Rath & Strong Announces the Eagerly Awaited Rath & Strong’s Lean Pocket Guide

LEXINGTON, MA – 3/30/06 – Rath & Strong, authors of the WALL STREET JOURNAL’S Best Selling Rath & Strong’s Six Sigma Pocket Guide is please to announce its new Lean Pocket Guide. Rath & Strong’s Lean Pocket Guide joins a star-studded line up of indispensable pocket guides from the leader in Lean and Six Sigma. Rath & Strong’s Lean Booster program established Rath & Strong as the first firm to develop an approach to Lean that follows the problem-solving DMAIC methodology, and created a groundswell of demand for a Lean Pocket Guide that distilled that breakthrough.

“This is a lean approach to getting meaningful results fast with Lean! Now there’s a practical, time-saving guide to Lean in our famous format that will make our clients, and the Lean market, very happy,”  commented Charlene Adair, Senior Associate, Rath & Strong, a renowned “hands-on” leader in Lean and author of Rath & Strong’s Lean Pocket Guide.

Packed with tools and clear instruction, this hands-on guide could only have been created by the firm grounded in process improvement history and experience while being the innovators of the future. Rath & Strong pioneered Lean by helping bring this powerful concept to the West in the 1970’s, created work cells modeled after the Toyota Production System, and became the world leader of Just-In-Time. Long before other firms, Rath & Strong applied Lean to services, transactions, and administrative processes and integrated Lean and Six Sigma.

Rath & Strong’s ground-breaking approach to Lean makes it easy to integrate Lean and Six Sigma, and the step-by-step approach in this guide will make it an integral part of improvement efforts – no matter where your organization is in the improvement process.

Rath & Strong’s Lean Pocket Guide provides your teams with concise, easy-to-access, and hands-on instruction for understanding Lean and implementing improvement projects. The guide provides short, effective descriptions of the most commonly-used tools, never getting bogged down in unnecessary theory and detail. Rath & Strong’s mini-guide breaks down the methodology as it applies to product, services, or transactional processes. 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. In addition, an index for important terms, principles, and tools make finding what you need instantaneous. 

Weighing less than 4 oz., in the mini-size of just 5.5 x 3.9 x 0.4 inches, the Guide is small, slips into a pocket, purse, or briefcase, handy whenever needed.