Financial Times Guide to Lean, The

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Learn how to make your company more efficient, increase customer value with less work and make better use of your organisation’s resources by implementing a Lean management strategy.

The Financial Times Guide to Lean is a guide to the tools that are used to implement Lean, showing you how to apply Lean practices fully into your organisation or company.

This book offers a comprehensive and objective look at lean strategy and how it can be tailored for different companies.

Part I: Getting started: Lean orientation and diagnostic phase
Chapter 1 Lean management
Chapter 2 Hoshin Kanri strategy deployment
Chapter 3 Value stream mapping
Part II: Lean transformation practices
Chapter 4 Lean methods and tools (part I)
Chapter 5 Lean methods and tools (part II)
Chapter 6 Lean methods and tools (part III)
Chapter 7 Lean methods and tools (part IV)
Chapter 8 Lean methods and tools (part V)
Chapter 9 Lean methods and tools (part VI)
Part III: Leading the Lean transformation
Chapter 10 Developing the Lean culture
Chapter 11 The technical side of sustaining Lean
Chapter 12 The people side of sustaining Lean
Chapter 13 Putting it all together: The Lean Roadmap to Transformation
References and further reading
Glossary
Appendix
Index