Leading and Managing Lean - Softcover

Gene Fliedner (author)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1631570536 ISBN 13: 9781631570537

Publisher: Business Expert Press, 2015

Synopsis

Lean is a comprehensive, integral system consisting of four interdependent elements: leadership, culture, team, and practices and tools. This book examines these elements following a systematic, hierarchical orientation and explains their relevance for guiding lean initiatives. It begins with the identification and establishment of strategic goals, followed with strategy development, and lastly tactical choices. This model framework is cognizant of a firm's relative internal strengths and weaknesses as well as external opportunities and threats. Each of the four integral lean system elements is explored in depth. The model framework offers a path to develop lean leaders with practical, actionable ideas suited for applications in all industries. Throughout the book, the evolution of the current body of lean knowledge is examined as well as lean's complementary initiative, total quality management. A perspective which views lean as a customer-driven philosophy for organization-wide continuous improvement and waste elimination is maintained throughout the book. This second edition builds upon the first edition with additional lean content focused on technology, supply chain management, flexibility and agility constructs, and accounting.

About this title

About the Author:

Dr. Gene Fliedner is an associate professor at Oakland University where he has been a member of the Decision and Information Sciences Department within the School of Business Administration since 1995. He received his DBA and MBA in operations management from Indiana University and his BBA from Texas Christian University. Dr. Fliedner has published in numerous premier business journals and is a member of several professional societies. In 2010, he received the distinguished Fellows lifetime service award from the Midwest Decision Sciences Institute. In 2011 and again in 2014, he received a three-year Research Fellowship from the Pawley Lean Institute at Oakland University. In 2011, in collaboration with Business Expert Press, he published his book titled Leading and Managing the Lean Management Process which received the prestigious Shingo Research and Professional Publication Award.

About this edition

• Publisher: Business Expert Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1631570536
• ISBN 13: 9781631570537
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 245