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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821309803321

Autore

Dennis Pascal <1957->

Titolo

The remedy : bringing lean thinking out of the factory to transform the entire organization / / Pascal Dennis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, N.J., : John Wiley & Sons, c2010

ISBN

0-470-64300-5

1-282-65374-1

9786612653742

0-470-64298-X

Edizione

[1st edition]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (271 p.)

Classificazione

85.10

Disciplina

658.4/013

Soggetti

Organizational effectiveness

Total quality management

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-252).

Nota di contenuto

The Remedy: Bringing Lean Thinking Out of the Factory To Transform the Entire Organization; Contents; Acknowledgments; About the Author; Preface; Chapter 1: Motor City Sadness; Chapter 2: Lotus Land; Chapter 3: What Have I Learned?; Chapter 4: How Will We Change Their Thinking?; Chapter 5: Focus and Alignment-When You're a Jet, You're a Jet; Chapter 6: Cluing into Chloe; Chapter 7: A Trip to Boston to Dispel the Fog; Chapter 8: Marketing-Leaning Out the Mad Men; Chapter 9: Design and Engineering-Making Knowledge Flow; Chapter 10: Nick Papas Falls into the Abyss

Chapter 11: My Beautiful Mind-Leaning Out Our Supply ChainChapter 12: Dealers, Spielers, and Concealers; Chapter 13: Scylla and Charybdis; Chapter 14: Be My Phenomena; Glossary; References

Sommario/riassunto

Winner of the Shingo Prize for Excellence in Quality Improvement -From the Shingo judges: This work has an extremely widespread application as the tools, techniques, and methods described are at a level that achieves the goals of Lean and operational excellence without tying them down to a specific industry or work stream. The book provides practical knowledge for  lean champions, managers, and executives driving toward operational excellence enterprise-wide.  The



story format, and the presentation of this material was excellent, and the avoidance of lean and operational excellence