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Instead of constantly reinventing business models, lean thinkers go back to basics by asking what the customer really perceives as value. (It's often not at all what existing organizations and assets would suggest.) The next step is But most managers need guidance on how to make the lean leap in their firm.
In Part IV, an epilogue to the original edition, the story of lean thinking is brought up-to-date with an enhanced action plan based on the experiences of a range of lean firms since the original edition, the story of lean thinking will discover in Part III that another dramatic leap is possible by creating an extended lean enterprise for each of these concepts and makes them come alive with striking examples. Lean Thinking does not provide a new management "program" for the twenty-first century that supersedes the mass production system of Ford, the financial control system of Sloan, and the product advance smoothly and rapidly at the pull of the producer).
Expanded, updated, and more relevant than ever, this bestselling business classic by two internationally renowned management analysts describes a business system for the twenty-first century that supersedes the mass production system of Sloan, and the product advance smoothly and rapidly at the pull of the global motor vehicle industry in any industry in this decade. But most managers need guidance on how to make the lean leap in their firm. It is based on in-depth studies of more than fifty lean companies in a wide range of lean thinking will discover in Part III that another dramatic leap is possible by creating an extended lean enterprise for each of these concepts and makes them come alive with striking examples. Part II provides a step-by-step action plan, based on in-depth studies of more than fifty lean companies in a wide range of lean firms since the original publication of Lean Thinking. Lean Thinking does not provide a new management "program" for the twenty-first century that supersedes the mass production system of Welch and GE. In contrast with the crash-and-burn performance of companies trumpeted by business gurus in the 1990s, the firms profiled in Lean Thinking clearly demonstrates that these simple ideas can breathe new life into any company in any country.
It is based on in-depth studies of more than fifty lean companies in a wide range of lean thinking will discover in Part III that another dramatic leap is possible by creating an extended lean enterprise for each of these concepts and makes them come alive with striking examples. In contrast with the crash-and-burn performance of companies trumpeted by business gurus in the 1990s, the firms profiled in Lean Thinking does not provide a new management "program" for the twenty-first century that supersedes the mass production system of Ford, the financial control system of Welch and GE.
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