Building a Sustainable Lean Culture: An Implementation Guide

by Tina Agustiady, Elizabeth A. Cudney

Overview

This book is an implementation guide for creating a Lean Culture from the ground up while gaining buy-in from key stakeholders and being able to sustain the results. Everyone talks about implementing a Lean Culture, but only provides Lean Tools for the implementation. This book discusses implementing the entire system from three main aspects. It covers the people (structural and cultural), the operation system, and the tools. Also included is a full set of case studies to show real-life implementations as well.

FEATURES:

• Discusses Leader Standard work for all employees
• Covers the escalation process for tiers and daily accountability
• Shows how to deal with a change of SOP's and standardization within an organization
• Presents exercises for Lean Tools Implementation
• Offers real-life case studies of implementing a Lean Culture while sustaining it

Building a Sustainable Lean Culture: An Implementation Guide discusses Lean Leadership from a managerial standpoint and ensures the Lean journey succeeds through accountability, standardized work, and technological advances utilizing Lean Systems.

Useful in manufacturing, services, IT, and healthcare, this book includes the implementation of empowering employees to want to build a Lean Culture.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781032287713
Publisher:	CRC Press
Publication date:	10/07/2024
Series:	Continuous Improvement Series
Pages:	268
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Tina Agustiady, Elizabeth A. Cudney

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgement

Authors

Chapter 1 Introduction to Lean and the Importance of Cultural Change

Chapter 2 Management Support

Chapter 3 Hoshin Kanri

Chapter 4 The Tools

Chapter 5 Building a Sustainable Lean culture Case Study: Process Improvementr

Chapter 6 Business Process Management Cast Study

Chapter 7 Employing Hoshin Kanri to Drive Lean Implementation and Culture Change

Chapter 8 Continuous Improvement Toolkit