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Book SynopsisWinner of the Shingo Prize for Excellence in Quality Improvement -From the Shingo judges:
This work has an extremely widespread application as the tools, techniques, and methods described are at a level that achieves the goals of Lean and operational excellence without tying them down to a specific industry or work stream. The book provides practical knowledge for lean champions, managers, and executives driving toward operational excellence enterprise-wide. The story format, and the presentation of this material was excellent, and the avoidance of lean and operational excellence jargon gives the book a wide appealit is a pleasure to read.
The Sequel to the Influential Lean Business Novel Andy & Me
The Remedy is a compelling a business fable that shows how Lean quality improvement business practicestraditionally associated with manufacturing--can dramatically improve the service areas of your business-including design, engineering,
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments xi
About the Author xiii
Preface xv
1 Motor City Sadness 1
Overview of Lean fundamentals
How Lean looks different in white-collar environments vs. the factory
Waste in health care and the restaurant business
2 Lotus Land 19
The nature of big companies
Big Company Disease
Obstacles to transforming big companies
Role of the Shusa
3 What Have I Learned? 37
Lean fundamentals
Lean thinking—core mental models
Waste in business processes
Introduction to problem solving
Nature of transformation
4 How Will We Change Their Thinking? 67
Reflections on how to deepen and extend mental models
The nature of value and waste in knowledge work
Grasping the situation by going to see for yourself
Basics of system thinking
5 Focus and Alignment—When You’re a Jet, You’re a Jet 85
Fundamentals of strategy deployment
Defining True North, our strategic and philosophical objective
How strategy making actually works in organizations
How the New York Jets might apply strategy deployment
6 Cluing into Chloe 103
Politics in large organizations
Creating a shared vision
Strategy deployment in action
Deploying targets and tactics through Catchball
7 A Trip to Boston to Dispel the Fog 121
Role of the leader
The Water Ring model
How complex systems fail—and succeed
The Four Rules—Standards, Connections, Pathways, Improvement
The Remedy to Big Company Disease
8 Marketing—Leaning Out the Mad Men 137
Marketing basics
Mental models in marketing
Waste and value in marketing
Yamazume
Takt, flow, and pull in Marketing
Expected, Specified, and Delightful Value
9 Design and Engineering—Making Knowledge Flow 157
Mental models in Design
Value and waste in Design and Engineering
Production physics—implications for Design
Small batch learning
Takt, flow, and pull in Design
Set-based concurrent engineering
10 Nick Papas Falls into the Abyss 173
Mental models in health care
Value and waste in health care
Lean fundamentals in health care
Our health-care mess—root cause and countermeasures
The Four Capabilities
The remedy to Big Company Disease—reprise
11 My Beautiful Mind—Leaning Out Our Supply Chain 187
Mental models in supply chain
The Nash equilibrium
The importance of information flow
The Groundhog Day effect
The bullwhip effect—causes and countermeasures
What is heijunka?
Process and system kaizen
12 Dealers, Spielers, and Concealers 205
Mental models in retail
Principles of Lean provision
Provision/consumption maps
Politics in large organizations
Financial aspects of Lean
Possible effects of standard cost accounting
Lean in Human Resources
13 Scylla and Charybdis 225
Politics in large organizations
14 Be My Phenomena 235
Nature of transformation
Ethics
The cardinal virtues
Lean leadership
Glossary 247
References 251
