Lean Six Sigma: Welcoming a New Business Standard to the Catalog
Check our catalog resource, Lean Six Sigma: Enhancing Competitiveness and Customer Value. This high-quality resource is written by a world-class authorship team, with Ednilson Bernardes as author lead and joined by Stanley E. Fawcett, Stephenie Eckerd, Henry Jin, and Stephen Rutner, and will benefit students and instructors alike.
Lean Six Sigma has been the conversation point as companies all over the world ask the question: Is this approach the answer to twenty-first-century supply chain dilemmas?
The answer: Companies need efficient and effective processes—which is the heart of what Lean Six Sigma is. If anything, this approach has become more important than ever before as companies determine how to make robust and catastrophe-proofed supply chains. There’s no more valuable time for students to learn about all sides of Lean Six Sigma; this resource shows students how to implement the concept for today’s world, setting them up for success.
Operational Excellence, Toolkit, and Implementation
This resource is split into three main topics: Operational Excellence, the Toolkit, and Implementation. Not only does this resource cover the practical sides of this approach, but it discusses how to lead effective change and emphasizes continuous improvement, teaching students how to adapt as the world changes.
Our resource approaches Lean Six Sigma as a journey for business professionals, entrepreneurs, and future leaders fully committed to improving, innovating, and ensuring the continued success of their organizations.
The authors approach this powerful managerial body of knowledge from a practical, rather than merely a theoretical perspective. As a result, this resource covers the entire scope of a new way of thinking needed for ready application in organizational settings, from human dynamics, principles, methods, tools, processes, and best practices all covered in 16 topics.
Lean Six Sigma Resource Topics
- Competing on Operational Excellence
- Lean as Competitive Advantage
- Quality as Competitive Advantage
- Innovation as Competitive Advantage
- Lean Process Design: The Basic Lean Tools
- Value Stream Mapping
- DMAIC—Define
- DMAIC—Measure
- DMAIC—Analyze
- DMAIC—Improve
- DMAIC—Control
- Cultivating a Continuous Improvement Culture
- Leading Change: The Essence of Lean Six Sigma
- Building Momentum for Lean Six Sigma
- Lean Six Sigma Across the Supply Chain
- The Future of Lean Six Sigma
With high-class content, instructor materials, and all the standard tools that you find within a MyEducator resource, this resource is a can’t-miss for instructors. Check out Lean Six Sigma: Enhancing Competitiveness and Customer Value.

