Overview

Lean Thinking clearly demonstrates that these simple ideas can breathe new life into any company in any industry in any country. But most managers need guidance on how to make the lean leap in their firm. Part II provides a step-by-step action plan, based on in-depth studies of more than fifty lean companies in a wide range of industries across the world.

Table of Contents

Lean principles Introduction - Value - The Value Stream - Flow - Pull - Perfection - Thinking to Action: The Lean Leap - The Simple Case - A Harder Case - The Acid Test - Lean Thinking versus German Technik - Mighty Toyota; Tiny Showa - An Action Plan - Lean Enterprise - A Channel for the Stream; a Valley for the Channel – Dreaming About Perfection - Epilogue - The Steady Advance of Lean Thinking

Review from Venkadesh Narayanan, Principal Consultant, Fhyzics