Lean thinking: banish waste and create wealth in your corporation
Material type: TextPublication details: London Simon & Schuster 2003 Description: 396 pISBN: 9780743231640Subject(s): Organizational effectiveness | Industrial efficiency | Lean manufacturing | Organizational changeDDC classification: 658.4012 Summary: Lean Thinking was launched in the fall of 1996, just in time for the recession of 1997. It told the story of how American, European, and Japanese firms applied a simple set of principles called 'lean thinking' to survive the recession of 1991 and grow steadily in sales and profits through 1996. Even though the recession of 1997 never happened, companies were starving for information on how to make themselves leaner and more efficient. Now we are dealing with the recession of 2001 and the financial meltdown of 2002. So what happened to the exemplar firms profiled in Lean Thinking? In the new fully revised edition of this bestselling book those pioneering lean thinkers are brought up to date. Authors James Womack and Daniel Jones offer new guidelines for lean thinking firms and bring their groundbreaking practices to a brand new generation of companies that are looking to stay one step ahead of the competitionItem type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Book | Indian Institute of Management LRC General Stacks | Human Resource and Organization Behvaiour | 658.4012 WOM (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 000940 |
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658.4012 SLO Learning to think strategically | 658.4012 TJE Transformative strategies: | 658.4012 WIL Organizing for resilience: | 658.4012 WOM Lean thinking: banish waste and create wealth in your corporation | 658.4013 AND Continuous improvement: seek perfection, embrace scientific thinking, focus on process, assure quality at the source, and improve flow and pull | 658.4013 DEM Performance management systems: design, diagnosis and use | 658.4013 MOR Be data driven: |
Lean Thinking was launched in the fall of 1996, just in time for the recession of 1997. It told the story of how American, European, and Japanese firms applied a simple set of principles called 'lean thinking' to survive the recession of 1991 and grow steadily in sales and profits through 1996. Even though the recession of 1997 never happened, companies were starving for information on how to make themselves leaner and more efficient. Now we are dealing with the recession of 2001 and the financial meltdown of 2002. So what happened to the exemplar firms profiled in Lean Thinking? In the new fully revised edition of this bestselling book those pioneering lean thinkers are brought up to date. Authors James Womack and Daniel Jones offer new guidelines for lean thinking firms and bring their groundbreaking practices to a brand new generation of companies that are looking to stay one step ahead of the competition
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