Recommended Books and Websites

Websites

www.iSixSigma.com provides articles on a wealth of Six Sigma subjects as well as a virtual discussion area devoted to Six Sigma topics.
The Ohio State University COE Certification is the high standard that MoreSteam and other industry leaders follow for Green Belts and Black Belts.
The Process Excellence Network portal (commentary, articles, Webcasts)
www.LEAN.ORG is a site operated by noted "Lean Thinking" author James Womack, and offers downloads of Lean presentations.
Lean Blog is a content-rich blog by Mark Graban on Lean and Six Sigma in Healthcare, hospitals, business and the world.
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Skymark provides short tutorials on several process improvement tools
Simulations of the Central Limit Theorem can be found at http://onlinestatbook.com/stat_sim/sampling_dist/index.html
Andrew Gelman's Statistical Modeling blog delivers daily and weekly observations on Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

Six Sigma and Process Excellence (a division of IQPC) offers international Lean Six Sigma events throughout the year, including a large annual event in January: www.sixsigmaiq.com/events.cfm

An excellent statistics handbook is available free online from a partnership of SEMATECH and NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology - U.S. Commerce Department) at: http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/index.htm
Statistics case studies, tutorials, and simulations are available online from Rice University at: http://onlinestatbook.com/rvls.html
Statsoft, the marketer of Statistica®, offers an excellent online statistics handbook at www.statsoft.com/textbook/stathome.html

Murray Adams, Mark Kiemele, Lee Pollock and Tom Quan, Lean Six Sigma: A Tools Guide (Air Academy Press, 2004) ISBN: 1800156075
W. Edwards Deming Out of the Crisis (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Center for Advanced Engineering Study 1982, 1986), ISBN: 0262541157
Joseph M. Juran and A. Blanton Godfrey, Juran's Quality Handbook (McGraw-Hill, 1999), ISBN: 007034003X
Mark Kiemele, Richard Murrow, and Lee Pollock, Knowledge Based Management (Air Academy Press, 2007) ISBN: 1880156083
Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun, Ltd / Factory Magazine, Poka-Yoke: Improving Product Quality by Preventing Defects (Productivity Press, 1988), ISBN: 0-915299-31-3
Lee Pollock and Mark Kiemele, Reversing the Culture of Waste: 50 Best Practices for Achieving Process Excellence (Air Academy Press, 2013), ISBN: 9781880156094
Thomas Pyzdek, The Six Sigma Project Planner : A Step-by-Step Guide to Leading a Six Sigma Project Through DMAIC ( McGraw-Hill 2003), ISBN: 0071411836
Donald J. Wheeler and David S. Chambers, Understanding Statistical Process Control (Statistical Process Controls, Inc. 1986), ISBN: 0945320132

Mark J. Anderson and Patrick J. Whitcomb, DOE Simplified: Practical Tools for Effective Experimentation (Quality Management) (Productivity, Inc. 2000), ISBN: 1-56327-225-3
George E. P. Box, William G. Hunter and J. Stuart Hunter, Statistics for Experimenters: An Introduction to Design, Data Analysis, and Model Building (John Wiley and Sons, Inc. 1978), ISBN: 0-471-09315-7
Mark J. Kiemele, Stephen R. Schmidt, and Ronald J. Berdine, Basic Statistics: Tools for Continuous Improvement , (Air Academy Press 2000), ISBN: 1880156067
Douglas C. Montgomery, Design and Analysis of Experiments (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1984, ISBN: 0-471-86812-4.
Stephen R. Schmidt, Robert G. Launsby, Understanding Industrial Designed Experiments , (Air Academy Press, 1998), ISBN: 1880156032
Genichi Taguchi, Introduction to Quality Engineering: Designing Quality into Products and Processes (Asian Productivity Organization, 1986), ISBN: 92-833-1084-5

Peter M. Senge, The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of the Learning Organization (Currency Doubleday, 1990), ISBN: 0-385-26095-4
Senge, Ross, Smith, Roberts, Kleiner, The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook (Currency Doubleday, 1994), ISBN: 0-385-47256-0