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About the book:

Lean Sigma delivers results — if you use the right tools and techniques. In this thoroughly updated edition, Ian Wedgwood details his proven best-practices from more than sixty successful Six Sigma and Lean deployments in multiple industries, helping you identify and apply the solutions that will work best in your projects.

This expanded edition offers detailed guidance on process improvement, standardization, accelerated improvement, and more. Wedgwood helps you identify potential Lean Sigma projects, even in processes without obvious targets. He illuminates fast, effective routes to solving specific business problems, and explains why these solutions work.

The book includes 62 detailed “tools roadmaps”: step-by-step instructions showing exactly how and when to use each of these techniques.

  • 5 Whys
  • Demand profiling
  • Process FMEA
  • 5S
  • Demand segmentation
  • Process scorecard
  • Affinity
  • DOE
  • Process variables (I/O) map
  • Anova
  • Fishbone diagram
  • Project charter
  • Box plot
  • Handoff map
  • Pull systems & Kanban
  • Capability
  • KPOVs & data
  • Rapid changeover (SMED)
  • C&E matrix
  • Load chart
  • Regression
  • Chi-Square
  • MSAs
  • SIPOC
  • Concept ideation, design, selection
  • Multi-Cycle analysis
  • Spaghetti map
  • Control charts
  • Multi-Vari studies
  • Standard work instructions
  • Control plan
  • Murphy’s analysis
  • SPC
  • Core process map
  • Normality test
  • Swimlane map
  • Critical path analysis
  • OEE
  • Test of equal variance
  • Customer interviewing
  • Pareto chart
  • Time
  • Customer requirements tree
  • Process performance management
  • Total productive maintenance
  • Customer surveys
  • Poka Yoke
  • T-tests
  • D-Study
  • Process board
  • Value stream map
With this guide Green, Black, or Master Black Belts will benefit from decades of Six Sigma and Lean consulting experience.

For more information on purchasing Lean Sigma, A Practitioner’s Guide (Second Edition), complete the form on this page, or call our customer support team at 1-888-212-3121.

The available books in the Lean Sigma series include the following print and digital e-books titles:

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Lean Sigma, A Practitioner's Guide
Second Edition
Print Paperback
ISBN: 978-1-71147-250-8
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Lean Sigma, A Practitioner's Guide
Second Edition
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ISBN: 978-1-71147-246-1
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Lean Sigma: Rebuilding Capability in Healthcare
First Edition
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ISBN: 978-1-71147-251-5
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Lean Sigma: Rebuilding Capability in Healthcare
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ISBN: 978-1-71147-248-5
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Lean Sigma, Rebuilding Capability in Healthcare

Drive Lean Sigma Performance Improvement into Any Hospital or Healthcare Environment
 
“The Affordable Care Act (ACA) looks like it is around to stay. It will require hospitals and other healthcare organizations to become ruthlessly efficient to survive reimbursement rate reductions. Even if ACA fell, managed care organizations have caught on. They will leverage patient volume to drive reimbursement rates steadily down. Medicare and Medicaid will follow. Lean Sigma may not be the only way healthcare organizations will survive, but it’s a proven solution. In Lean Sigma—Rebuilding Capability in Healthcare, Dr. Wedgwood has presented a roadmap to successful implementation of Lean Sigma.” —Richard H. Allen, Dr.P.H., Allen & Allen Consulting, LLC
 
Lean Sigma, widely proven in other industries, can offer even greater value in healthcare. In this guide, Ian Wedgwood walks you through all leadership aspects associated with planning, executing, sustaining, or reinvigorating Lean Sigma in your hospital, system, or clinic.

Drawing on his extensive experience helping healthcare organizations improve, Wedgwood explains Lean Sigma without “stat speak.” Focusing on care providers’ unique challenges, he offers a practical roadmap for making Lean or Six Sigma work. He demonstrates it through real case studies, illuminating key facets of change that are too often ignored.

Lean Sigma, Rebuilding Capability in Healthcare includes:
 
  • How failure points in conventional change methods prevent performance improvement
  • Lean Sigma’s structured change approach: why infrastructure and sequencing matter so much
  • Integrating Lean Sigma with strategy and operations
  • Elevating individual process performance
  • Launching a Lean Sigma program or revitalizing a stalled initiative
  • Learning from experience, and increasing program maturity
Whatever your Lean Sigma leadership role—from patient-facing staff to senior executive to performance improvement specialist—this guide gives you an indispensable foundation for success.
 
For more information on purchasing Lean Sigma, Rebuilding Capability in Healthcare, complete the form on this page, or call our customer support team at 1-888-212-3121.
 

About the Author

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Ian Wedgwood
The author, Ian Wedgwood, Ph.D., President/CEO of Haelan Group, LLC,, has more than twenty years of experience guiding organizations through change. He has led and facilitated dozens of Lean Sigma deployments in industries that include healthcare, electronics, engineered materials, chemicals, banking, and hospitality; and has trained and mentored executives, Champions, and Belts. He holds a Ph.D. and a First-Class Honors degree in applied mathematics from Scotland’s St. Andrew’s University, and serves on the faculty of Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business.

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