Creating a Lean Culture: Tools to Sustain Lean Conversions | Date: 28 April 2011, 02:51
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Creating a Lean Culture: Tools to Sustain Lean Conversions
By David Mann
* Publisher: Productivity Press
* Number Of Pages: 224
* Publication Date: 2005-05-13
* ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1563273225
* ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781563273223
Product Description:
Lean production has been proven unbeatable in organizing production operations, yet the majority of attempts to implement lean end in disappointing results. The critical factor so often overlooked is that lean implementation requires day-to-day, hour-by-hour management practices and skills that leaders in conventional batch-and-queue environments are neither familiar nor comfortable with.
Creating a Lean Culture helps lean leaders succeed in their personal batch-to-lean transformation. It provides a practical guide to implementing the missing links needed to sustain a lean implementation. Mann provides critical guidance on developing and using the key elements of a lean management system, including: leader standard work, visual controls, daily accountability processes, maintaining a process focus, managing key HR issues, and much more. In addition, a questionnaire is included to help assess current management practices and monitor progress.
Highlights: Distinguishes the much-discussed, abstract concept of "lean culture" from the concrete, implementable practices of lean management. Describes and illustrates 4 key principles of lean management: leader standard work; visual controls; daily accountability process, and discipline. Shows how visual controls bring process focus to life, tie in lean's requirement for highly disciplined execution, and make leaders' new jobs far easier to explain, model and evaluate. Moves beyond models and theories of lean management to show how to implement the daily practices that are the key to implementing and sustaining a lean transformation. Lots of case examples, figures and photographs.
Summary: Management is culture: change your management and dont ever change back
Rating: 5
The book is worth the money.
What I learned here, I see nowhere else.
The examples are clear; the message is clear.
I am glad I bought it.
Summary: Lean culture
Rating: 5
This is the third copy of this book I have bought. I not only recommend this book, I buy it with my own money and give to colleagues. It's that good.
Summary: Creating a Lean Culture
Rating: 5
If you are a manager, spend your next holidays reading this book. The value it brings resides in bridging between the tools to apply to implement Lean in your company, and how to actually manage the change and the new, improved processes. Often we have seen shopfloor crews highly involved, motivated and employing Lean tools to improve the processes they are a part of, only to realise with a shock that their managers kept themselves in their comfort zone, sitting in their offices, as if Lean was just another bit to add to "business as usual". This is where the "Lean doesn't work here" syndrome stems from. Again, if you are a manager you have two options: get people to do the improvement work for you, whilst you keep yourself busy doing all the wrong things; or learn how to improve and guide the processes you are supposed to manage. Your job may depend on it.
Summary: Right Up There With 'Lean Thinking'
Rating: 5
Just one heck of a resource. The only thing that keeps me from kicking myself for not buying it 10 years ago is that it has only been in print for three years. HIGHLY recommended to those who are responsible for leading an organization through a lean transformation.
Summary: The best functional guide to lean
Rating: 5
I searched high and low for a book on Lean manufacturing to better understand its application and function. To many authors go into theory and academic explanations or dialogs of Japanese words. This was what I was looking for! I found this book so valuable that I made it required reading for my entire staff.
We have now started on the lean journey.
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