Value Engineering Synergies with Lean Six Sigma

Preface

It’s difficult to identify the exact point in time when the idea for this book actually began to form. That’s primarily because everything was subliminal—there was no conscious plan to move in that direction.

Using imperfect hindsight, the earliest underlying driving factor for writing this book occurred around 2003 as a result of observing the experiences of Value Engineering (VE) practitioners trying to combine its use with Lean and Six Sigma. The unambiguous impression from these observations was that business improvement initiatives compete with one another. Organizations are often built around one approach and they are not always tolerant of other approaches. The principal reasons for this are

• the initiative du jour usually has ...