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Lean Six Sigma for Higher Education (eBook)

Research and Practice

Jiju Antony, Raja Sreedharan V, Ayon Chakraborty (Herausgeber)

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2020
288 Seiten
World Scientific Publishing Company (Verlag)
978-1-78634-850-0 (ISBN)

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Lean Six Sigma is one of the operational excellence methodologies that has been widely adopted in manufacturing, service and healthcare sectors. There are few articles discussing Lean Six Sigma in the Higher Education context. This book is a collection of articles carefully edited by three academics and practitioners who are based in the Higher Education sector. The book contains state-of-the-art literature review articles, empirical studies, emerging trends on Lean Six Sigma in Higher Education and case study related papers.Lean Six Sigma for Higher Education caters to students, researchers and academics who are interested in understanding the rudimentary concepts of Lean Six Sigma. It also covers the challenges and barriers in implementation and sustenance of this powerful operational and service excellence methodology.Contents:

Use of Six Sigma and Lean Six Sigma Methodologies in Higher Education Institutions: A Systematic Review (Ahmed Al Kuwaiti)
Recognising Waste in Higher Education Institutions Using Lean Thinking (Jacqueline Ann Douglas, Jiju Antony, Maria Vinceza Ciasullo & Alexander Douglas)
Kaizen and Its Role in the Higher Education Sector (Ingo Kregel and André Coners)
Academic Leadership — Special or Simple (Stephen Anthony and Jiju Antony)
Continuous Improvement Practices in Higher Education (Vijaya Sunder M)
An Empirical Study into the Use of Continuous Improvement Practices in Saudi Arabian Universities (Saja Ahmed Albliwi and Jiju Antony)
Change Management Practices for LSS Deployment in Higher Education Institutions (Vijaya Sunder M)
Lean Six Sigma Leadership in Higher Education Institutions (Jing Lu, Arush Saxena, Chad Laux, Jenny Daugherty and Lin Qian)
A Study into the Evaluation of the Status of Lean and Six Sigma Practices in the UK Higher Education (Stephen Anthony and Jiju Antony)
The Lean Six Sigma Journey at University College Cork, Ireland: Key Results, Challenges, and Lessons Learned (Seamus O'Reilly, Joe Healy, Roan O'Dubhghaill and Tom Murphy)
Lean Six Sigma Journey in a UK Higher Education Institute: A Case Study (Jiju Antony, Stephanie Ashby, Abhijeet Ghadge and Elizabeth A Cudney)
Case Studies of Lean Six Sigma:
- Case A: Improving School Lunchroom Flow with Lean Six Sigma DMAIC (Sandra L Furterer, Emma Trappe and Saud Alshaikh)
- Case B: Applying Discrete Event Simulation with Lean Six Sigma to Improve the Lunchroom Flow in an Elementary School (Sandra L Furterer, Saud Alshaikh and Emma Trappe)
- Case C: Lean Six Sigma Improvement of Higher Education Student Hiring Processes (Sandra L Furterer and Michael Key)

Readership: Advanced undergraduate and graduate students, researchers and practitioners in the fields of Academia and Industry, Continuous Improvement professionals who are engaged in process improvement projects in Higher Education.Six Sigma;Higher Education;Systematic Literature Review;Lean;Kaizen;Academic Leadership;Quality;Big Data;Lean Six Sigma;Operational Excellence;Continuous Improvement;Case Study0Key Features:

There are no books on the topic of Lean Six Sigma in Higher Education sector in the market
The book is edited by leading academics who have been researching on Lean Six Sigma topics for several years
The book contents cover latest developments on the topics of Lean Six Sigma in Higher Education
The book can be valuable to all continuous improvement personnel in the Higher Education setting
The contributors are leading practitioners and academics in the field of Lean Six Sigma from various countries, giving an international flavour to various topics

Erscheint lt. Verlag	13.7.2020
Verlagsort	SG
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management
ISBN-10	1-78634-850-0 / 1786348500
ISBN-13	978-1-78634-850-0 / 9781786348500

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