Use lean management to improve efficiency, increase customer value, cut waste, and make the most of limited resources!
* In today's economic climate, lean techniques are more valuable than ever: this book will help you understand and apply them.
* Covers all of today's most valuable lean tools, showing how to choose amongst them and integrate them into your organization.
* Includes expert coverage of lean culture, the technical and 'people' side of lean, and building a 'Lean Roadmap to Transformation.
FT Guide to Lean will show you how to use lean management techniques to drive greater efficiency and increase customer value at the same time. Leading lean consultant Andy Brophy introduces each leading tool for implementing lean, helping decision-makers and practitioners decide which tools offer the greatest opportunities, and then successfully integrate them throughout their organizations. Using practical examples drawn from his extensive in-thetrenches experience, Brophy fully explains the principles of lean and lean management, and guides readers through crafting lean strategies and roadmaps that reflect their unique environment and challenges. Topics covered include:
* Lean concepts, the 'five principles of lean,' Hoshin Kanri, and value stream mapping.
* 5S Workplace Organization, A3 problem solving, Kaizen, Idea Management Systems, Quick Changeover, Kanban, and Flow Practices.
* Developing lean culture: accountability processes, expectation setting, recognition, coaching, delegation, constructive feedback, and escalation.
* Successfully managing both the technical and human issues associated with sustaining lean, from tracking and metrics to engagement and risk taking
