Created by Lean practitioners with real-world, results-proven track records, this book is designed to help struggling managers and leaders, interested in the benefits of Lean but bereft of budgets to hire full-time consultants, start substantial change in their enterprises and begin to reap the benefits of Lean.
At once a how-to manual and a strategic management guide, the book lays out, in simple English, all the steps for implementing Lean, from formulating a strategy and managing organizational change, to establishing a kanban-driven, level-loaded production system.
Presenting strategies that will fit in most existing budgets, Lean for the Cash-Strapped Leader: The Path to Growth and Profitability uses easy-to-read language with flashes of humor to reveal proven methods that will help your organization initiate change and begin reaping the rewards of a Lean operations system in any industry.
The book avoids acronyms, complex Lean terminology, and academic froth to convey the essential instructions, detail, and information you need. Identifying powerful methods for initiating a Lean value stream that require minimal investment, the book is designed to help owners of small businesses and senior managers of larger ones make their enterprises more efficient, more productive, and ultimately more profitable.
Along the way, the book gives detailed attention to the need for the "soft message" that underwrites and supports the actions required for a business to achieve the transformation that Lean can bring. Lean for the Cash-Strapped Leader emphasizes the messaging and the degree of management involvement required to achieve a successful Lean result.
Preface : The "Why" of This Book
Acknowledgments
Authors
Introduction : About This Book
Chapter 1 : Brief Overview of Lean and Elimination of Waste
Chapter 2 : A Different Way of Thinking
Chapter 3 : Rationalizing the Inventory
Chapter 4 : Kanban Signals
Chapter 5 : Deriving Dependent Demand for Kanban
Chapter 6 : Documenting the Current State in a Process Map
Chapter 7 : Creating the Future-State Process Map
Chapter 8 : Understanding Kanban-Heijunka Card-Flow Process
Chapter 9 : Kanbans and Heijunkas
Chapter 10 : Continuous Improvement, the Kaizen Event
Chapter 11 : Beginning the Kaizen and Documenting Reality
Chapter 12 : The Percent-Loading Chart
Chapter 13 : Using Percent-Loading Chart
Chapter 14 : Dependent-Demand Manufacturing Kanbans
Chapter 15 : The Total-Value Flow with Standard Work and Visuals
Chapter 16 : Tying Up Loose Ends in the New Total-Value Flow
Chapter 17 : Competition and Continuous Improvement
Recommended Readings
Index
