Leading and Managing Lean - Softcover

Gene Fliedner (author)

 
9781631570537: Leading and Managing Lean
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.

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About the Author

Gene Fliedner, Professor, Oakland University, USA.

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