Synopsis
The most powerful Lean Book you will ever own! View a video book summary at wcmfg.com/Book_info.htm For years, Industry Week magazine has reported that roughly 75% of companies using Lean as their business improvement activity have reported little, if any, progress. Since Lean can solve any business problem, why are 75% of organizations using Lean showing such little progress, when properly implemented Lean activities can show significant progress in the first year? The answer is that business organizations are not closing the loop between their business strategies, plans, budgets, and Lean as the system to make the plans a reality. Our new step-by-step workbook will show you how to close the loop between your business plans and your lean activities. In our book, we discuss and walk through the following 10 Steps to Policy Deployment using Lean as a System: 1. Establish a Mission and Guiding Principles 2. Develop Business Goals 3. Brainstorm Opportunities to Achieve Goals 4. Define parameters to value opportunities 5. Establish Weighting Requirements, Rate Opportunities, & Prioritize 6. Conduct a Reality Check 7. Develop Lean Implementation Plan 8. Develop Bowling Chart 9. Countermeasures 10. Conducting Business Reviews. Our easy to follow workbook also contains sample spreadsheets on CD that will allow you to customize our 10 Step process to your unique organization. This groundbreaking new book is the key to using Lean as a system and will ensure that you are using Lean to its maximum potential.
Review
As global competitiveness increases at an exponential rate and the world s economies dive into recession, Fayad's and Rubrich's book, more than ever, becomes a must read. Their breadth and depth of experience provides a clear and concise step-by-step process to create a culture based on Lean principles that transcend functional departments, product divisions, and geographical disparity. Value Creation is the product of this book! --Bob Ayers, Director at Watts Water Technologies Inc. and T3 Energy Services Inc
This book explains and demonstrates a very powerful and useful tool in an extremely easy-to-follow format. It is concise and the explanations are in simple terms. A well trained and motivated Leadership Team can use this tool very effectively. --Ray Schumer, Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Little Rapids Corporation
This is the first book I have ever seen that provides senior management with a roadmap. The 10 Step process is excellent and easy to follow. If management follows the 10 Steps, and is willing to instill the discipline within their organization to follow each step, the organization will be using Lean as a way of running their business, not just using certain tools of Lean. --Jim Haney, VP Operations, Wabash Valley Manufacturing, Inc.
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