Lean Thinking : Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation, Revised and Updated

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Lean Thinking : Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation, Revised and Updated
by James P. Womack, Daniel T. Jones, James Womack, Daniel Jones
from Free Press

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• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Becoming Lean and Mean!
  The only way to be competitive in the world marketplace is to be much more efficient. In other words "lean and mean." Efficient at engineering, efficient at manufacturing and efficient at meeting/exceeding customer expectations are all keys to becoming more competitive.
  This book and their Machine that Changed the World are good resources for manufacturing facilities more lean. And...lean thinking leads to more lean thinking.
  Using the Toyota system as a guide, Womack and Jones address how... more info

• Very readable look at "Lean Thinking"
  Lean is a specific management technique to make an organization more efficient (and a private sector company more profitable). This book is a well written introduction to the subject. The authors, James Womack and Daniel Jones, provide lots of examples to illustrate their basic points. Thus, this is a very useful introduction to the subject, for those of us who are not experts on this matter.
  To start at the beginning. . . . The enemy is "Muda," a Japanese word that means "waste," in all of its... more info

• Eye-opening!
  The book was truly eye-opening for me! Having spent more than enough time with management consultants and the "programs of the week," misguided Six Sigma projects, etc., I am very cautious about "new" programs. The simple, clear, transformational philosophy of the book was amazing to me. While the book does not outline the steps to take for making a Lean transformation, it should be required reading, before any venture into Lean management. Without an understanding of the philosophy behind Lean, many people... more info

• Timeless Principles
  Lean Thinking illustrates principles from Eliyhu Goldratt's "The Goal", using specific examples of organizations that have used a common sense approach to eliminating waste in obtaining a market advantage. The book advocates using internal talent to re-examine processes and discourages benchmarking. This is a bit ironic as the book is full of benchmark examples. The company I work for is currently implementing lean principles with a good degree of success. The book has been a great resource for our... more info

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