"The Lean Six Sigma Pocket Toolbook: 100 Tools for Improving Quality and Speed with Quick Reference Guide"

Nkulu: The book looks great, no transport damage whatsoever.

Germany on Oct 14, 2023

AmazonFan34: I was taking a course at my job for lean six sigma. This book was required. It definitely teaches you what you need to know.

United States on Aug 12, 2023

Cefnar: No question this book was made by very knowledgeable authors since it has very helpful tools and explanations. The only two considerations I have are:

This book will be most useful for people who are already acquainted with Lean Six Sigma, for the rest, it will give you an idea but the impact will not be the same.

Finally, to me, it would have been more helpful if the author had included business cases explaining a problem and how a tool was used to resolve it.

The book itself is good, no doubt about it, it is just that not all audiences will relate to the information.

United States on Jul 30, 2023

Zakir: Doesnt cover all the topics and could have been more organised.

Australia on Jul 15, 2023

MANOELMANOEL: Qualidade do produto e prazo atendido.

Brazil on Jul 14, 2023

Legrand: Outils du lean,afin de mieux les connaître.

France on Jan 06, 2023

Jezzaconsumer: This is a great book, I’ve borrowed from the library before and it was a mandatory text for a class that started in January. I ordered the first week of class (Jan 5) once I found out it was needed, and unfortunately this order was going to arrive by early February. however, this was even further delayed and did not arrive until after February 15... my course is 10 weeks and so I’m lucky that this book is extremely useful and relevant and I’m able to use it after this course, but for the purposes of this course I’m only able to use it now for two more weeks(!!!).

Unhappy with the delivery service level but book is an excellent reference.

Canada on Feb 19, 2021

Chaz Turbino: The Lean Six Sigma Pocket Toolbook

I purchased this pocket toolbook knowing it wouldn't be a comprehensive book discussing the theories, principles, and background of Lean principles. I have taken numerous Master and Doctorate level courses related to Production and Manufacturing, so I have an understanding of DMAIC and lean six sigma. I only wanted the pocket guide for selecting the right tools to achieve the tollgate deliverables for projects at work, and as a quick reference (Cliff Notes so to speak) for each of the tollgates.

As a result, I feel this book succeeds as being a pocket guide. It isn't a full textbook but it is detailed enough to get the job done. The various tools featured in the book (value added analysis, fishbone diagram, Pareto charts, etc... are valuable as they are presented in a high-level format to guide you towards the tollgate deliverables.

Overall: 5/5 stars, should be sitting on your shelf if you work with LSS projects at work.

United States on Apr 24, 2012

Erik Gfesser: This text is simply the best of the various pocket Six Sigma tool guides currently available in the marketplace. Although this book is a quick reference guide as the subtitle suggests, there is enough substance here for it to walk on legs and provide learning material for those readers already familiar with basic quality concepts. Quite honestly, I am not sure how the authors arrived at the "Nearly 100 Tools" portion of the subtitle, because the tools presented here can be numbered in various ways. However, this aspect really does not matter. What matters is that all of the major Six Sigma tools are presented with a lot of nice diagrams, graphs, and other figures to give the reader a good sense of the fundamentals of any given tool. These well-encapsulated nuggets of information should serve as excellent memory joggers for some, and good starting points for those needing additional detail available in other texts or online resources. Especially helpful are the numerous brief "tips" sections throughout that point novices in the right direction. Note that the organization of the book might not be well suited for some, because it is not ordered according to the customary steps of the...

United States on May 26, 2007

Douglas Jones: This pocket toolbook hits the "sweet spot" as a quick reference guide for lean six sigma practitioners. Don't expect this to be an in-depth treatment of the 70+ tools covered in this book. If you're new to the lean/six sigma disciplines, you need to start someplace else. However, if you are currently working in these disciplines and you need a reference with enough meat to remind you of how/why/when a particular tool should be used and also a little of the statistical foundations supporting the tool, then you will find this to be a very valuable book to own. I own just about all of the "pocket guides" and I often find them to be a little too cryptic and abbreviated to meet my needs. This book is a very nice middle ground between the often complex and verbose "learning textbooks" and the often times overly brief pocket guides. As with any first edition, there are some errors that slipped through the editing process, but I can still highly recommend this book as one to keep handy when your out there fighting those "quality and productivity" battles.

United States on Nov 05, 2004