Title: A Factory of One : Applying Lean Principles to Banish Waste and Improve Your Personal Performance Author: Daniel Markovitz ISBN: 0367480115 / 9780367480110 Format: Hard Cover Pages: 177 Publisher: Productivity Press Year: 2020 Availability: In Stock Special Indian Edition Price at Rs.1495/-. FREE Shipping within India. Delivery : Within 2 to 4 working days.
Description
Contents
Most business readers have heard of the Lean principles developed for factories - a set of tools and ideas that have enabled companies to dramatically boost quality by reducing waste and errors - producing more while using less. Yet until now, few have recognized how relevant these powerful ideas are to individuals and their daily work. Every person at a desk, drafting table, workstation, or operating table must (like a factory) deal with the challenge of reducing the waste that creeps into their work. The same Lean principles that have improved efficiencies on the factory floor can be just as powerful - in fact, far more so - in helping individuals boost personal performance.
A Factory of One: Applying Lean Principles to Banish Waste and Improve Your Personal Performance describes how you can foster a new mindset and improve your performance by applying Lean methods to your work. It translates powerful Lean tools such as visual management, flow, pull, 5S, and kaizen to your daily work, revealing how they can help to improve efficiency, reduce waste, and link you ever more closely to customer value. This practice will help you develop better self-awareness, more disciplined problem-solving skills, and the ability to self-correct errors.
This book not only provides the tools, but also teaches you how to find the root causes underlying your inefficiencies so you can eliminate them permanently. It will enable you to immediately improve personal productivity while developing the skills needed for continuous improvement. It includes real-world examples that illustrate how these principles have been successfully applied across a range of industries. Providing the perfect mix of what-to-do with why-to-do it, the text details a step-by-step approach to applying Lean principles to your work.
Introduction
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 : What’s Your Job?
Why Is It So Tough to Create Value?
What the Heck Is Your Work, Anyway?
Going to the Gemba
What’s It All About?
Next Steps
Notes
Chapter 2 : Spotting Value, Spotting Waste
Allison’s Story
Introducing 5S
What Is Information 5S?
A Lesson from the Chefs
Applying 5S to Information
The $14 Million Check
The Desktop
The Absurdity of Out of Sight, Out of Mind
Frequency-Based Organization
But First
Translating the Concept to Electronics
E-mail: The Problem Child
Back to Allison
Systemic Information 5S
Remember, It’s a Means to an End
Next Steps
Notes
Chapter 3 : Flow
Flow
Daily Work Processes
Routine Work: Your Job Requires More than Just Creative Genius (Unfortunately)
Transforming the Creative into the Transactional
Next Steps
Notes
Chapter 4 : Visual Management
Introduction
What Is Visual Management?
The Irony of Out of Sight, Out of Mind
Why All Those To-Do Lists Don’t Work
Living in the Calendar
The Calendar as Kanban
The Calendar and the Task Pad
Caution: Don’t Treat Your Calendar Like Your Gas Tank
The Old Movies Had It Right
Sometimes a Little Inventory Is Okay
Of Course, Life Never Goes According to Plan
Assessing Personal Production Capacity
But, What If You’re Allergic to Calendars?
The Simpler Method: The Personal Kanban
Four Easy Steps
The Incredibly Flexible Kanban
Other Types of Visual Management
Reflexive versus Cognitive Systems
Reducing Ambiguity
Next Steps
Notes
Chapter 5 : From Bad to Good, and From Good to Great