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"After a decade of downsizing and reengineering, most companies in North America, Europe, and Japan are still stuck, searching for a formula for sustainable growth and success. The problem, as Womack and Jones explain in Lean Thinking, is that managers have lost sight of value for the customer and how to create it. By focusing on their existing organizations and outdated definitions of value, managers create waste, and the economies of the advanced countries continue to stagnate.".
"What's needed instead is lean thinking to help managers clearly specify value, to line up all the value-creating activities for a specific product along a value stream, and to make value flow smoothly at the pull of the customer in pursuit of perfection. The first part of the book describes each of these concepts and makes them come alive with striking examples.".
"As Lean Thinking clearly demonstrates, these simple ideas can breathe new life into any company in any industry, routinely doubling both productivity and sales while stabilizing employment. But most managers will need guidance on how to make the lean leap in their firm. Part II provides a step-by-step action plan, based on in-depth studies of fifty lean companies in a wide range of industries across the world - including Pratt & Whitney, Porsche, and Toyota.".
"Even those readers who believe they have embraced lean thinking will discover in Part III that another dramatic leap is possible by creating a lean enterprise for each of their product families that tightly links all value-creating activities from concept to product launch, from order to delivery, and from raw materials into the arms of the consumer.
This new concept takes the best features from the American, German, and Japanese industrial traditions and recombines them in a way that can be applied to every economic activity, from long distance travel to construction to health care."--BOOK JACKET.
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Industrial efficiency, Organizational Culture, Value added, Lean manufacturing, Cost Control, Bedrijfsbeleid, Organizational Effeciency, Organization & administration, Organizational effectiveness, Industry, Productie, Organisatiegedrag, Industrial management, Organizational Efficiency, Effizienz, Lean Management, Reorganisation, UnternehmenShowing 5 featured editions. View all 5 editions?
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Lean Thinking: Ballast abwerfen, Unternehmensgewinn steigern
Mar 09, 2013, Campus Verlag GmbH
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Lean Thinking: Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation
2010, Free Press
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Lean thinking: banish waste and create wealth in your corporation
2003, Free Press
in English
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Lean Thinking: Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation, 2nd Ed
Jun 01, 2003, Simon & Schuster Audio
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Lean thinking: banish waste and create wealth in your corporation
1996, Simon & Schuster
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0684810352 9780684810355
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-375) and index.
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