1st Edition
Building a Sustainable Lean Culture An Implementation Guide
This book is an implementation guide for creating a Lean Culture from the ground up while gaining buy-in from key stakeholders and being able to sustain the results. Everyone talks about implementing a Lean Culture, but only provides Lean Tools for the implementation. This book discusses implementing the entire system from three main aspects. It covers the people (structural and cultural), the operation system, and the tools. Also included is a full set of case studies to show real-life implementations as well.
FEATURES:
- Discusses Leader Standard work for all employees
- Covers the escalation process for tiers and daily accountability
- Shows how to deal with a change of SOP's and standardization within an organization
- Presents exercises for Lean Tools Implementation
- Offers real-life case studies of implementing a Lean Culture while sustaining it
Building a Sustainable Lean Culture: An Implementation Guide discusses Lean Leadership from a managerial standpoint and ensures the Lean journey succeeds through accountability, standardized work, and technological advances utilizing Lean Systems.
Useful in manufacturing, services, IT, and healthcare, this book includes the implementation of empowering employees to want to build a Lean Culture.
Preface
Acknowledgement
Authors
Chapter 1 Introduction to Lean and the Importance of Cultural Change
Chapter 2 Management Support
Chapter 3 Hoshin Kanri
Chapter 4 The Tools
Chapter 5 Building a Sustainable Lean culture Case Study: Process Improvementr
Chapter 6 Business Process Management Cast Study
Chapter 7 Employing Hoshin Kanri to Drive Lean Implementation and Culture Change
Chapter 8 Continuous Improvement Toolkit
Biography
Tina Agustiady, Elizabeth A. Cudney
