Lean Practice: The Key Questions and Learning Processes to Become Self-Reliant in Lean Thinking

Lean Practice is a practical guide to building organisations that consistently deliver value while developing the capabilities of their people. For leaders and practitioners working on lean transformation, the book takes a situational approach. It recognises that every organisation must respond to its own unique challenges. Lean Transformation Framework At the heart of the book is the Lean Transformation Framework (LTF), developed by John Shook (Ex. Toyota Senior Manager). The LTF is built around 5 dimensions and 5 questions for effective change: value, work, capability, behaviour, management systems, and culture. It shows you how to align organisational purpose to create more value for customers, whilst developing people at the same time. Born out of avoiding the failures of prior experiences, the LTF is not a list of things to do. Instead, it provides the questions to ask to apply Lean Thinking & Practice successfully to your unique situation. A key feature of Lean Practice is its practical LTF diagnostic tool. The diagnostic enables readers to assess their current state across the 5 dimensions. This therefore helps identify gaps, clarify priorities, and take targeted action to close them based on their specific situation. Supported by real-world cases, this book helps organisations build capability, improve performance, and sustain change through a learning-based, situational approach to lean transformation. The authors David Brunt, David Marriott & Peter Watkins have spent more than thirty years learning, applying, experimenting with and reflecting on lean thinking and practice. Throughout that journey, they have worked with many organisations and individuals. In doing so, they have helped organisations improve how they work and deliver greater value to customers.