5S: Foundation for Personal and Business Excellenece
Publisher: Wisdom Village Publications
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Delhi, India
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 106
ISBN-13: 9789380710235
Description: Research shows that if you work 8 hours a day only 1 hour of work has been of value - 7 hours have been wasted. This means there is a huge opportunity to improve. A simple and effective way to get started is by implementing 5-S. It is simple yet powerful and can be practised by everyone regardless of occupation and position.
                                                                                                        
Be it the place for work or fun; public or private; we need to practise 5-S to make this world a better place to live. This book presents 5-S principles in a simple language and easy to use methodology and should help in spreading its awareness and practice.
 - S K Kakkar, CII

This book is  specially applicable in  Indian context, as it contains many practical examples of 5-S application for healthcare, IT, hotels and even personal workplace to illustrate its  simplicity,  wide ranging applicability and  transformative power with clarity and depth. I would strongly recommend this as one of the study books  to candidates planning to take the American Society for Quality(ASQ) certification exams related to Lean bronze category. - Amit Chatterjee, Managing Director, ASQ India

5-S as a tool is an excellent concept for any business to excel and succeed.
This book will do a lot of good to the industries when they apply these principles diligently.
- V Krishnamurthy, Chairman, National Manufacturing Competitiveness Council

US based quality expert, Rai Chowdhary,  with over 25 years of experience with organizations such as NASA, Abbott Labs, Frito-Lay, Larsen and Toubro, is an award winning speaker, entrepreneur, business coach, has authored  life-changing book Do-MAgIC - 7 Steps to Winning and serves on several international Technical committees. You may reach him at  rai_chowdhary@yahoo.com.

A former Professor with ISI, Kailash Anand has been on a mission, spreading quality awareness and analytical techniques across India and abroad, training more than 10,000 executives, and helping turn many loss making companies into profit making ventures, publishing several papers in international journals  and authoring  path breaking book High Quality at an Economical Cost. You may reach him at knaisi@hotmail.com.
Table of contents: title: Contents; title: 1.	Section 1: What is 5-S  								  1; title: 2.	Section 2: Why 5-S	4; title: 3.; title: Section 3: Where do you stand in 5-S; title: 6; title: 4.; title: Section 4: First S – Seiri or Sort; title: 9; title: 5.; title: Section 5: Second S – Seiton or Store; title: 13; title: 6.; title: Section 6: Third S – Seiso or Shine; title: 16; title: 7.; title: Section 7: Fourth S – Seiketsu or Standardize; title: 19; title: 8.; title: Section 8: Fifth S – Shitsuke or Sustain; title: 23; title: 9.; title: Section 9: Roadmap for Implementation; title: 25; title: 10.; title: Section 10: Role of 5-S in Lean and Quality; title: 29; title: 11.; title: Section 11: Major Pitfalls in 5-S; title: 32; title: Case Studies; title: 12.	Section 12: Medicine Cabinet in Hospital	33; title: 13.; title: Section 13: Computer Desktop in Office; title: 35; title: 14.; title: Section 14: Space Management in Motel Chain; title: 37; title: 15.; title: Section 15: 5-S for Families; title: 44; title: 16.; title: Annexure; title: 48