Leading and Managing the Lean Management Process

What is Lean? Can it help with manufacturing or production? Do you need to
learn about Lean Management? If you want to consider preserving value with
less work, then this book should be your first step.
Lean must be viewed as a comprehensive, integral system consisting of
four interdependent elements: leadership, culture, team, and practices and
tools. This book examines these four elements utilizing a systematic, hierarchical
orientation and explains their relevance for guiding internal Lean initiatives.
It serves as a core Lean reference book, and offers a strategic framework
beginning with the identification and establishment of goals, followed
by strategy development, and lastly tactical choices.
Throughout the book, the historical evolution of the current body of Lean
knowledge is examined as well as Lean’s complementary initiative, Total
Quality Management. A perspective that views Lean as a customer-driven
philosophy for organization-wide continuous or ongoing improvement and
waste elimination is maintained throughout the book.
The book concludes with an exploration of Sustainability, the current Lean
frontier as well as a discussion of Lean’s future, the exchange of accurate and
timely information among supply chain trading partners. This offering is different
from other Lean books in three fundamental ways. First, it offers and
develops a comprehensive Lean model based on a sound framework. Second,
it examines an historical timeline of significant Lean contributions. Third, it
extends Lean by offering a glimpse into its future.