Staying Lean: thriving not just surviving 

Question: How can improvements in operational and commercial aspects of a manufacturing environment be combined and managed in a way that provides the business with long-term business success, and the internal process and people capability to continuously propel that organisation to further improvement?

The book “Staying Lean: Thriving, not just surviving” tells the story of a multi-national organisation’s journey to Lean and how they successfully implemented and sustained Lean to help turn the organisation’s financial performance around.

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 organisations: Strategy and Alignment, Leadership, Behaviour and Engagement as well as the more visible features: Process Management and the application of Lean Technology, Tools and Techniques.

The book is designed to 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 long-term.

Authors: Professor Peter Hines and Dr Pauline Found, Cardiff University 
             Gary Griffiths and Richard Harrison, Managing Consultants, S A Partners 

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