Story Of A Lean Journey
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Story Of A Lean Journey
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Author : James K. Lewis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Story Of A Lean Journey written by James K. Lewis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with categories.
Lean In A High Variability Business
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Author : Eduardo Lander
language : en
Publisher: CRC Press
Release Date : 2021-11-30
Lean In A High Variability Business written by Eduardo Lander and has been published by CRC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-30 with Business & Economics categories.
"John Dewey famously pointed out, 'We don't learn from experience. We learn from reflecting on experience.' Here's your chance to learn as the three authors reflect on the (successful) struggle to build a Lean production and management system at Zingerman's Mail Order. Thousands of people visit and benchmark ZMO. This book delivers the backstory in a richly illustrated way." -- Mike Rother, author of the bestselling books Toyota Kata and The Toyota Kata Practice Guide This clever and highly engaging graphic novel details a story about one organization’s Lean journey with inspiration from the Toyota Way. Over the years, common misunderstandings about what Lean is, what the journey is like, and how to advance have proliferated. Often, these misunderstandings come from the way people simplistically talk and think about Lean as if it is some concrete thing that you insert into an organization and step back to watch the results. The authors, however, view the organization as a living system with interacting parts and constant exposure to the environment. It is dynamic, so it’s hard to predict what obstacles you will face next. Just when you think you have it solved, new challenges arise from the market, competitors, government regulations, and every direction you turn to. When you look at your organization in this way, you see Lean through a different lens. The goal is to make your processes and people into a more adaptive system so you can navigate through all the complexity and uncertainty to continually achieve your goals. This is how Toyota views things and they summarize the Toyota Way as continuous improvement and respect for people. Each person becomes a partner in struggling to learn and adapt, and specific tools are used in very different ways throughout the company to accomplish their goals. The story presented here focuses on a small company called Zingerman’s Mail Order (ZMO). Tom Root was one of the founders of this spin-off of the Zingerman’s delicatessen. The deli was founded to bring high-quality artisanal food to Ann Arbor, Michigan. The purpose of this book is not to provide a "recipe for implementation" – the authors want you to get a feeling for the struggle, for the learning process. They explain and demonstrate many Lean tools within the context of the journey and how they were adapted for this particular business. Toyota kata became the centerpiece of developing scientific thinking skills to begin to bring continuous improvement to life.
Andy Me
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Author : Pascal Dennis
language : en
Publisher: CRC Press
Release Date : 2017-11-15
Andy Me written by Pascal Dennis and has been published by CRC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-15 with Business & Economics categories.
Second Edition of a Shingo Prize Winner Based on the author's personal experience with Toyota‘s master teachers and with companies in the midst of great change, Andy and Me: Crisis and Transformation on the Lean Journey, now in its second edition, is a business novel set in a failing New Jersey auto plant focusing on the tribulations of Tom Pappas,
Andy Me And The Hospital
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Author : Pascal Dennis
language : en
Publisher: CRC Press
Release Date : 2016-08-19
Andy Me And The Hospital written by Pascal Dennis and has been published by CRC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-19 with Business & Economics categories.
Based on the author's years of experience working with Toyota’s master teachers and with companies in the midst of great change, this book follows the story established in the Shingo Prize-winning book, Andy & Me: Crisis & Transformation on the Lean Journey. In a cool and readable style, Andy & Me and the Hospital: Further Adventures on the Lean Journey follows Tom Pappas's relationship with Andy Saito, a reclusive retired Toyota guru. Tom and Andy are pulled into a major New York City hospital in crisis. Can they translate and apply Toyota’s powerful methods and thinking to save the hospital from disaster? Using a compelling novel format, the book demonstrates how to apply Lean thinking in a healthcare setting. It illustrates the situations, characters, and plant politics you will most likely face as you progress through your Lean healthcare journey. As the story unfolds, you will discover the way of thinking and behavioral changes required to implement proven Toyota Production System (TPS) methods, tools, and thinking in healthcare. You will learn: What a Lean transformation in a hospital should look like The overall approach you need to take The leadership and behavioral changes required How to improve processes and better develop and engage people How to build and sustain a Lean management system How to translate and apply Deming’s "profound system of knowledge" This book provides clear and simple guidance on what it takes to successfully implement Toyota methods in healthcare settings. It shares helpful insights on how the different elements need to fit together to deliver measurable process improvement results. Just like its bestselling predecessors, this book includes study questions after each chapter to support learning and to facilitate discussion in workshops or classroom settings.
Story Of A Lean Journey
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Author : James K. Lewis
language : en
Publisher: Society of Manufacturing Engineers
Release Date : 2008
Story Of A Lean Journey written by James K. Lewis and has been published by Society of Manufacturing Engineers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Business & Economics categories.
"Readers of "Story of a Lean Journey" will empathize with the plight of Allison Manufacturing Services (AMS), a small manufacturer struggling to survive global competition and specialization to the point where it is trying to be everything to everyone. Its board of directors is disheartened with the downward spiral of profits, continuing loss of market share, and lackluster performance of "flavor of the month" initiatives. Looking for a way to save the company, the board hires Bill Watts, a lean consultant, as its new executive vice president. But the story just begins here. Knowing that a successful lean journey requires a culture shift that must begin at the top, Bill must rally the support of the board members who are, of course, skeptical as to what lean will bring to the bottom line. But the change in thinking required to make lean implementation successful is only the beginning. "Story of a Lean Journey" will take you through the first three-years of lean application at AMS. But read the story for yourself, it doesn't end there either."--Publisher.
The Lean Manager
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Author : Freddy Ballé
language : en
Publisher: Lean Enterprise Institute
Release Date : 2011-09-15
The Lean Manager written by Freddy Ballé and has been published by Lean Enterprise Institute this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-15 with Business & Economics categories.
In this groundbreaking sequel to The Gold Mine, authors Michael and Freddy Ballé present a compelling story that teaches readers the most important lean lesson of all: how to transform themselves and their workers through the discipline of learning the lean system. The Lean Manager: A Novel of Lean Transformation reveals how individuals can go beyond the short-term gains from tools, and realize a deeper, sustainable path of improvement. Full of human moments that capture the excitement and drama of lean implementation, as well as clear explanations of how tools and systems go hand-in-hand, this book will teach and inspire every person working to make lean a reality in their organization today. This book will help you learn both the how of doing lean, as well as the why behind the tools, enabling you to become lean. Lean is the most important business model for competitive success today. Yet companies still struggle to sustain enduring and deep-rooted business success from their lean implementation efforts. The most important problem for these companies is becoming lean: how can they advance beyond realizing isolated gains from deploying lean tools, to fundamentally changing how they operate, think, and learn? In other words, how can companies learn to go beyond lean turnaround to achieve lean transformation? The Lean Manager: A Novel of Lean Transformation, by lean experts Michael and Freddy Ballé, addresses this critical problem. As we move from what Jim Womack, author, lean management authority, and LEI founder, calls “the era of lean tools to the era of lean management,” The Lean Manager gives companies a definitive guide for sustaining their ability to learn and improve operations and financial performance, while continually developing people. “The only way to become and stay lean is to produce lean managers,” says Womack. “Every isolated effort will recede—or fail—unless companies learn to use the lean process as a way of developing individual problem-solvers with the ownership, initiative, and know-how to solve problems, learn, and ultimately coach new individuals in this discipline. That’s why this book matters so much.” The Lean Manager, the sequel to the Ballé’s international bestselling business novel The Gold Mine, tells the compelling story of plant manager Andrew Ward as he goes through the challenging but rewarding journey to becoming a lean manager. Under the guidance of Phil Jenkinson (whose own lean journey was at the core of The Gold Mine), Ward learns to use a deep understanding of lean tools, as well as a technical know-how of his plant’s operations, to foster a lean attitude that sustains continuous improvement. Where The Gold Mine shows you how to introduce a complete lean system, The Lean Manager demonstrates how to sustain it. Ward moves beyond fluency with tools to changing his behavior as a manager and leader. He shifts from giving orders and answers to asking the right questions so people identify and address problems. He learns how to use tools to unleash the creativity and motivation of people, so they learn how to solve problems as well as coach and teach others to solve problems. Ward learns how to create lean managers. “I am excited and have hopes that this book will enlighten readers about what it really means to live a business transformation that puts customers first and does this through developing people,” said Jeffrey Liker, author of The Toyota Way and professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan. “People who do the work have to improve the work. There are tools, but they are not tools for ‘improving the process.’ They are tools for making problems visible and for helping people think about how to solve those problems.”
A Lean Journey
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Author : Mark Roberts
language : en
Publisher: University of Western Australia Press
Release Date : 2014
A Lean Journey written by Mark Roberts and has been published by University of Western Australia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Industrial efficiency categories.
The Journey To Excellence Successfully Applying Lean Thinking In Your Business
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Author : Jim Lewis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-01-18
The Journey To Excellence Successfully Applying Lean Thinking In Your Business written by Jim Lewis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-18 with categories.
Readers of The Journey to Excellence will empathize with the plight of Allison Manufacturing Services (AMS), a small manufacturer struggling to survive global competition and specialization to the point where it is trying to be everything to everyone. Its board of directors is disheartened with the downward spiral of profits, continuing loss of market share, and lackluster performance of flavor of the month initiatives. Looking for a way to save the company, the board hires Bill Watts, a Lean Business Philosophy consultant, as its new executive vice president. But the story just begins here. Knowing that a successful Lean journey requires a culture shift that must begin at the top, Bill must rally the support of the board members who are, of course, skeptical as to what Lean will bring to the bottom line. But the change in culture required to make the Lean implementation successful is only the beginning. The Journey to Excellence will take you through the first three-years of Lean application at AMS. But read the story for yourself, it doesn't end there either.
Andy Me Second Edition
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Author : Pascal Dennis
language : en
Publisher: Productivity Press
Release Date : 2010-12-02
Andy Me Second Edition written by Pascal Dennis and has been published by Productivity Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-02 with Business & Economics categories.
Second Edition of a Shingo Prize Winner Based on the author's personal experience with Toyota’s master teachers and with companies in the midst of great change, Andy & Me: Crisis & Transformation on the Lean Journey, now in its second edition, is a business novel set in a failing New Jersey auto plant focusing on the tribulations of Tom Pappas, the plant manager. The situations, characters, and plant politics will ring true with many readers. In a cool, readable style, this highly popular work follows Tom's relationship with Andy Saito, a reclusive retired Toyota guru whom Tom persuades to help save his plant through the teaching of the legendary Toyota Production System (TPS). On this journey, the reader learns that TPS is more than just a collection of tools; it entails a new way of thinking and behaving. Though Tom finds success — both in his plant and in his personal life — he learns from Andy that successful improvement is endless and eternal.This edition includes study questions after each chapter to support your learning and help you tell some of your own stories. Pascal Dennis discusses the 2nd edition of his Shingo Prize-winning book Andy & Me.
Mr Lean Buys And Transforms A Manufacturing Company
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Author : Greg Lane
language : en
Publisher: CRC Press
Release Date : 2009-12-17
Mr Lean Buys And Transforms A Manufacturing Company written by Greg Lane and has been published by CRC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-12-17 with Business & Economics categories.
This is the true story of how, armed with only Lean improvement methodologies, a specially trained Toyota Lean expert purchased a business he knew nothing about, applied Lean techniques, and succeeded in doubling sales and increasing profitability, before he finally sold the thriving business. With humility and humor, the author recounts his succes