Description
Mohit Sharma is a Genpact Certified Master Black Belt,│ ASQ Certified Black Belt and Motorolla Certified GB. He brings his wealth of experience into this book and shares information, insights, tips and case studies. 8 Steps to Problem Solving – Six Sigma is targeted at top and middle level management professionals. The objective of this book is to give the readers an overview on how to drive continuous improvement within their organisations. The author says in his introduction, “It is my sincere effort to provide readers real-time scenarios to make the learning process more practical. This is why the examples illustrated in this book are from real-life projects, either executed or mentored by me, in the past 15 years.”
8 Steps to Problem Solving – Six Sigma is a handy book for those who want to enhance their careers and their organisations. The real-life case studies and the solutions to problems organisations face have been succinctly outlined by Mr. Sharma to help readers drive persistent change and enhancement.
About the Author
Mohit Sharma is a certified Master black belt from Genpact and a certified Black belt & Green belt from ASQ and Motorola university. Lean Six Sigma is my intrinsic passion and a keen area of expertise. He has the privilege of being a member of the ASQ’s Technical Board for reviewing and approving LSS articles and manuscripts.
Combining his interest in writing with his LSS bug, he actively publishes White Papers and provides Thought leadership on Lean six sigma for both internal and external publications.
In his present role as a Country head, quality, is to develop continuous improvement culture in the organization.
Accomplishments:
• Received Commendable Project award for two of my mentored projects in Six sigma case study contest held by Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore 2017
• Received the prestigious Silver Award at QCI – DL Shah Quality Awards at National level 2016.
• Received SSON (Shared services & Outsourcing Network) excellence award and accolades from ASQ quality awards for two of my mentored projects in year14 -15
• Delivered 1500+ hours of six sigma DMAIC + lean trainings in last 4 years
• Published 10+ white papers in ASQ quality magazines and in isixsigma
• Designed and developed six sigma and lean training workshop for Keysight.
• Designed and developed DMAIC BB training program, and BPMS (Business Process management System) for Genpact.
• Coaching and Mentoring Quality Leader /Master Black Belt /Black Belt / Green Belt Projects
• Helped organization in revamping different LSS methodologies like Lean, DMAIC and BPMS
• Project re-engineering / Project standardization / Base lining
• Leading high impact Business Projects
Professional Certifications:
• Certified Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt from Genpact, 2013.
• Certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt from ASQ (American Society for Quality), 2008.
• Certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt from Genpact, 2011.
• Certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt trainer from Genpact, 2012.
• Certified Lean Six sigma Green Belt Trainer from Genpact, 2011.
• Certified Lean Six Sigma Green Belt from Motorola, 2005.
Topics Covered in the Book
• INTRODUCTION
• IDENTIFYING THE RIGHT PROJECT METRIC AND ITS IMPORTANCE
• ESTABLISH DRILL DOWN OF THE BUSINESS PROBLEM WITH THE PROJECT GOAL
• DEFINE THE PROJECT
Project Charter
COPIS
Potential Business Impact
ARMI Chart & Communication Plan
• MEASURE THE EXTENT OF PROBLEM
Identifying Potential Xs
Data Collection Plan
Gage R&R
• ANALYSE THE PROBLEM
Identifying Process Stability & Normality (Run Chart & Normality)
Identify Process Capability (Continuous & Discrete Data)
Data Analysis – Hypothesis Testing
• IMPROVE THE PROBLEM
Identifying Solutions
Prioritiszing Solutions
Identify Failure Modes and Apply Mitigates
Implement Solutions
• CONTROL THE IMPROVEMENTS
Check Result
Control Plan
Control Charts
• MENTORING AND EVALUATING LEAN SIX SIGMA PROJECTS – FOR BB (BLACK BELT)/MBB (MASTER BLACK BELT) MENTORS
Vishnu Chevli –
This is my first technical book review. I usually don’t take technical books for review, but the book being on such an important subject, a six sigma green belt, I gave a try to “8 Steps to Problem Solving – Six Sigma” by Mohit Sharma. Master Black Belt (MB) Mohit has given a wonderful cheat book style material to all the people working on the six sigma projects. As mentioned on the cover, the book is dedicated to quality control teams.
The book is direct to-the-point, a complete six sigma course material. All lengthy explanations in usual books on six sigma are given as compact pointers. The content is divided into 6 chapters. Each chapter is one step of six sigma project. Starting from project chart/identification to project control, every step is covered with all important pointers. The author has provided more than one example to explain each important point. The book reminded me of a marketing book by Kohler.
The author has given emphasis to the following points:
Common mistakes in six sigma project – Mistakes could be due to system or person. The author has warned MBB and BB what not to do.
Tool explanation – Six Sigma projects become cumbersome if we have to calculate each and every parameter manually and prepare charts manually. Tools are the necessity. Minitab and MS Excel can help Six Sigma projects a lot. Rohit has shown how to use Minitab for each step properly.
Cases – Educational material would be of no use if end user (person learning it) doesn’ know where and when to use it. So cases are a must to explain any academic point. Rohit has made sure to cover this point.
Advices for non-Six Sigma background or nonstatistical background reader
Don’t panic by reading name of technical terms, you will get their explanation in cases discussed or you can google them
You don’t need to be an expert to read this book
Ideal book for
MBB / BB / GB / YB
People with statistical or data analysis background
Improvement oriented people