Using Lean Six Sigma for strategic advantage in service. The ROI of Lean Six Sigma for services -- Getting faster to get better (why you need both Lean and Six Sigma) -- Success story #1 Lockheed Martin -- Seeing services through your customers' eyes -- Success story #2 Bank One -- Executing corporate strategy with Lean Six Sigma -- Success story #3 City of Fort Wayne, Indiana -- The value in conquering complexity -- Success story #4 Stanford Hospital and Clinics. Deploying Lean Six Sigma in service organizations. Phase 1: Readiness assessment -- Phase 2: Engagement (creating pull) -- Phase 3: Mobilization -- Phase 4: Performance & control. Improving services. Service process challenges -- Using DMAIC to improve service processes -- First wave service projects -- Raising the stakes in service process improvement -- Designing world-class services (design for Lean Six Sigma)
Summary
This text fills the need for a service-based approach; explaining how companies of all types can cost-effectively translate manufacturing-oriented Lean Six Sigma tools into the service delivery process. -- Edited summary from book
