Powering the Lean Enterprise

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How to Streamline Operations, Improve Quality, and Gain Customer Loyalty

By Bill Artzberger

ISBN 9781032830339
220 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations.
Hardback
Published November 1, 2024 
Productivity Press - CRC Press

Description:

The goal of Lean is to identify and eliminate nonessential and non-value-adding steps in business processes to streamline operations, improve quality, and gain customer loyalty. Implementation of Lean technologies for many prestigious Fortune 500 companies as well as smaller companies has netted larger profit margins, higher-quality products and services, improved employee engagement, increased customer satisfaction, and lower operating costs. The return on investment regarding Lean initiatives has been stellar. This book introduces basic Lean rules and principles in a variety of simulated case studies drawn from the author’s professional experiences as a Lean coach, trainer, and manager. In each instance, the author presents a different scenario for implementing Lean technologies.

In this book, you will learn about:

– Lean thinking

– Lean mindset

– The 4 Lean rules and 5 Lean principles

– The Lean transformation roadmap

– Lean leadership

– Five common Lean pitfalls and how to avoid them

– Kaizen workshops

– Daily improvements and Kata

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Acknowledgments
About the Author
1. What Is Lean?
2. Lean Thinking
3. Lean Mindset
4. Lean Culture
5. The 4 Lean Rules and 5 Lean Principles
6. Choosing Lean
7. Lean Transformation Roadmap
8. Lean Leadership
9. Five Common Lean Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them
10. Kaizen Workshop
11. Kata
12. Change Is Hard
13. The Human Behavior Model: A Historical Perspective
Summary
Index

Keywords:
Lean methodology, process improvement, business efficiency, Lean principles, customer loyalty, Kaizen workshops, Lean leadership, operational excellence, continuous improvement, change management.

Target Audience:
Business professionals, Lean practitioners, organizational leaders, operations managers, management consultants, entrepreneurs, corporate trainers, quality managers, business students, employees in process-driven industries.

Genre:
Business, operations management, process improvement, Lean methodologies, management, leadership development, organizational change.

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