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Book: Staying Lean: Thriving not just Surviving |
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"Staying Lean" tells the story of how a multi-national manufacturing organisation successfully implemented and sustained Lean improvements to help turn around its financial performance. The story is based around the Lean Iceberg model of sustainable change and addresses the often invisible, and hard to copy, enabling elements of successful Lean Management: strategy and alignment, leadership, behaviour and engagement, as well as the more visible enablers: process management and the application of Lean tools and techniques. The book can be used as a practical workbook to guide practitioners along their own Lean journey so that Lean becomes embedded in the organisation and sustains the performance improvements over the longer term. To download a copy of the book, please register on the website and click on the members area.
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Book: Creating World Class Suppliers by Peter Hines |
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This text examines the competitive advantage for manufacturing and service companies achievable through forging innovative relationships with suppliers. This contains international examples and outlines methods, tools and techniques for managers to implement supplier development strategies. Cases include Marks & Spencer, Mercedes, Digital, Harley Davidson and Motorola.
ISBN: 0 273 60300 0
Publisher: Pitman Publishing Ltd
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Book: Good to Great by Jim Collins |
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Based on a five-year research project, Good to Great answers the question: “Can a good company become a great company, and, if so, how?” True to the rigorous research methodology and invigorating teaching style of Jim Collins, Good to Great teaches how even the dowdiest of companies can make the leap to outperform market leaders the likes of Coca-Cola, Intel, General Electric, and Merck.
ISBN: 0712676090
Publisher: Random House
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Book: The Toyota Way by Jeffrey Liker |
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How to speed up business processes, improve quality, and cut costs in any industry. In factories around the world, Toyota consistently makes the highest quality cars with the fewest defects of any competing manufacturer, while using fewer man-hours, less on-hand inventory, and half the floor space of its competitors. The Toyota Way is the first book for a general audience that explains the management principles and business philosophy behind Toyota's worldwide reputation for quality and reliability.
ISBN: 0071392319
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
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