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Rath & Strong’s new Integrated Lean Six Sigma Pocket Guide is the newest contribution from the Wall Street Journal best-selling publisher of the world’s leading Lean and Six Sigma pocket guides. While today at the forefront of business process improvement at companies worldwide, as a firm with a unique pioneering history, Rath & Strong brings insight, depth, and hands-on, practical experience to the integration of these leading methodologies. Read more...

From the overwhelming success of our first Champions pocket guide comes Rath & Strong's Lean Six Sigma Champions Pocket Guide! This pocket guide is written to provide Lean Six Sigma project Champions with practical advice and tools to help effectively Lean Six Sigma initiatives in general. Read more...

This pocket guide provides your teams with concise, easy-to-access, and hands-on instruction for understanding Lean and implementing improvement projects. Read more...

The tools and methods that most people learn in their Lean training are only a part of the Toyota Production System (TPS), and many would say a minor part. Toyota considers them only “countermeasures” to the problems they have encountered and not universal solutions. This DVD helps you to better understand TPS so that you can begin to realize the long-term benefits that are possible, and the need to move beyond these specific tools and methods to get to the more fundamental aspects of the system. Read more...

The updated classic and bestselling Rath & Strong Six Sigma Pocket Guide. Rath & Strong's Pocket Guide is designed to help ... Read more...

An alarming number of Six Sigma projects are failing--not because of misuse of Six Sigma's statistical tools but because of internal politics and poor communication between team members and the rest of the organization. The Rath & Strong's Six Sigma Team Pocket Guide helps team leaders and members reverse this trend, explaining the interpersonal and political skills needed to make each Six Sigma project a success. Read more...

Rath & Strong's Lean Road Map is the first of its kind to take you step by step through the process of implementing Lean in product, services, or transactional processes — all within the DMAIC problem-solving methodology. The clear steps and critically-needed and easy-to-follow methodology showing which tools are typically employed at each phase make Lean doable in any company to create flow, eliminate waste, and accelerate lead times in order to keep your Lean improvement efforts on track. On the reverse side of the Road Map, a step-by-step guide is provided to help with the development of Current State, Future State, and Extended Value Stream maps to guide your process and business improvement initiatives.

The first of its kind to truly integrate Lean and Six Sigma under the DMAIC problem-solving methodology. Now you can combine the power of Six Sigma to eliminate defects and variation with the power of Lean to eliminate waste and create continuous flow. This road map for Integrated Lean Six Sigma is ideal for both Manufacturing and Service industries and addresses all types of business processes whether they are transactional, office, service, or manufacturing. Read more...

Rath & Strong's Six Sigma DMAIC Road Map: 2nd Edition from the creators of the Best-Selling Six Sigma Pocket Guide! Black Belts, Green Belts, Sponsors, Champions, Stakeholders, Team Members- ALL find this laminated Road Map an invaluable resource for Six Sigma methods, tools, techniques- and Milestones for each step of the Six Sigma process. Read more...

Rath & Strong's Guide to MINITAB is a comprehensive User Guide to analyzing data using MINITAB Statistical Software. Beyond simply a description of how to use MINITAB, it outlines the logical thought process you can use to analyze real-world business problems, starting with the most general questions, and continually probing into more refined approaches and methods. Read more...

Rath & Strong's Guide to MINITAB is a comprehensive User Guide to analyzing data using MINITAB Statistical Software. Beyond simply a description of how to use MINITAB, it outlines the logical thought process you can use to analyze real-world business problems, starting with the most general questions, and continually probing into more refined approaches and methods. Read more...

This comprehensive resource focuses on the issues senior managers must face when considering Six Sigma as a key business strategy. It highlights the critical factors that make or break implementation, offers key best practices for getting it right the first time, and offers real-life examples and case studies that light the path to success. Read what industry leaders such as Dr. Juran (The Juran Institute), Dr. Mikel Harry (Six Sigma Academy), William Quinn (Johnson & Johnson), Bob Galvin (Motorola) and more have to say about their experience with the Six Sigma methodology and how it is used to great success in business today. Read more...

In its simplest sense, Playing To Win is consciously choosing to not automatically avoid situations in which we might fail, be embarrassed, or be rejected. Why on earth would we consciously choose to do something that could lead to failure, rejection, embarrassment, or worse? Because our goal is to grow. Playing To Win is concerned with engaging with life, with the desire to thrive on the adventure. Emotional, spiritual, and intellectual growth are the game's payoff. Read more...

This breakthrough video shows viewers how to determine which steps add value to a process and which do not. An excellent lesson in more efficient, lean six sigma-oriented delivery of products and services. Featuring Rath & Strong's John Guaspari and Ed Hay. Read more...

Minitab 15 gives you the statistical tools you need to analyze your data and improve quality in one easy-to-use package. It is the leading software used to implement Six Sigma worldwide.