Financial Times Guide to Lean, The: How to streamline your organisation, engage employees and create a competitive edge

Description

Learn how to make your company more efficient, increase customer value with less work and make better use of your organisation’s resources by implementing a Lean management strategy.

The Financial Times Guide to Lean is a guide to the tools that are used to implement Lean, showing you how to apply Lean practices fully into your organisation or company.

This book offers a comprehensive and objective look at lean strategy and how it can be tailored for different companies.

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Table of Contents

• Part I: Getting started: Lean orientation and diagnostic phase
• Chapter 1 Lean management
• Chapter 2 Hoshin Kanri strategy deployment
• Chapter 3 Value stream mapping
• Part II: Lean transformation practices
• Chapter 4 Lean methods and tools (part I)
• Chapter 5 Lean methods and tools (part II)
• Chapter 6 Lean methods and tools (part III)
• Chapter 7 Lean methods and tools (part IV)
• Chapter 8 Lean methods and tools (part V)
• Chapter 9 Lean methods and tools (part VI)
• Part III: Leading the Lean transformation
• Chapter 10 Developing the Lean culture
• Chapter 11 The technical side of sustaining Lean
• Chapter 12 The people side of sustaining Lean
• Chapter 13 Putting it all together: The Lean Roadmap to Transformation
• References and further reading
• Glossary
• Appendix
• Index

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