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Lean Thinking: Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation

by James P. Womack, Daniel T. Jones
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Lean Thinking: Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation
Lean Thinking: Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation

Streamline business, boost wealth, embrace lean principles.

If you want to transform the way you think about running a business, "Lean Thinking" is a crucial read. It provides not just a philosophy but a concrete action plan that has been battle-tested across various industries. This book could change how you approach value, efficiency, and long-term growth in a way that could very well set your enterprise on a path to consistent improvement and increased competitiveness.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Lean Thinking: Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation

by James P. Womack, Daniel T. Jones
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ISBN: 9780743249270
Authors: James P. Womack, Daniel T. Jones
Publisher: Free Press
Date of Publication: 2003-06-10
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Business, Personal Development
Related Topics: Management, Entrepreneurship, Productivity, Leadership, Self Help, Personal Development, Personal Development, Business, Leadership, Productivity
Goodreads rating: 3.92
(rated by 5906 readers)

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Expanded, updated, and more relevant than ever, this bestselling business classic by two internationally renowned management analysts describes a business system for the twenty-first century that supersedes the mass production system of Ford, the financial control system of Sloan, and the strategic system of Welch and GE. It is based on the Toyota (lean) model, which combines operational excellence with value-based strategies to produce steady growth through a wide range of economic conditions. In contrast with the crash-and-burn performance of companies trumpeted by business gurus in the 1990s, the firms profiled in Lean Thinking -- from tiny Lantech to midsized Wiremold to niche producer Porsche to gigantic Pratt & Whitney -- have kept on keeping on, largely unnoticed, along a steady upward path through the market turbulence and crushed dreams of the early twenty-first century. Meanwhile, the leader in lean thinking -- Toyota -- has set its sights on leadership of the global motor vehicle industry in this decade. Instead of constantly reinventing business models, lean thinkers go back to basics by asking what the customer really perceives as value. The next step is to line up value-creating activities for a specific product along a value stream while eliminating activities that don't add value. Then the lean thinker creates a flow condition in which the design and the product advance smoothly and rapidly at the pull of the customer. Finally, as flow and pull are implemented, the lean thinker speeds
 

Streamline business, boost wealth, embrace lean principles.

If you want to transform the way you think about running a business, "Lean Thinking" is a crucial read. It provides not just a philosophy but a concrete action plan that has been battle-tested across various industries. This book could change how you approach value, efficiency, and long-term growth in a way that could very well set your enterprise on a path to consistent improvement and increased competitiveness.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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