A teacher once said that a sign of brilliance is the ability to
make the overly complex simple. Jay is one of those people who can take advanced
statistical techniques and boil them down until he has theory and techniques usable
by the common man.
I've been using Jay's products for about 8 years now,
and immediately ordered this book as soon as he sent me an email saying that it
was going to be released. His book and other learning materials hold a prominent
space in my Quality Improvement library.
A. S. Joyce "Certified
Six Sigma Black Belt" (Boston)
Are sluggish,
error-prone processes costing your customers time and cash? Want to make your
business more productive and profitable?
Lean Six Sigma Demystified offers
a streamlined and simple way to learn this revolutionary quality improvement method
and tools.
Here's my premise: You don't have to know everything to do anything
with Six Sigma. As one black belt put it: Why are we sending people to weeks of
training when they only use a handful of methods and tools most of the time.
Lean
Six Sigma Demystified covers the essential methods and tools that you need to
start reducing delay, defects and deviation immediately.
Practical and very helpful. Reading this book was like a breath of
fresh air. It's very well-written, easy to read, and uses a down to earth style,
with a lot of great humor sprinkled in. It is very different from most books on
quality and process improvement I've read. It recommends a pragmatic approach
to problem-solving that simplifies the principles from Lean and Six Sigma and
uses just a few basic tools to focus on 90% of the process problems a business
wrestles with. I found the streamlined process improvement approach which is outlined
in the book to be very helpful.
E. Drue
You don't need to be a statistician to use Lean Six Sigma. You don't need to know
any complex formulas. You just need to know which tools to use when. And the QI
Macros can handle all of the heavy analysis.
I found this a great book on practical rapid and minimal tools for
deployment of six sigma. Its great from that perspective and has many great tips
including my favourites, the 70/70/70 and 4/50 rules of thumb.
It's NOT
about using lean tools and methodologies supported by Six Sigma tools and methodologies,
which is what I was expecting. Having said that, it was a great and easy read
and has inspired me to push for more rapid (but effective) turnover of projects.
Given our target is 90 day turnover, I would like to see how I go with
the leaned down six sigma process.
David J. Vize "Beany" (Townsville,
Australia)
I wish I could pretend that Lean
Six Sigma is really hard, but it's not. A handful of methods and tools will take
you from 3-to-5 sigma. If you make it that far, you can go learn all of the other
exotic tools and methods.
Until then, just learn to FISH: Focus, Improve,
Sustain and Honor.
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