Book on Lean implementation and culture available from Improvement Tools.com
The book, ‘Creating a Lean Culture’, available from Improvement Tools.com, has won the 2006 SHINGO prize for excellence in Manufacturing Research.
This book 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. David Mann, author of Creating a Lean Culture, 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
In addition, a questionnaire is included in the book to help assess current management practices and monitor progress.
The highlights of the book include:
Distinguishing the abstract concept of Lean culture from the concrete, implementable practices of Lean management
Description and illustration of four key principles of Lean management, which inlcude:
- Leader standard work
- Visual controls
- Daily accountability process
- Discipline
The book shows how visual controls bring process focus to life, tie in Lean's requirement for highly disciplined execution and make leaders' jobs easier to explain, model and evaluate
The book 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. Case examples, figures and photographs are inlcuded in the book.
26-Sep-2008