Leading Holistic Improvement with Lean Six Sigma 2.0, 2nd edition

Leading Holistic Improvement with Lean Six Sigma 2.0 distills all that’s been learned about Six Sigma over the past three decades, helping readers build and execute on modern holistic strategies to radically improve processes and performance. It’s the definitive modern guide to Lean Six Sigma for executives, champions, Black Belts, Green Belts, and every stakeholder concerned with performance improvement. In addition, it notes the limitations of Lean Six Sigma and explains how to broaden deployments to true holistic improvement, integrating multiple improvement methodologies.

Renowned experts Ronald Snee and Roger Hoerl help readers launch or accelerate comprehensive “Lean Six Sigma 2.0” initiatives, integrating modern techniques to improve customer satisfaction, employee engagement, growth, and profitability across your organization. They introduce important recent advances in Lean Six Sigma theory and practice, and offer new case studies illuminating opportunities for holistic improvement. With an ideal mix of fundamental concepts and real-world case studies, the authors help readers broaden their portfolio of improvement methodologies, integrating systems for process management, control, and risk management.

• How to initially deploy a Lean Six Sigma plan that reflects your unique organization, and key lessons learned from the world's best implementations to date.
• How to avoid the common pitfalls that cause so many organizations to struggle with improvement initiatives.
• Every facet of Lean Six Sigma leadership including: strategy, goal setting, metrics, training, roles/responsibilities, processes, reporting, rewards, and ongoing management review.
• How to evolve a Lean Six Sigma deployment to true Holistic Improvement, the next level of improvement involving the whole organization and utilizing a diverse array of improvement methodologies, including Big Data analytics.
• How to use a focus on improvement as a leadership development tool.