Books

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Lean Six Sigma simplifies the Lean Six Sigma journey, offering a clear roadmap for operational excellence. Part one explains the foundations of Lean Six Sigma—its origins, impact, and potential for your organization. Parts two and three provide a flexible, step-by-step approach for implementing improvements, with guidance on when and how to use essential tools like Pareto Charts and FMEA. Packed with templates, examples, and tips, this book is ideal for Green Belts, Black Belts, and leaders alike, helping you move from knowledge to real application and transformation.

Lean manufacturing isn't new, but many companies are still discovering how Lean principles can greatly improve both manufacturing and service processes. A Team Leaders Guide to Lean Kaizen Events helps organizations reduce process and product waste, and solve issues related to efficiency, workflow and resource balancing. Introducing a structured methodology called SCORE(TM), the book provides a blueprint and complete set of implementation aids for Lean projects that will prove invaluable for any organization.

Design for Lean Six Sigma is the only book that employs a "road-map" approach to DFSS, which allows corporate management to understand where they are in the process and to integrate DFSS methodology more fully into their overall business strategy. This is a similar approach to that used by Forrest Breyfogle in his successful book: "Implementing Six Sigma, 2E". This approach will allow corporate management to understand where they are in the process and to integrate DFSS methodology more fully into the overall business strategy. Another important aspect of this book is its coverage of DFSS implementation in a broad range of industries including service and manufacturing, plus the use of actual cases throughout.

Achieving success with organic growth demands more than ideas; it requires managers and employees who can execute a strong innovation system. The Innovator’s Toolkit offers over 50 essential tools for innovation, guiding users to identify opportunities, generate and refine ideas, and test solutions for market success.

Organized into a four-step methodology—define, discover, develop, and demonstrate—it covers techniques like Jobs to be Done, Ethnography, Trend Prediction, and Six Thinking Modes.

Now in its Second Edition, this updated guide includes new techniques to reduce innovation risks, fresh examples, and insights on why innovations often fail—and how to avoid that fate. Empower your team, minimize costly errors, and drive impactful innovation in your organization.

Innovation is central to business success, yet no other aspect of business is as frustrating and out of control. Instead of occurring in fits and starts and strokes of genius, innovation needs to become an all-the-time event that‘s measurable, reliable, predictable, streamlined, and effective. Structured innovation is a key goal for every organization whereby they more effectively meet the needs of customers and operate more efficiently. Insourcing Innovation demonstrates how to transform business using the theory of inventive problem solving (TRIZ) along with applicable tools and techniques. Providing a practical framework, this book presents the tactical and strategic aspects of TRIZ, its methodology, and its components. Real-world case studies illustrate how TRIZ can be applied in an organization. It also discusses how structured innovation is part of total performance excellence, examining key aspects of business excellence and how they are related.

Over the past few years, books like Zero to One, 10X Rule, 10X growth machine, Zero to IPO and many more have captured the entrepreneur's mind-space. They have undoubtedly propelled the new generation of entrepreneurs to think "Big" and "Non-Linear". The results are for all of us to see. Consumers have moved from being kings to emperors; however, the business results are a mixed bag, highly skewed towards the south. But, again, we are no one to judge. However, we believe that, based on the work we have done for the last 25+ years, the south skewness is because only a tiny portion of the businesses understand the relationship between thinking, execution, and its impact on the financial result. We try and decode these business genres (we believe running a business is like delivering an orchestrated performance every day, for years to come) and put forth the basis, the model and pros and cons of the businesses.

Leadership doesn’t live in speeches or strategies―it lives in what you do, especially when no one’s watching.

The Leader’s Behavior Lab reframes leadership as a pattern, not a position. It explores how everyday actions―your tone in meetings, presence under pressure, and silence in tense moments―shape the emotional blueprint of your culture.

Drawing from behavioral science and real-world experience, Dr. Shubhrangshu Barman Roy offers a practical guide to building trust, influence, and cultural clarity.

With tools like the Friction Spotting Canvas, Ask–Share–Shape Model, and Legacy Loop, this book helps leaders turn intent into impact.

For executives, emerging leaders, and change agents alike―this is a call to lead not through control, but through consistent, conscious behavior.

Because leadership isn’t what you say.

Fix the Factory, Not the Flowchart isn’t just another Lean book. It’s a battle cry.

For too long, we’ve mistaken tools for transformation―chasing certifications, dashboards, and playbooks while the real problems fester under fluorescent lights and forgotten people.

This book goes where most don’t: the floor, the hallway, the meeting room where hard truths live.

Through fierce stories, unfiltered insights, and rebel hacks, it exposes why most change fails―and how to lead with guts, not gimmicks.

If you’re done with surface-level Lean and ready to fix what really matters―this is your manifesto.

Because real Lean doesn’t live in templates.

It lives in people brave enough to change the system ― not just survive it.