Six Sigma is the most common - and perhaps least understood - methodology for streamlining processes in manufacturing, service delivery, management, and almost any other business activity. For business leaders seeking increased efficiency and customer service, Six Sigma is the key. Written specifically for Six Sigma beginners - whether they’re small business owners who want to implement Six Sigma or professionals and students who need to get up to speed fast - Six Sigma for Dummies is the most straightforward, non-intimidating guide on the market.

Operations management is a critical skill for all current and aspiring business leaders. Now, Operations Management for Dummies takes the guesswork out of this often-intimidating subject. Whether you are a professional just promoted into your first operations management job who needs to learn operations fast or your aim is to score your highest in an undergraduate or MBA operations management class, the plain-English, step-by-step information in Operations Management for Dummies gives you the critical toolkit for operations success. 

In this book series, you will find the best books to improve, expand and master your knowledge of the Lean methodology. Change the way you do business. This collection of books will help you to virtually improve the products you sell, the customer service you provide and the waste you have achieved.

The missing link to long-term Lean success! Despite the fact that companies worldwide have adopted Lean production, none has sustained the same levels of excellence as Toyota. Why? Leadership. In The Toyota Way to Lean Leadership, Jeffrey Liker and Gary L. Convis, a former executive V.P. and managing officer of Toyota, help executives and senior managers get employees to refocus their efforts - from simply performing their singular function to continuously improving in collaboration across the organization.

This audiobook will explain everything about Agile project management, starting from how to comprehend what it is, what it does, how it works, how it may be useful to you, how to begin utilizing it, what are the ramifications of the selection, and significantly more.

By the man who helped invent the red-hot management process known as "Scrum", Scrum unveils what is wrong with the way we currently do work, and how a simple set of principles, applied in exactly the right sequence, can accelerate productivity and quality as much as 1200 percent. Scrum (which gets its name from the formation in rugby in which the whole team locks its arms to gain control of the ball) is the reason that Amazon can launch a new feature on its website every day.

Is your team always stressed out? Are the priorities set by your management unclear? Are you unsure of what every member of the team is working on? If the answer to any of the above questions is yes, then this book will guide you to success. Kanban is a tool that helps teams and organizations concentrate on work and create a shared focus across different departments. It was developed by Taiichi Ohno in the late 1940s to improve the work done by the manufacturing department in Toyota. David Anderson defined the method when he used the tool to improve software development in the IT industry. It is becoming a popular way to visualize the workflow and also limit any work-in-progress items in different industries.

Most startups fail. But many of those failures are preventable. The Lean Startup is a new approach being adopted across the globe, changing the way companies are built and new products are launched.

UCLA psychologist and organizational consultant Dr. Robert Maurer provides a simple and proven effective technique for making major changes with minimal disruption. Applying the operational concept of kaizen - small, continual improvements - to common management challenges, managers can drive major improvements with a series of well-planned techniques for boosting quality, innovation, sales, and morale.

Every business wishes to provide an exceptional product to their customers. They want to be able to do this and meet their customers' needs, while also reducing costs to ensure profits stay as high as possible. But in many companies, there is a level of waste and inefficiency that shouldn’t be there. The result is a product that is of lower quality than the customer wants, more cost, and just more of a hassle for everyone involved. Lean Six Sigma is a process that can help to get all of this under control.

Is efficiency and effectiveness at the forefront of your mind when it comes to business? Do you want to retain the quality that your provide but also increase profit margins? Lean Six Sigma can help you do it all! The world of business is as competitive and brutal as it has ever been, but each and every one still has to make profits, whether market conditions are good or bad. Retaining the quality advantage over a competitor can mean the difference between success and a business going to the wall. But how do you still find ways to keep customers happy while streamlining what you do.

Womack and Jones, the authors of The Machine That Changed the World and creators of the "lean enterprise" theory, take leanness to the next step with a focus on what the customer really wants, not what it is possible to get him to accept. This is the management book for the next business generation.

Get into the world of Lean Six Sigma to understand all the opportunities and benefits it possesses for your business. If you want to utilize the Lean Six Sigma methodology, what you really need is a book that lays everything out, from A to Z, with what to do at every step along the way. This audiobook however, provides all that, and even more. 

Do you want to be aware of the best organizational strategy, Lean Six Sigma, and all of its aspects? Do you want to know about its benefits as well as its criticisms? Do you want to know about the main processing cycles included in the efficiency and productivity of any organization? If any of your answers is yes, then listen to this audiobook. It will help you to get all ideas about Lean Six Sigma and its specialties.

Multiple Shingo Award-winning management and operations expert Jeffrey K. Liker provides a deep dive into Toyota's world-changing processes, showing how you can learn from it to develop your own improvement program that fits your conditions. Thanks in large part to this book, managers across the globe are creating workforces and systems that produce the highest-quality products and services, establish and retain customer loyalty, and drive business profitability and sustainability.