Lean Misconceptions : Why Many Lean Initiatives Fail and How You Can Avoid the Mistakes

Title: Lean Misconceptions : Why Many Lean Initiatives Fail and How You Can Avoid the Mistakes
Author: Cordell Hensley
ISBN: 113821745X / 9781138217454
Format: Hard Cover
Pages: 163
Publisher: Productivity Press
Year: 2017
Availability: 2 to 3 weeks

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It has been reported that about 70% of performance-improvement initiatives fail to achieve desired results. The primary causes are unrealistic expectations regarding effort and results and too much focus on short-term improvements instead of long-term capability building. Too many consultants and organizations stress the tools and the results they can achieve without considering the long-term implications. Success relies on focusing on both short-term gains and long-term culture change – That is, using the tools as the mechanism for change versus the objective of the change.

Lean Misconceptions: Why Many Lean Initiatives Fail and How You Can Avoid the Mistakes focuses on continuous improvement as well as the tools organizations can use to achieve long-term growth. Readers will gain new knowledge while also challenging their peers, seniors, subordinates, and their own thinking on Lean.

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  • An insiders view to what is wrong with Lean – as opposed to being from someone who has had it done to them or experienced it once or twice.
  • Provides the underlying principles to many of the common tools within Lean – why they exist rather than how to use them.
  • Stories and anecdotes from various industries; manufacturing, aerospace maintenance, pharmaceutical quality control, and investment banking
  • Clearly NOT a silver bullet for CI (as there is no such thing) but a different view on how to build organizational capability to improve, not just to improve.
  • Provides an examination of various other CI techniques and supports Lean as the preferred method/ideology.

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Preface

Chapter 1 : Misconceptions
Chapter 2 : Why and How Do Companies Start Doing Continuous Improvement (CI) Activities?
Chapter 3 : Where Should We Focus
Chapter 4 : A Brief History of Lean
Chapter 5 : Dynamic Organizations
Chapter 6 : The Principles within Lean
Chapter 7 : Making Problems Obvious
Chapter 8 : Solving Problems
Chapter 9 : Share
Chapter 10 : Show
Chapter 11 : What Next?

Appendix
Bibliography
Index