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...
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Create New Profits in Any Economy In this difficult economic climate, it's vital to cut waste that can eat at a company's bottom line and boost efficiency at every organizational level. The traditional business solution in a crisis is to slash away non-critical talent and resources, often doing more harm than good. There is a far better systematic approach to doing more with less. As a leading expert on Lean Six Sigma and business transformation, with a deep knowledge of its application in countless areas of business, author Mark George can help you use Lean Six Sigma to analyze your operational needs, identify high-impact opportunities, design and rapidly implement solutions, and create a system that will build efficiency and high performance in every area of your business. The Lean Six Sigma Guide to Doing More with Less can help you: Improve operating margins by as much as 20%, ROIC by as much as 10%, and reduce the costs of goods sold by as much as 5% or more Create "cost intelligence" that uncovers root causes allowing cost reductions without jeopardizing customer service levels and quality Use enterprise speed, agility, and flexibility to drive step-change reductions in cost and enable competitive advantage Identify and eliminate the costs of complexity in your business Supercharge your legacy Six Sigma program, improving speed to results, increasing project values, and shortening completion times With case examples from a wide array of industry, encompassing decades of experience implementing Lean Six Sigma in every economic climate, in companies of every size, The Lean Six Sigma Guide to Doing More with Less will give your business an intelligent edge in lean times.
Ch. 1 Why Use Lean Six Sigma to Reduce CostSpotlight #1: How to Use This BookPt. I Process Cost Reduction: A focus on waste eliminationCh. 2 Find Cost Reduction Opportunities in WasteSpotlight #2: Special Tips for Non-manufacturing ProcessesCh. 3 Use the Voice of the Customer to Identify Cost-Cutting OpportunitiesCh. 4 Make Processes Transparent to Expose WasteCh. 5 Measure Process Efficiency: Finding the Levers of Waste ReductionCh. 6 Improve Your Analysis Skills: How Understanding Variation, Root Causes, and Factor Relationships Can Help You Cut CostsCh. 7 Make Rapid Improvements through KaizensPt. II Raising the Stakes: Reducing Costs at an Enterprise LevelCh. 8 Think Transformation, Not Just ImprovementSpotlight #4: Transformation at Owens-IllinoisCh. 9 Unlock the Secrets to Speed and FlexibilityCh. 10 Reduce the Cost of ComplexityCh. 11 Look Outside Your Four Walls to Lower Costs InsidePt. III Speeding up Deployment Returns: Strategies for Getting More, Faster from a Lean Six Sigma DeploymentCh. 12 Create a Pipeline of Cost Improvement Projects: The Secret to Protecting the Heart of Your BusinessSpotlight #5: Link Projects to Value DriversCh. 13 Smooth the Path Through ChangeCh. 14 Establishing a Center of ExcellenceCh. 15 Gaining New Perspectives on Deployment Cost and Speed OpportunitiesCh. 16 Reenergizing a Legacy ProgramIndex
