Lean and Six Sigma initiatives are designed to enable sustained improvements in your company or organization's efficiency and competitiveness. As with other improvement strategies they are dependent on two things, effective management and your ability to automate or digitize elements of your business process. Lean and Digitize provides you with a convincing picture of each of these elements (process improvement, digitization and the management of both) to help you eliminate waste, improve process and service, and better align your information and communications technology with your strategic objectives. Bernardo Nicoletti analyses and reviews the development of automation and telecommunications systems in the context of quality management and process improvement. He uses case examples to illustrate organizational and management approaches to implementation. These, along with his practical guidance, will help you make sense of the complexity, benefits and interrelations between these different elements. The text shows you on the one hand, how to integrate information and communication systems into your process improvement projects and, on the other, how to align information and communication projects with your quality strategy. Without a holistic approach to technology and quality improvement, your initiatives run the risk of being misdirected or simply running out of steam. Changes of this kind will never be easy but at least if you follow the advice in Lean and Digitize you will significantly increase your chances of success.

Chapter 1 Introduction to Lean Thinking and Lean Six Sigma; Part I The Theory of Lean and Digitize; Chapter 2 Information Communication and Technology and Process Improvement; Chapter 3 The Lean and Digitize Method; Chapter 4 The Approach to Lean and Digitize; Chapter 5 Managing a Lean and Digitize Project; Part II Implementing Lean and Digitize; Chapter 6 Organizing for Lean and Digitize; Chapter 7 Project Communication; Chapter 8 Information Systems; Part III Lean and Digitize in Action; Chapter 9 Lean and Digitize in Manufacturing; Chapter 10 Lean and Digitize in Services; Chapter 11 The Future of Lean and Digitize;