| | |  | Theory of Constraints | Home » » » » The Ultimate Improvement Cycle: Maximizing Profits through the Integration of Lean, Six Sigma, and the Theory of Constraints | | | | | | | Description: | | Recognizing the need to implement quality and eliminate waste, companies embrace Lean, Six Sigma, or a combination of the two, typically taking a broad approach that seeks to remediate every process, critical or not. When this happens, efforts become distracted, improvements indefinitely delayed, and results mediocre at best. The Ultimate Improvement Cycle (UIC) integrates Lean, Six Sigma, and the Theory of Constraints into a combined strategy that will help you immediately focus your efforts on those areas that will make the greatest difference. The book presents basic laws of factory physics that show why the UIC delivers significant bottom-line improvement while other initiatives so often fail. It explains to you why focusing your efforts on apparent problems rather than systemic concerns is wasted effort. Focus on key areas and take improvement to the next level The Ultimate Improvement Cycle: Maximizing Profits through the Integration of Lean, Six Sigma, and the Theory of Constraints show you how to draw the best from Lean and Six Sigma by employing principles drawn from the Theory of Constraints. This approach will ensure that your effort is focused in the right place, at the right time, using the right tools, and the right amount of resources. This multi-pronged approach addresses cost accounting, variation, waste, and performance measurements. But most importantly, it focuses your organization on the right areas to optimize.
Applying years of hands-on work in many environments, Bob Sproull has developed a unique proven method that capitalizes on a time-release formula for evoking the key tools that improvement requires. He shows you how to take advantage of the cyclical nature of improvement to implement change that is perpetually effective, and his approach does not require more resources than you have on hand. Although originally developed in manufacturing, the UIC works equally well in any environment whether it be manufacturing or service-oriented, including Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) and Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM). | | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Bob Sproull | | Hardcover:
| 288 pages | | Publisher:
| Productivity Press | | Publication Date:
| March 11, 2009 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 1420090348 | | Product Width:
| 152.5 centimeters | | Product Height:
| 227.5 centimeters | | Product Weight:
| 1.3 pounds | | Package Length:
| 9.1 inches | | Package Width:
| 6.1 inches | | Package Height:
| 0.9 inches | | Package Weight:
| 1.3 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
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 UIC A Bit of DisappointmentMay 07, 2009
By Rene Fernandez
The title of the book is a good selling point. Unfortunately it suffers from a bit of superficialism and some Tables and Charts have several omissions like heads of columns. The overall concept is not bad but I would not recommend this book to a person who is not well versed in the language of Lean & TOC. I think a glossary of abbreviations would be a great help.
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 How to improve using the combined strengths of Lean, Six Sigma and TOCFeb 08, 2010
By Rolf Dobelli
"getAbstract"
Many business professionals have practiced Lean, Six Sigma and the Theory of Constraints. Many others have a working knowledge of the benefits, claims and limitations of these three widely acclaimed methods of improving business processes. Bob Sproull combines the strengths of these three methods into a blended set of process upgrades he calls the "Ultimate Improvement Cycle." If you are familiar with manufacturing operations and these various schools of thought on process improvement, the book's language, charts and graphs will be accessible and useful. It may rely too much on insider jargon and data for those who are new to the field, although many of the concepts apply to nonmanufacturing firms as well. getAbstract recommends this book to professionals with an operational orientation because they will best appreciate Sproull's refreshing approach to combining the three most common process-improvement methods.
 Delivers on what it promisesJun 24, 2010
By T. G. Griffin
"- The Griffin Group"
Sproul has a concise and direct style of writing that demonstrates that he knows what he is talking about. The book is for TOC and Lean practitioners, not people exploring either system. For a quick read on Lean, look at The Toyota Way; TOC, The Goal and It's Not Luck. A great handbook and field guide, UIC could be a technical companion to the TLS (TOC, Lean, Six Sigma)novel Velocity; highly reccomended. This book is great brain food if you are serious about process improvement.
Very Helpful BookJun 18, 2009
By N. Thompson
The UIC is an excellent book because it takes the concepts of Lean, Six Sigma, and TOC and strategically combines them into a tool that can be used by any organization from manufacturing to MRO operations. I have seen firsthand how combining Lean, Six Sigma and TOC will result in huge savings that any one method alone may not achieve. This is a must read book for Senior Managers.
A great book to take the place of reading several booksMay 29, 2009
By Alexander Fedotowsky
"AlexSky"
This book provides valuable information that on would normally have find in three or more books. Explains the reason why many Lean, Six Sigma, and TOC are not successfully when these methods are isolated from each other and not integrated.
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