Implementing Twi: Creating and Managing a Skills-Based Culture

ISBN-13: 9781439825969 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 500 str.

Patrick Graupp;Robert J. Wrona;¬Abar

Opis

Featuring strategies employed in Lean, this volume describes the experiences of organizations using TWI more than 60 years after the Training Within Industry program turned the U.S. into the industrial giant that won World War II. Based on their experience implementing TWI in organizations as diverse as Virginia Mason Medical Center and Donnelly Manufacturing, Shingo Prize Winners Patrick Graupp and Robert Wrona prove why many consider them the most successful TWI trainers in the world. Their hands-on manual provides the tools and templates that can turn your company's employees into a skilled and invested workforce capable of realizing unprecedented profits. Praise for: If you want to get from interesting displays to true standardized work, read this book.
-- Jeffrey K. Liker, author, The Toyota Way ... uses cases to explain how to create no-nonsense culture change by teaching people how to do work differently, and how to relate to each other differently in order to work more effectively.
-- Robert "Doc" Hall, Editor-in Chief, Target Magazine Graupp and Wrona bring many examples of companies that improved] competitiveness by improving their capacity to fully engage their workforce ... .
--Steven Spear, Sr. Lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Management

O autorze

Patrick Graupp learned TWI at the Corporate Training Center for Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd. in Japan and has been a trainer of all three TWI programs for over 25 years. Robert J. Wrona joined the Central New York Technology Development Organization as a Lean Project Manager in 2001 and has over 20 years experience as a TQM and Lean consultant.