Dennis Pascal - The Remedy Bringing Lean Thinking Out Of The Factory To Transform The Entire Organization - Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
Description: 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 jargon gives the book a wide appeal it is a pleasure to read. The Sequel to the Influential Lean Business Novel Andy & Me The Remedy is a compelling a business fable that shows how Lean quality improvement business practices traditionally associated with manufacturing - - can dramatically improve the service areas of your business - including design engineering sales marketing and all processes in between. Written by Pascal Dennis a leading Lean consultant the story follows Tom Pappas and Rachel Armstrong senior leaders at a desperate automotive company as they try to implement a Lean management system across an entire platform the Chloe a breakthrough "green" car. The future of the company is at stake. Can Tom and Rachel supported by Andy Saito a retired reclusive Toyota executive regain the trust and respect of the customer? Can a venerable but dying company implement Lean practices to every part of their business and learn a new more effective way of managing? Shows you how to use the Lean quality improvement method to fix not just a manufacturing system but an entire company including management design marketing and supply chain Written by Pascal Dennis author of four books on Lean practices and winner of the coveted Shingo Prize for outstanding research contributing to operational excellence Originally developed by Toyota the Lean approach to quality improvement has gained a worldwide following and helped turn around enumerable struggling businesses
Title: The Remedy Bringing Lean Thinking Out Of The Factory To Transform The Entire Organization
Author(s): Dennis Pascal
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
Barcode: 9780470556856
Pages: 272 Pages, Charts: 28 B&W, 0 Color; Photos: 2 B&W, 0 Color; Drawings: 70 B&W, 0 Color
Publication Date: 7/6/2010
Category: Quality Assurance (Qa) & Total Quality Management (Tqm)