Driving Operational Excellence: Successful Lean Six Sigma Secrets to Improve the Bottom Line

PRLog (Press Release) - Oct. 31, 2011 - “Driving Operational Excellence provides key insights to understand the linkages between business financial performance, customer advocacy and loyalty, and the culture of empowered high performance employees. It delivers tactical advice for companies of all sizes and in every business on the inflections and practices needed to develop and implement specific policies and processes that produce superior business outcomes. It should be required reading for every business decision maker.” ~ Robert Doran, Loyalty Performance Manager, Nissan North America

Driving Operational Excellence: Successful Lean Six Sigma Secrets to Improve the Bottom Line has hit the Amazon Best Seller list thanks to its timely lessons for business professionals about how to navigate the ongoing challenges of this economy. Penned by twenty-four expert authors and compiled by Ron Crabtree, renowned subject matter expert in Lean Six Sigma, Supply Chain, and Lean Supply Chain, the book uncovers top business strategies and tactics for creating Lean speed and Six Sigma quality in any organization, including non-profits. The book is organized into five major sections: “Strategy,” “Methodology,” “Universal Tools,” “Specific Tools,” and “The Future.” Representative chapters include “Lean Thinking 101: What Is Lean?”, “Daily Management: The Foundation for High Performance Organizations,” “The Continuous Improvement Routine: Your Key to Achieving Operational Excellence,” “Lean Six Sigma for a Leaner Supply Chain,” and “Taking Continuous Improvement into the Future.” Notes Crabtree, “This book stands out as a much-needed help for everyone from executives to middle managers and C-level personnel. Business leaders have been asking us for condensed, easy-to-follow steps in order to drive real and lasting changes in their organizations. This book gets to the heart of what business professionals need.”

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Author: Ron Crabtree, CPIM, CIRM, CSCP, MLSSBB is president of MetaOps, Inc., and the co-author of four books on operational excellence. Published in multiple business publications to a global audience, he has authored APICS magazine’s Lean Culture section for the last eight years. He serves as an adjunct faculty member for Villanova University and the University of San Francisco as the lead subject matter expert in Lean Six Sigma, Supply Chain, and Lean Supply Chain.

Other Professional Authors in Book Include: Charles Shillingburg, Bill Artzberger, Forrest W. Breyfogle III, Kendall Scheer, Dave Goodman, Sheree Lavelle, David Dubinsky, Jeff Cole, Steven Pfeiffer, Ron Chandler, Matt Stewart, Ira Weissman, Karen Young, Gary Wickett, Mike Bresko, Lorraine Marzilli Lomas, Pamela D. Gladwell, Joann O. Parrinder, Steve Cimorelli, Andres H. Slack, James H. Hardin.