Description: Organizations today are looking to do more with less, become more efficient, increase capacity, and find cost savings. They hire business process managers to facilitate process improvement efforts, align processes to organization goals, gain performance advantages, improve personnel capacity, and sustain gains. Simple Lean Six Sigma is a handbook that teaches the reader a simple step by step approach to help their organization design process, improve processes, optimize organizational design, increase capacity, and eliminate waste. This book is being used as a text book at select universities nationwide for Green Belt Certification. The students learn how to strike wastefulness; which includes inefficiencies caused by defects, non value-added flow of information or materials, stacks of inventory, data storage, overproduction and extra processing. Students will learn how to identify and reduce special cause variation, analyze value streams, and implement positive change.
Brief description: A companion book on leadership compliments this methodology. Becoming a change agent is key to successful organizational improvements. Look for "Unleash The Leader" as a guide to effective leadership.