Financial Times Guide to Lean, The: How To Streamline Your Organisation, Engage Employees and Create A Competitive Edge, 1st edition

Published by FT Publishing International (February 14, 2013) © 2014

  • Andy Brophy
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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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