Secrets to Speed and Flexibility.
Alignment and Analytics.
A Model of Speed and Agility.
The Death Trap of Economic Order Quantity (EOQ).
Alternatives to EOQ.
The Equations in Action.
Conclusion.
Chapter 11: Reduce the Cost of Complexity.
The Hidden Cost that Added Offerings Impose on Processes.
Assessing Complexity in Your Business: A holistic view.
Highlights of the Complexity Analysis Process.
Complexity Reduction as the Gateway to Transformation.
Conclusion.
SPOTLIGHT #3: The 8th (and Usually Ignored) Waste: Capital.
Chapter 12: Lower the Cost of Maintenance and Capital Projects.
Raising the Bar on Maintenance Performance.
Project Value Analysis for Maintenance and Capital Projects.
Conclusion.
Chapter 13: Look Outside Your Four Walls to Lower Costs Inside.
What Is an Extended Enterprise.
Working on the Supplier End of the Extended Enterprise.
What to Do When You′re The Supplier: Extending your enterprise downstream.
Conclusion.
PART III Speeding up Deployment Returns: Strategies for Getting More, Faster from a Lean Six Sigma Deployment.
Chapter 14: Create a Pipeline of Cost Improvement Projects.
Creating Rigor in Project Identification and Selection.
Fast Path For Project Selection: A project identification workshop.
From First–Time to All The Time: Shifting from a one–time event to an ongoing system of pipeline management.
Conclusion: Keeping a Dynamic Pipeline.
Spotlight #4: Link Projects to Value Drivers.
Chapter 15: Smooth the Path Through Change.
1. Change Readiness Assessments.
2. Leading vs. Managing the Change.
3. Upgrading Your Communication Plan.
4. Process Ownership and Cost Accountability.
Restoring faith, hope, and belief.
Chapter 16: Establishing a Center of Excellence.
What is a CoE & What Does It Do?
Focus #1: Performance Management.
Focus #2: Replication Copy and paste your cost savings.
How Can a CoE Fit Into an Organization?
Launching the CoE.
Weaving the CoE Into Strategic Planning.
Conclusion.
Chapter 17: Gaining New Perspectives on Deployment Cost and Speed Opportunities.
Looking for Focus and Flexibility in Deployment.
Focusing Deployments on Business Issues.
Flexibility in Building Skills.
Conclusion.
Chapter 18: Reenergizing a Legacy Program.
Why Deployments Lose Steam.
Building a Steam Engine: Performance Management.
Process Ownership: The partner of Performance Management.
How to Reenergize a Deployment.
Conclusion.

Nota biografic zna:

Mark O. George is a Senior Executive at Accenture and is the Global Offering Group leader for Operations Consulting in the Process and Innovation Performance service line. Mark has designed and supported dozens of enterprise transformation initiatives for Fortune 500 and 1000 companies that have delivered hundreds of millions in economic profit. Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services, and outsourcing company with more than 186,000 people serving clients in over 120 countries, the company generated net revenues of $23.39 billion for the fiscal year ended August 31, 2008. Its home page is www.accenture.com.

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praise for The Lean Six Sigma guide to Doing More with Less
"At Frito Lay, we have applied many of the concepts and tools in this book, and we are realizing a five to seven times return on our annual Lean Six Sigma investment."
—Tony Mattei, Lean Six Sigma Director, Frito Lay
"Ecolab has experienced a sustainable, competitive advantage through Lean Six Sigma. The principles in this book are helping us drive greater value for our share–holders, better service for our customers, and talent development opportunities for our associates."
—Jeffrey E. Burt, Vice President and Global Deployment Leader, Lean Six Sigma, Ecolab
"This book gives excellent insights into Lean Six Sigma and its strong impact within different industries. We used Lean Six Sigma in numerous process improvement projects, which, in turn, helped to create momentum and set up a process improvement culture. Amid a challenging economic environment, we are accelerating this initiative globally."
—Satheesh Mahadevan, Directeur des Processus, Société Générale
"Our Lean Six Sigma deployment of the concepts and tools described in this book is transforming our business—with tangible benefits for our employees, customers, suppliers, and shareholders."
—Je ffrey Herzfeld, Sr. Vice President and General Manager, Teva Pharmaceuticals USA
"We have deployed the holistic Lean Six Sigma strategy described by Mark George across our enterprise. It is providing remarkable returns for Unum."
—Bob Best, Chief Operating Officer, Unum
"The Lean Six Sigma Guide to Doing More with Less presents a comprehensive view of operations transformation, the approaches required for success, leadership′s role, and the competitive advantage that results. Transformational changes are enabling us to do more with less, by investing and working smarter."
—Ted Doheny, President and COO, Joy Mining Machinery