• Velocity

  • Combining Lean, Six Sigma and the Theory of Constraints to Achieve Breakthrough Performance
  • By: Dee Jacob, Suzan Bergland, Jeff Cox
  • Narrated by: Linda Weber
  • Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
  • 4.1 out of 5 stars (536 ratings)

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By: Dee Jacob, Suzan Bergland, Jeff Cox
Narrated by: Linda Weber
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Publisher's summary

Millions of readers and listeners remember The Goal, the landmark business novel that sets forth the essential principles of Eliyahu Goldratt's innovative methods of production. Now, from the AGI-Goldratt Institute and Jeff Cox, the same creative writer who co-authored The Goal, comes Velocity the book that reveals how to achieve outstanding bottom-line results by integrating the world's three most powerful continuous improvement disciplines: Lean, Six Sigma, and Goldratt's Theory of Constraints.

Dee Jacob and Suzan Bergland, two principals of AGI, show you how to apply their insights and methods to your organization in order to shorten lead times, slash inventories, reduce production variability, and increase sales. Writer Jeff Cox returns with the vivid, realistic style that made The Goal so entertaining yet so edifying. Thrust into the presidency of the subsidiary company where she has managed sales and marketing, Amy Cieolara is mandated by her corporate superiors to implement Lean Six Sigma (LSS) in order to appease a key customer. But as time goes on, and corporate pressure mounts, Amy arrives at the series of steps that form the core of the Velocity Approach.

Velocity offers keen insight into the human and organizational factors that so often derail growth while teaching you proven, practical techniques for restarting and revving up the internal engines of your company to reach new levels of success.

©2010 The Avraham Y. Goldratt Institute and Jeff Cox (P)2010 Simon & Schuster

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Waste of 5 hours

Poorly written drama with no educational value whatsoever. If you are looking to learn about Six Sigma, read another book.

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Too much novel Not enough nuts and bolts..........

I am afraid the authors fancy themselves as some kind of novelists rather than business writers. Ken Blanchard is a master at this approach; this bunch....not so much. I enjoyed the story, but really did not learn anything about LSS and very little about the TOC of constraints; certainly nothing that was applicable to my field. Well I guess I did learn that LSS is short for Lean Six Sigma and TOC is the abbreviation for the Theory of Constraints.

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Atrocious Fanfic Self-congratulatory Nonsense

Book: Amateurishly written, reads worse than some fan fiction. The creative writing is atrocious with uneven and bizarre descriptions of people and things, unrealistic dialog and many, many tropes. The business practices they attempt to convey are overly simplified and shamelessly reference the authors' previous work as being the solution to the problems faced in this book. A near complete waste of 6 hours... but at least two "nearly sex" scenes were awkwardly crammed in. Despite haing a female protagonist, it's the boyfriend who actually solves everyone's problems, using tools an undergraduate would learn that nonetheless astound a room full of executives.

The narrator should be legally required to never, ever, attempt a southern or English accent again. she should also learn that the word "resin" is not pronounced RAH-zin...mispronounced at least a dozen times.

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Cute story

Like others have said, nice story, short on specifics. You find yourself routing for Amy and her team and it gives some ideas of integrating LSS and TOC, but no real strategy.

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Learning book

This is a good book to learn high-level topics on lean six sigma. It was a recommendation read from work and hit the topics I needed to refresh on.

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Audio books should be required to supply images

I listen to educational books on my commute to work. Without the images to support the audio lessons, a lot is lost.

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learn these basic concepts elsewhere

The story made the book easier to finish quickly, but the time would probably be better spent with 10 minutes on Wikipedia for TOC, six sigma, and lean. In 6 hours, more depth and substance is expected.

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toc and lss

ive always looked from a blank sheet trying to implement toc or lss. never from the view of a toc organisation going lss. after this book, i became much more aware of how we are currently living this reality. we have managers strong in lss, the passionate people about toc, and everyone achieving in their own areas and trying to get the other camps to be on their side. the thing is, nobody tells you its lean, or toc!

good read for connecting the dots! love the definition of velocity!

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Great stuff!

Interesting novel! The material is great & put forth in a entertaining way! More Please

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Okish

ok, but by far not as good The Goal. Story is cut short and not fascinating enough.

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