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

I have been studying lean and six sigma practices the last couple years now, slowly improving the processes and product quality of our structural design team in the major global engineering firm for which I work. "LSS Doing More..." is the clearest application-oriented book that I have come across to date. A major problem with most books is they usually cover lean or six sigma, but this book brings both together so you can actually see the harmony of LSS. Also, other books tend to be very theoretical, while this book was more hands-on. In fact, I enjoyed it more than "LSS for Service." There are plenty of tools paired with real-world experiences and advice for practical application. Elimination of wastes, for example, is critical to our teams productivity, so Chapter 2 with Mike Tamilio made the book worth its weight in gold alone. The examples of where you find waste really hit home; I especially enjoyed the "kite string" technique - very clever! I found several excellent ways to streamline our internal work-flow, eliminate wastes that have been tying us to outdated and unnecessary paperwork and procedures, and overall improve our value stream.Chapter 5 with Stephen Clarke was also very good as I am a numbers guy (side note - Kindle version seemed to create a few typos because of missing punctuation). I can personally attest to the benefits of reducing work-in-process - our most recent project for a government agency client has included five complete redesigns over the last 11 months!I have already implemented several solid changes to our workflow, including where each person on the team sits and our information sharing frequency, and we will continue to do much more. I will certainly be returning to this book often as a reference and resource. My recommendation: buy this book and do what it says. Run the numbers and truly look at how your work flows. If you can't save time and money in your practice in doing so, you're doing something wrong.Best of luck,Structural1

Based on what I've heard of the book, I expected a lot. Knowing something of Lean Six Sigma, I did learn something as an overview, but it was not the mind-blowing experience I was expecting. Little too much time spent on selling LSS as concept at a cost of missing a lot of practical advice how to apply the techiques

This is a good book with some good ideas, mostly as a reminder tool. It includes some good and useful formulas. It is useful for small business owners and manufacturers to help in focusing with cost reduction.

It’s giving me an in-depth look at this phenomenal management process. Ican see why so many customer centric companies utilize it’s approaches.

Easy read. Nice overview of the fundamentals of lean.

Excellent

Great book with real world examples of using the DMAIC process.

needed for class. The first chapter was a little hard to read. Very dry. Everything else was not problem.

Great product

I've been finding it hard to get a book that comprehensively covers a large number for LSS tools. This covers lots but I've seen others in other books that are not covered here.

Overall the quality of the information is good.The ebook has design issues. Some text are misplaced and graph legend refer to colour coding but they all are in black and white!!!

I like it and found the book useful in my job.it's one of the best books on Lean Six Sigma.