The Lean Six Sigma Pocket Toolbook: A Quick Reference Guide to 100 Tools for Improving Quality and Speed 1st Edition

Great book. Small enough to carry in your work bag.

This book is easy to read and help you understand the basics of lean six sigma.

I have been using the LSS Pocket Toolbook for years, primarily in an instructional mode. No, it is not a book that is going to add any knowledge to an experienced quality resource as many reviews state, but it is a very good tool for teaching new CPI resources. I am currently in a teaching role where this book is handed out to every participant. In fact, if the books do not arrive in time, it is disruptive to the teaching flow. For most topics in the class there is an equivalent area of the Toolbook that I can first refer to before going into the main material. I have an established nightly reading plan that will take a participant through the entire book in the course of a two-week introductory CPI class. I teach some topics entirely from the Toolbook, for example, C&E Matrix and DoE. There are some key concept pages that we turn to and read together, for example, page 70 Types of Data, page 118 Types of Variation. The section on hypothesis testing provides some very good plain language descriptions of the basic concepts that help people get through the initial learning. I am on my third copy where I coil bind and add tabs for quick reference. I carry this book wherever I go when teaching or working on CPI projects; there are almost daily opportunities to open it and discuss some aspect of CPI. If I were to change anything about the book, I would make it flow in more of a DMAIC fashion with some additional information about the use of the tools in the context of a project. There is a section that does this to some extent, but somewhat general. Many minor typos remain in the book from the first edition, but no technical errors that I have found. The PDF version that has been around for some time is not formatted very well, with page breaks in the wrong locations and tables not converting well.

Good and quickly to delivery 😊👍No damage in the book.

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 DMAIC process. To some degree, the first chapter points to various sections of the book during its cursory walkthrough of the DMAIC process, although the street signs are not very well planned. Despite some minor flaws, this book serves its purpose well.

A nice small book to quickly look information up.

It's just as described. Good purchase.

I apologize for the shouting, but this book was assigned for my Six Sigma course, and there are constant references to PAGE NUMBERS both in the course and within the text itself. It's shocking to me that Kindle has not found a way to support original page numbers, substituting "Location" numbers that are only relative position information. This leaves the reader with a very painful situation of having to search the table of contents, which only works if the reference is the same as the topic you're searching for.The book itself is reasonably organized, although I keep feeling as though there was insufficient background and "flow." It is truly more of a reference than a text, in that you have to comprehend the material almost all at once, rather than being taught in a logical progression. Because it really is just a reference, it's even more crucial to be able to REFER to the list, definition, etc. on a certain PAGE in the book.I loathe paper books, since I have to carry many books with me at all times. But I cannot understand how reference books can be Kindle-published without usable page numbers.