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    Lean Enterprise: The Essential Step-by-Step Guide to Building a Lean Business with Six Sigma, Kanban, and 5S Methodologies: Lean Guides with Scrum, Sprint, Kanban, DSDM, XP & Crystal Book, #4
    Lean Enterprise: The Essential Step-by-Step Guide to Building a Lean Business with Six Sigma, Kanban, and 5S Methodologies: Lean Guides with Scrum, Sprint, Kanban, DSDM, XP & Crystal Book, #4
    Lean Enterprise: The Essential Step-by-Step Guide to Building a Lean Business with Six Sigma, Kanban, and 5S Methodologies: Lean Guides with Scrum, Sprint, Kanban, DSDM, XP & Crystal Book, #4
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    Lean Enterprise: The Essential Step-by-Step Guide to Building a Lean Business with Six Sigma, Kanban, and 5S Methodologies: Lean Guides with Scrum, Sprint, Kanban, DSDM, XP & Crystal Book, #4

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    Are you having trouble figuring out how everything fits together in your business? Are you looking for ways to eliminate wastes in your workflow? Do you want to focus on producing only the best results at every phase of the production line? Perhaps, most importantly, are you thinking of eventually teaming up with like-minded companies to create something that ultimately changes the world for the better?

     

    If you've answered yes to all of these questions, then this book may have what you need to fulfill all of your business goals.

    All too often, many people are running their businesses without any regard for the work process and the customer. The only thing that's important to them is their end goal: to earn massive profits.

     

    When you're too focused on sales and numbers, you won't be able to create the kind of product that earns your customers' lifetime loyalty. It will keep you from seeing that the seemingly effective workflows that you've always used are largely wasteful and inefficient.

    Fortunately, going lean can help you change all of that.

     

    Lean is a customer-centric approach that aims to meet customer demands exactly at their moment of need. While it may sound altruistic on the surface, putting a higher regard on the customer ultimately means better income for your business. By making them your top priority, your company wouldn't end up being a one-hit wonder that never truly understood what the market needs in the first place.

     

    • Here are a few things that you can get from this book:
    • How lean thinking transforms businesses
    • How to identify wastes in your current workflow
    • How shifting to lean can be worth it
    • Proven methodologies for going lean
    • And much more

    Now, you may be wondering whether lean is actually better than your current system. After all, when things are going well enough in your business, why is there a need for change? Thing is, even if things are going perfectly, there will always be that one thing that you can improve on.

    A simple assessment of your workflow can be all it takes to make your entire system a lot more efficient. Just imagine how much more you can do when you have it all figured out. If you think that everything is already fine as it is, lean will make you realize that the future can always be better than yesterday.

    The changes that you need to implement are all in your hands. Transform your business into a lean machine and watch your workforce deliver the quality products that you've always wanted to be known for!

     

    What are you waiting for? Scroll up and click "Buy Now" today!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGreg Caldwell
    Release dateJul 18, 2020
    ISBN9781393349419
    Lean Enterprise: The Essential Step-by-Step Guide to Building a Lean Business with Six Sigma, Kanban, and 5S Methodologies: Lean Guides with Scrum, Sprint, Kanban, DSDM, XP & Crystal Book, #4

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      Lean Enterprise - Greg Caldwell

      Lean Enterprise

      The Essential Step-by-Step Guide to Building a Lean Business with Six Sigma, Kanban, and 5S Methodologies

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      Table of Contents

      PART ONE: The Principles Behind Lean Thinking

      Introduction: What Do We Mean by Lean Enterprise?

      Lean Company, Lean Manufacturing, and Lean Enterprise

      Lean Thinking and Lean Behaviors

      Lean as the Key to Productivity

      Chapter 1: How Lean Businesses are Built

      The 7 Principles of Lean Thinking

      The 5 Principles of Lean Manufacturing

      Takeaway

      Chapter 2: The Primary Wastes of Lean Systems

      The Toyota Production System (TPS)

      DOWNTIME: The 8 Deadly Wastes of Lean Systems

      Takeaway

      Chapter 3: The Major Benefits of Going Lean

      Shifting to Lean: What’s in It for You?

      What are the Challenges?

      Takeaway

      PART TWO: Tools for Building Lean Systems

      Chapter 4: The (Lean) Six Sigma Methodology for Continuous Improvement

      Lean, Six Sigma, and Lean Six Sigma

      The DMAIC Roadmap

      Who Will Gain from Lean Six Sigma?

      Takeaway

      Chapter 5: The Kanban System for Backlog Reduction

      Kanban: The Original Scheduling System for Lean Manufacturing

      The Core Principles of Kanban

      Integrating Kanban into the Workplace

      Takeaway

      Chapter 6: The 5S Process for Workspace Organization

      Workspaces and Process Efficiency

      Takeaway

      Conclusion: Greatness is Possible in the Absence of Wastes

      Thank you

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      PART ONE

      The Principles Behind Lean Thinking

      Improvement usually means doing something that we have never done before.

      —Shigeo Shingo

      Introduction: What Do We Mean by Lean Enterprise?

      The difference between market takers and market makers isn’t product innovation, it’s business model innovation.

      —Vala Afshar

      What sets apart the companies that have stood the test of time from those that failed to take off? Well, aside from learning how to polish their branding, they continuously work on improving their human capital and management systems — changing accordingly with the times, and adjusting their strategies as they seem fit.

      In contrast, brands that were never heard of again weren’t able to plant a firm footing in the industry. It’s mainly because each step in their workflow had issues that they weren’t able to solve. It most likely didn’t occur all at once, though. More often than not, a failed business’ downfall started with

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