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Book Review: Lean Health 0
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- December 19, 2016
It’s the time of year when people start to think of resolutions (personal improvement) for the coming year. Many have a goal to reduce weight and improve health. As a Lean practitioner I am always interested to see how people have applied Lean thinking to improve their environment. Paul Akers, well known Lean enthusiast with
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Book Review: 12 Principles of Manufacturing Excellence 0
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- June 8, 2016
Explaining how to implement and sustain a top-down strategy for manufacturing excellence, The 12 Principles of Manufacturing Excellence: A Leader’s Guide to Achieving and Sustaining Excellence, by Larry E. Fast (CRC Press, 2011), provides a comprehensive, proven approach for delivering world-class performance while also cultivating the right culture through leadership and mentoring. Written for operations
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Top 10+ Lean Manufacturing Books 0
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- May 23, 2016
Luckily, there is no shortage of literature on Lean Manufacturing over the last several decades. I have been fortunate to read many books from a great many authors on a number of aspects on Lean. A good book can be a great place for some to learn about Lean and how to implement the concepts
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Book Review: The Lean CEO 0
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- May 11, 2016
There has been a lot of literature on Lean implementations over its initial 25 years but now there is a book providing new insight. The Lean CEO: Leading the Way to World-Class Excellence by Jacob Stoller is the result of in-depth conversations with over 30 individuals who have been expanding the borders of Lean thinking
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Book Review: Lean Culture Change – Using a Daily Management System 0
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- April 27, 2016
There are many books that explain the why, the what, the when and the where. These are all very important. However without the how – the needed execution to achieve – high performance will not take place. Lean Culture Change does an amazing job all tying all the tools together to deploy and practice a
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Book Review: The Dark Matter and Dark Energy of Lean Thinking 0
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- April 25, 2016
Lean Thinking promises much, but delivers at best a thirty percent success rate. Author Bob Brown, a certified Lean Thinking leader, attacks this problem the same way astrophysicists understand the workings of the universe. Assuming there is a reason for the abysmal results of change management, especially with Lean Thinking initiatives, he postulated Lean Thinking
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