Innovating Lean Six Sigma: A Strategic Guide to Deploying the World's Most Effective Business Improvement Process

Introduction

The Tao of Lean Six Sigma

The combined discipline of Lean Six Sigma has been around for well over a decade, and its component disciplines date back much further—a long enough time span to produce hundreds of deployments: some successful, some not.

If you look at the successful uses of Lean Six Sigma, you’ll see a wide range of reported approaches and benefits. Some global corporations launched massive efforts to establish a now well-entrenched infrastructure that has generated millions or even billions of dollars in saved operating costs. Other companies started with small, localized efforts that expanded over time, ultimately leading ...