Applied Lean Business Transformation: A Complete Project Management Approach

Are you already convinced on the benefits of Lean, but are not sure whether it is right for your organization, or how to go about achieving it? This unique desk reference offers a set of business tools to estimate the savings, improved performance, increased market share and ROI that can be realized with a Lean system in your organization compared to your current strategy. It then provides a series of objective, scientific, and mathematically modeled practical techniques presented in chronological order so that a Lean transformation can be implemented throughout an enterprise and its supply chains using good project management practices.

Key Features:

--Presents a set of business tools for mathematically determining whether a transformation to a Lean operating system would be a good financial decision for your organization
--Provides a functional set of tools for designing, maintaining, improving, and operating a Lean system, and objectively deriving and reporting results
--Describes how to redesign service, transactional, and administrative processes into multi-process cells to complete tasks in the sum of their work content time, and how to start and operate a Lean line on a daily basis
--Explains how traditional planning methods and goals must be modified to work in concert with a Lean operating system
--WAV offers downloadable standard work and operation definition templates, a Lean line control board, a line start-up checklist, and other aids -- available from the Web Added Value Download Resource Center at jrosspub.com

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Chapter 1: Waste in Traditional Manufacturing
Chapter 2: The Lean Operating System: A Different Way of Thinking
Chapter 3: Identifying the Benefits of a Lean Operating System
Chapter 4: A Lean Business Transformation Is Not a Grass-roots Project: It Must Be Led
Chapter 6: Identification of Processes Required to Produce Lean Line Products
Chapter 7: Resource Identification and Lean Line Design
Chapter 8: Component Material Strategies
Chapter 9: Operation of the Material System & Supplier Certification
Chapter 10: A Process is a Process: Lean Methods Are Applicable to any Series of Processes
Chapter 11: Taking Lean Technology to the Next Level
Chapter 12: Lean across the Enterprise
Index