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Lean thinking : banish waste and create wealth in your corporation /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Womack, James P.
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors: Jones, Daniel T.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Free Press, ©2003.
Edition:1st Free Press ed., rev. and updated.
Subjects:
Organizational effectiveness.
Industrial efficiency.
Value added.
Lean manufacturing.
Corporate culture.
Cost control.
Effeciency, Organizational
Industry > organization & administration
Organizational Culture
Cost Control
Efficacité organisationnelle.
Efficience dans l'industrie.
Valeur ajoutée.
Production allégée.
Culture d'entreprise.
Coût > Contrôle.
cost control.
Gestion des connaissances.
Effizienz
Lean Management
Reorganisation
Unternehmen
Organisatiegedrag.
Productie.
Bedrijfsbeleid.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Preface: from lean producation to lean enterprise
  • Preface to the 2003 edition
  • pt. 1. Lean principles
  • Introduction: lean thinking versus muda
  • Value
  • The value stream
  • Flow
  • Pull
  • Perfection
  • pt. 2. From thinking to action: the lean leap
  • The simple case
  • A harder case
  • The acid test
  • Lean thinking versus German technik
  • Mighty Toyota; tiny showa
  • An action plan
  • pt. 3. Lean enterprise
  • A channel for the stream; a valley for the channel
  • Dreaming about perfection
  • pt. 4. Epilogue
  • The steady advance of lean thinking
  • Institutionalizing the revolution
  • Afterword: the lean network
  • Appendix: individuals and organizations who helped
  • Glossary
  • Notes.
  • Index.