A clear and methodical guide to implementing `lean' management, describing each step in a distinctive method-based `European' process that contrasts with tools-based Japanese systems. Case studies from a range of industries provide invaluable real-world models.
A clear and methodical guide to implementing `lean' management, describing each step in a distinctive method-based `European' process that contrasts w...
The book addresses a modern reorientation of Lean, abandoning the classical waste dogma that brings direct efficiency gains and substituting by a way to achieving indirect efficiency in a continuous and sustainable manner. Waste is the output of a process that cannot be of further use, while value is a matter of valuation, a process whose output we conceive to be of further use. Value and waste are not antithetical, they are just not comparable issues. We achieve added value to the modern Lean Enterprise through synergies that bring sustainable economic benefits to the company. Such synergies...
The book addresses a modern reorientation of Lean, abandoning the classical waste dogma that brings direct efficiency gains and substituting by a way ...