Six Sigma Professor

Review by Dan Feliciano for Transactional Six Sigma and Lean Servicing: Leveraging Manufacturing Concepts to Achieve World-Class Service
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!After having read this book in greater detail a second time I felt obligated to rewrite my review!
Transactional Six Sigma and Lean Servicing is an easy read and laid exceptionally well. If you want to learn how to apply six sigma without all the rollout hoop-la this is a good book for you.
Too many of the newer books spend too much time discussing the road map of a full blown roll-out but lets face it, most of the people purchasing six sigma books are probably trying to apply the DMAIC problem solving approach on their own. If you’re one of these people this book is for you.

Since I work in a transactional environment, I thought the Lean Servicing portion of the book, one chapter, would contain some good tips or new insight that I could apply to my gigs, but I was disappointed. The chapter simply describes how to perform a good process analysis.However, I did enjoy the chapters (1.5 and 1.6) that discussed the history of quality and six sigma. These chapters are very well written and very, very interesting.Betsi did a masterful job describing DOE and basic statistics in simple terms.I can’t believe how many times I find myself using this book as a reference tool!!

Review by Penelope Brockwell for Transactional Six Sigma and Lean Servicing: Leveraging Manufacturing Concepts to Achieve World-Class Service
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Finally, a book for the rest of us! I work for a large urban hospital who is thinking about implementing six sigma but everything that’s out there is geared toward manufacturing. Ehrlich’s book on transactional six sigma is exactly what our management team needs to understand how the six sigma methods can be used in our medical center. The writing is clear and understandable, the examples are great, and she takes the time to explain to those of us without a heavy statistics background the underpinnings of the statistical tools used in six sigma. As the Quality Assurance manager who has been tasked with researching the benefits of six sigma, I plan to have our entire executive staff read this book and expect them to be as enthused as I am after gaining a greater understanding of how the program works in a service organization.

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I bought the book to learn about Lean Servicing. While Lean Servicing is 50% of the title, it is less than 10% of the text. Just one case study/example.

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Being a certified MBB I was looking for something with more substance. A typical off the shelf book regading Six Sigma methodology and application. I was expecting more from the lean perspective and it absolutely failed at delivering anything regading lean processing. Just another hype to sell the lean manufacturing priciple with a poor execution.

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If you are a Six Sigma novice or a new Black Belt or Green Belt, this is the book for you! Ehrlich’s book takes the mystery out of Six Sigma by explaining the concepts of using Six Sigma and Lean in the service industry succinctly and accurately. The book has great servicing examples that make the concepts very easy to comprehend.I highly recommend this book and intend to make it a “must read” for my associates.