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Lean Six Sigma : Combining Six Sigma Quality with Lean Production Speed
by Michael L. George
from McGraw-Hill
Customer Reviews:
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 
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Excellent! 
There are innumerable ways to ineffectually "implement" (fail at) process improvement. George's book tells how to succeed.
Reducing lead times has just as much potential for improving performance as improving quality. Most of the methods and tools of Six sigma do not focus on time; similarly, those of Lean Production do not focus on quality. The purpose of the book is to show how to simultaneously improve cost, quality, speed, and invested capital. This is not accomplished by working faster, but by... more info
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Great anticipation brings great disappoitment 
Yes, you cannot judge a book by it's cover, but this book did not deliver on my expectations. If you are a senior manager, this book is for you as the vast majority of the book covers how you need to structure your organization, but not much real discussion of Lean or Six Sigma. This book provides a brief discussion of six sigma tools and almost no discussion of substance on Lean tools. It is a bad sell to tell a reader that a Black Belt should save $1,000,000 per year. After several lengthy discussions on... more info
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A well beyond decent introduction
Although the beginning of this book feels a little too "preachy" with a lot of arguments of why Lean Six Sigma is the best tool for ensuring maximum quality at highest speed with best profit, it actually is really good.
The author follows a red line throughout the book giving the reader no hard time following the concept of Lean Six Sigma. Compared to other books/guides of the same kind this is easily one of the better ones.
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Written for a specific audience ..
"Lean Six Sigma: Combining Six Sigma Quality with Lean Speed" is not a how-to book written for actual front-line practitioners of the techniques. Instead, George's effort is expressly directed to the possibly skeptical CEO who may be considering implementing a Lean/6 Sigma effort and who needs to know a bit more detail. As he says on page 70:
"One of the goals of this executive overview is to provide adequate depth . . . such that a rational CEO could judge whether this initiative is worthy of further... more info
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