Lean for the long term : sustainment is a myth, transformation is reality /: sustainment is a myth, transformation is reality. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: William H. Baker, Jr., Kenneth D. Rolfes.
• Authors: Jr, Baker, William H; Rolfes, Kenneth D
• Contents: Total Business Thinking Required; Leaders at Every Level; The Language Is Important; Learning the Language; Aligning Lean Speak with the Business Speak; Bilingual Language of Business; Your Company?; ; How Lean Fails; TPS outside of Toyota; CEO Transition and Change; Focus on the Business Model; So What Is a Lean Management System?; Your Company?; ; Top 10 Contributors to Failure; Top 10 Failure Modes Discussion; Takeaways; Endnotes; ; Achieving Alignment; How Lean Practitioners and Business Executives Can Communicate; Lean Practitioner Communication Guidelines; Upper Management Communication Guidelines; Common Ground; Top Management’s Job; Setting Long-Term Goals; Policy Deployment Using Catchball Communications; Lean Management System; Takeaways; ; What the Board Should Know about Lean ; Purpose, Authority, and Responsibility of the Board of Directors; So What Do We Want the Board to Do?; Organizational Alignment; Does the Board Set the Company Culture?; Extinction Is an Option; What a Lean Strategy Does; Amalgam Business Context; Takeaway Questions to Consider for Your Company; NCR Timeline; ; Using Your Lean Culture to Achieve the CEO’s Goals ; Worker Engagement; Lean Culture and the CEO’s Strategy; Ford Motor Company; Hillenbrand, Inc; Autoliv; Toyota; Lean Measures Turn into Financial Measures; Management Questions about Continuous Improvement Projects; William Baker’s Experience; Helping Upper Management Achieve Lean for the Long Term; Company Strategy; Mentoring People; Customers; Growth; Financial; Suppliers; Culture; Endnotes; ; As a Lean Practitioner, What Your CEO Wants You to Know; Introduction; Identify the Customer Segments and Their Characteristics; Customer Value and Demand; Scope the Required Infrastructure; Describe the Future State and Actions to Get There; Results; Takeaways; ; Lean across the Organization ; Bridge to Breakthrough Opportunities; Transforming Marketing and Sales; Streamline Operations and Reduce Overall Footprint; Strengthen Product Development Capabilities; Takeaways; ; Building Your Plan ; Roadmap to Lean Success; Key Drivers of Lean for the Long Term; 1. Leadership; Leadership Team; Changing Leadership Trends; 2. Focus on the Business Model; 3. Lean across the Organization; The Lean Journey—Understanding It’s a Long Journey and There Will Be Culture Change for All; Phase 1: Use of Continuous Improvement Tools and Systems; Phase 2: Lean Management System; Phase 2: Expand Lean and Involve the Entire Organization; Phase 3: Involving the Board of Directors; 4. Consistent Communications; 5. Lean Infrastructure; Lean Staffing Organization; Insertion of the Lean Practitioner into the Business; 6. Development of Culture; Understanding It’s a Long Journey and There Will Be Culture Change for All; Organizational Learning in the Culture; Time Allocation—Your Most Precious Resource; 7. Lean Strategy and Interfacing with the Board of Directors; Framing Your Plan; Flexibility Is Required; Checklists; Checklist for Building Your Plan: Lean Practitioner; Checklist for Building Your Plan: Upper Management; Checklist for Building Your Plan: Board of Directors; ; Index;
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: New York : Productivity Press
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 658.406; Organizational effectiveness; Organizational change; Total quality management; Cost control; Industrial management
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781482257175
• Related ISBNs: 9781482257168
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; item not viewed.
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