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Books : Creating a Lean Culture: Tools to Sustain Lean ConversionsIn association with Amazon.comby: David Mann  List Price: $35.00 Amazon.com's Price: $31.50 You Save: $3.50 (10%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 658.401 EAN: 9781563273223 ISBN: 1563273225 Label: Productivity Press Manufacturer: Productivity Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 224 Publication Date: May 13, 2005 Publisher: Productivity Press Studio: Productivity Press Sales Rank: 7228 Accessories:
Editorial Review: Product Description: 2006 SHINGO PRIZE for EXCELLENCE in MANUFACTURING RESEARCH 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 andmonitor progress. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Right Up There With 'Lean Thinking'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. Rating: - The best functional guide to leanI 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. Rating: - Excellent Start for Culture ChangeThis book is an excellent start to navigating a lean culture change. David Mann challenges you to change your "management system" in order to change your culture. Once focus is put on the "management system" you can observe, and measure impact which will then translate into cultural shifts. The book is well written and full of concrete examples of actual implementations as well as roadblocks. Rating: - Great starting point when creating a lean environmentIf a manufacturing company is looking to create a lean environment, this is a great book to start out with. This covers the main essentials of lean, visual factory, standard work...simple yet powerful. We have seen great improvments in team work & productivity in our product lines. Be patient because changes don't happen overnight. Rating: - Great reference on real leanThis book fills an essential gap between Liker's Toyota Way and the many books on Lean Tools. We intentionally didn't begin our lean transformation in our large service orgnization until we had this book because we saw the folly in trying to implement a bunch of lean tools without the necessary management system. We have visited some Tier 1 Toyota suppliers and Kaizen really means continuous improvement not a succession of week-long projects that many big-time consultants ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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