The Remedy
Subtitle: Bringing Lean Thinking Out of the Factory to Transform the Entire Organization
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Hoboken
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9780470642986
Subjects: Management; Organizational effectiveness; Total quality management; Business
Description: A powerful business fable that shows you how to spread Lean business practices to every function of your business. Pascal Dennis is a Lean business learner and practitioner who has written four books on the subject of Lean business practices. In The Remedy, he shows how Lean business practices can be expanded from manufacturing to all the other areas of your business-including design, engineering, sales, and marketing and all processes in between-and how doing so builds a more efficient organization at every level. This story follows Tom Pappas and Rachel Armstrong, senior leaders at a despera.
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Table of contents: title: The Remedy: Bringing Lean Thinking Out of the Factory To Transform the Entire Organization; Contents; Acknowledgments; About the Author; Preface; Chapter 1: Motor City Sadness; Chapter 2: Lotus Land; Chapter 3: What Have I Learned?; Chapter 4: How Will We Change Their Thinking?; Chapter 5: Focus and AlignmentWhen You're a Jet, You're a Jet; Chapter 6: Cluing into Chloe; Chapter 7: A Trip to Boston to Dispel the Fog; Chapter 8: MarketingLeaning Out the Mad Men; Chapter 9: Design and EngineeringMaking Knowledge Flow; Chapter 10: Nick Papas Falls into the Abyss.; title: Chapter 11: My Beautiful MindLeaning Out Our Supply ChainChapter 12: Dealers, Spielers, and Concealers; Chapter 13: Scylla and Charybdis; Chapter 14: Be My Phenomena; Glossary; References.