"Lean Sigma by Ian Wedgwood delivers results — if you use the right tools and techniques. In this thoroughly updated edition, Ian Wedgwood details his proven best-practices from more than sixty successful Six Sigma and Lean deployments in multiple industries, helping you identify and apply the solutions that will work best in your projects.
This expanded edition offers detailed guidance on process improvement, standardization, accelerated improvement, and more. Wedgwood helps you identify potential Lean Sigma projects, even in processes without obvious targets. He illuminates fast, effective routes to solving specific business problems, and explains why these solutions work.
The book includes 62 detailed “tools roadmaps”: step-by-step instructions showing exactly how and when to use each of these techniques.
With this guide Green, Black, or Master Black Belts will benefit from decades of Six Sigma and Lean consulting experience.
The author, Ian Wedgwood, Ph.D., President/CEO of Haelan Group, LLC,, has more than twenty years of experience guiding organizations through change. He has led and facilitated dozens of Lean Sigma deployments in industries that include healthcare, electronics, engineered materials, chemicals, banking, and hospitality; and has trained and mentored executives, Champions, and Belts. He holds a Ph.D. and a First-Class Honors degree in applied mathematics from Scotland’s St. Andrew’s University, and serves on the faculty of Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business."