Make Your Business a Lean Business : How to Create Enduring Market Leadership

Make Your Business a Lean Business is a written by business leaders for business leaders as a how-to guide to building enduring market leadership. Written by authors with more than 60 years’ experience applying Lean to operations and businesses, this book will allow readers to understand Lean principles and apply practices to transform their business. It also

• Shows readers how to transform their business to a Lean business using Lean philosophy, values, practice, and tools
• Is a comprehensive Lean Enterprise Operational Management System implementation guide that defines the Lean Enterprise Business Model
• Uses personal author experiences throughout the book to illuminate and reinforce concepts and practices
• Provides insights and a roadmap so executives can take immediate action to start building a Lean business

Readers will be able follow a logical path aligning their business from strategy to detailed activity, thereby engaging their entire organization in becoming more competitive. It is the only true enterprise book about applying Lean to the entire business, and it provides business leaders with the understanding, approach, and tools to plan, align, and transform their business starting with their core business value proposition, business planning, disciplined goal and resource alignment, and implementation management.

• Shows readers how to transform their business to a Lean business using Lean philosophy, values, practice and tools
• Uses personal author experiences throughout the book to illuminate and reinforce concepts and practices
• Provides insights and a roadmap so executives can take immediate action to start building a Lean business
• Explains Lean's role for marketing, product development, sales and supply chain leadership and the importance of achieving significant sustainable improvement
• Gives concepts and tools to identify customers as key drivers of value creation and alignment of Lean's operational model

Introduction

Chapter 1 : The Lean Enterprise Operational Management System Overview
Chapter 2 : Why Lean Enterprise  
Chapter 3 : Business Strategy Driven Lean Enterprise  
Chapter 4 : Engaging Leadership and Preparing the Culture Change Plan
Chapter 5 : Lean Enterprise Transformation Preparation and Launch
Chapter 6 : Lean Enterprise Operational Management System Factory Operations Implementation  
Chapter 7 : Applying the LEOMS to Enterprise Supply Chains  
Chapter 8 : The LEOMS Application to Transactional Processes

Appendix
Index