Creating A Lean Culture: Tools To Sustain Lean Conversions

Lean production has been proven unbeatable in organizing production operations, yet the majority of attempts to implement lean end in disappointing results. The critical factor so often overlooked is that lean implementation requires day-to-day, hour-by-hour management practices and skills that leaders in conventional batch-and-queue environments are neither familiar nor comfortable with.

Creating a Lean Culture helps lean leaders succeed in their personal batch-to-lean transformation. It provides a practical guide to implementing the missing links needed to sustain a lean implementation. Mann provides critical guidance on developing and using the key elements of a lean management system, including: leader standard work, visual controls, daily accountability processes, maintaining a process focus, managing key HR issues, and much more. In addition, a questionnaire is included to help assess current management practices and monitor progress.

Highlights: Distinguishes the much-discussed, abstract concept of "lean culture" from the concrete, implementable practices of lean management. Describes and illustrates 4 key principles of lean management: leader standard work; visual controls; daily accountability process, and discipline. Shows how visual controls bring process focus to life, tie in lean's requirement for highly disciplined execution, and make leaders' new jobs far easier to explain, model and evaluate. Moves beyond models and theories of lean management to show how to implement the daily practices that are the key to implementing and sustaining a lean transformation. Lots of case examples, figures and photographs. more

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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jul-15-2009; Management is culture: change your management and dont ever change back; The book is worth the money.What I learned here, I see nowhere else.The examples are clear; the message is clear.I am glad I bought it.; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jul-12-2009; Lean culture; This is the third copy of this book I have bought. I not only recommend this book, I buy it with my own money and give to colleagues. It's that good.; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Dec-16-2008; Creating a Lean Culture; If you are a manager, spend your next holidays reading this book. The value it brings resides in bridging between the tools to apply to implement Lean in your company, and how to actually manage the change and the new, improved...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Apr-21-2008; Right Up There With 'Lean Thinking'; Just one heck of a resource. The only thing that keeps me from kicking myself for not buying it 10 years ago is that it has only been in print for three years. HIGHLY recommended to those who are responsible for leading an organization...; read full review | report as inappropriate

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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jul-15-2009; Management is culture: change your management and dont ever change back; The book is worth the money.What I learned here, I see nowhere else.The examples are clear; the message is clear.I am glad I bought it.; read full review | report as inappropriate