The remedy : bringing lean thinking out of the factory to transform the entire organization / Pascal Dennis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dennis, Pascal, 1957-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Organizational effectiveness.

Total quality management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (271 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, c2010.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Winner of the Shingo Prize for Excellence in Quality Improvement -From the Shingo judges: This work has an extremely widespread application as the tools, techniques, and methods described are at a level that achieves the goals of Lean and operational excellence without tying them down to a specific industry or work stream. The book provides practical knowledge for lean champions, managers, and executives driving toward operational excellence enterprise-wide. The story format, and the presentation of this material was excellent, and the avoidance of lean and operational excellence

Contents:

The Remedy: Bringing Lean Thinking Out of the Factory To Transform the Entire Organization; Contents; Acknowledgments; About the Author; Preface; Chapter 1: Motor City Sadness; Chapter 2: Lotus Land; Chapter 3: What Have I Learned?; Chapter 4: How Will We Change Their Thinking?; Chapter 5: Focus and Alignment-When You're a Jet, You're a Jet; Chapter 6: Cluing into Chloe; Chapter 7: A Trip to Boston to Dispel the Fog; Chapter 8: Marketing-Leaning Out the Mad Men; Chapter 9: Design and Engineering-Making Knowledge Flow; Chapter 10: Nick Papas Falls into the Abyss

Chapter 11: My Beautiful Mind-Leaning Out Our Supply ChainChapter 12: Dealers, Spielers, and Concealers; Chapter 13: Scylla and Charybdis; Chapter 14: Be My Phenomena; Glossary; References

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-252).

Includes index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

9786612653742

9780470643006

0470643005

9781282653740

1282653741

9780470642986

047064298X

OCLC:

648711473