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Machine generated contents note: Part One. The Lean Six Sigma Value Proposition -- 1. Lean Six Sigma: Creating Breakthrough -- Profit Performance -- The Roadmap to Higher Shareholder Value -- The Lean Six Sigma Secret -- The Lean Six Sigma Value Proposition -- Lean Six Sigma and MRP -- The Power Is in the Total Process -- To Learn More -- 2. Six Sigma: The Power of Culture -- Critical Success Factors for Six Sigma -- Predicting Team Success, Preventing Team Failure -- The Six Sigma Process and Improvement Tools -- The Role of Six Sigma as a Metric -- The Key Is in the Culture -- Key Messages of Six Sigma -- To Learn More -- 3. Lean Means Speed -- Is This Lean? -- The Essentials of Lean -- The Lean Metric: Cycle Efficiency -- Velocity of Any Process -- Knowing Where to Focus: The 80/20 Rule -- Using a Value Stream Map to Find the 20% Waste -- The Major Lean Improvement Tools -- The Lean Enterprise -- Epilogue on Ford -- The Laws of Lean Six Sigma -- To Learn More -- 4. Creating Competitive Advantage with -- Lean Six Sigma -- The Need for Executive Engagement -- Value Stream Selection a la Warren Buffett -- Competing with Lean Six Sigma -- Part Two. The Lean Six Sigma Implementation -- Process -- 5. Initiation: Getting Commitment from Top -- Management -- Laying the Groundwork -- Leadership Engagement -- The Next Moves -- 6. Infrastructure and Deployment Planning -- Plan Components and Typical Timelines -- The Detailed Deployment Plan -- A. Process Focus -- B. Organizational Structures -- C. Measures -- D. Rewards and Recognition -- E. Infrastructure Tools -- Completing the Deployment Plan -- 7. Kickoff: Establishing the Vision Company-Wide -- Structure of the Transforming Event -- A. CEO Presentation -- B. Design Team Presentation -- C. "Testimonials" from Experienced Companies -- D. Simulation -- E. Launch Preparations -- The Cascade of Transforming Events -- Achieving a Company-Wide Vision -- Only the Beginning-- 8. Selecting the Right People-and the -- Right Projects -- Selecting Black Belt Resources -- Selecting Projects -- The Language of Project Selection -- Who Does What -- Diagnostic Processes for Project Identification -- Top-Down Project Identification -- Bottom-Up Project Identification -- Grouping and Screening Ideas -- Project Definition and Scoping -- Final Project Selections -- Projects Suitable for Lean Six Sigma -- Selecting the Right Resources and Projects -- 9. Predicting and Improving Team Performance -- Understanding Individual Performance -- Preferred Team Roles as Predictors of Team -- Success or Failure -- Applying Belbin's Research -- The Importance of Team Leadership -- Implications for Black Belt Training -- 10. Implementation: The DMAIC -- Improvement Process -- The Context of Improvement -- The DMAIC Process and Its Tools -- A Walk Through DMAIC -- Developing Focus: The DMAIC Filter -- Big Gains with Simple Tools: Two Examples -- Implications for Black Belt Training -- 11. Implementation: The DMAIC Tools -- Define Tools -- Measure Tools -- Analyze Tools -- Improve Tools -- Control Tools -- Using the Lean Six Sigma Tools -- 12. Institutionalizing Lean Six Sigma -- Institutionalization -- Planning for Each Business Unit Launch -- The Executive's Role -- Emphasizing the Ultimate Goals -- Part Three. Leveraging Lean Six Sigma -- 13. Total Supply Chain Acceleration -- Part A: Accelerating Your Internal Supply Chain -- Part B: Extending the Enterprise to Suppliers -- Part C: The Downstream Pull System -- 14. Lean Six Sigma Logistics -- Inventory and Strategic Goals -- Inventory and The Cost of Production -- Fundamental Logistics Cost Drivers -- Lean Manufacturing, Raw Materials, and -- Inventory Management -- Implementing Lean Logistics -- Challenges of Lean Logistics -- 15. Design for Lean Six Sigma -- The Case for Applying Lean Six Sigma -- to the Design Process -- Improving Design Velocity -- Design for Lean Six Sigma -- Final Thoughts on Lean Six Sigma and -- Product Development.