Financial Times Guide to Lean, The How to streamline your organisation, engage employees and create a competitive edge The FT Guides Series

Learn how to make your company more efficient, increase customer value with less work and make better use of your organisation?s resources by implementing a Lean management strategy.

The Financial Times Guide to Lean is a guide to the tools that are used to implement Lean, showing you how to apply Lean practices fully into your organisation or company.

This book offers a comprehensive and objective look at lean strategy and how it can be tailored for different companies.

• Part I: Getting started: Lean orientation and diagnostic phase
• Chapter 1 Lean management
• Chapter 2 Hoshin Kanri strategy deployment
• Chapter 3 Value stream mapping
• Part II: Lean transformation practices
• Chapter 4 Lean methods and tools (part I)
• Chapter 5 Lean methods and tools (part II)
• Chapter 6 Lean methods and tools (part III)
• Chapter 7 Lean methods and tools (part IV)
• Chapter 8 Lean methods and tools (part V)
• Chapter 9 Lean methods and tools (part VI)
• Part III: Leading the Lean transformation
• Chapter 10 Developing the Lean culture
• Chapter 11 The technical side of sustaining Lean
• Chapter 12 The people side of sustaining Lean
• Chapter 13 Putting it all together: The Lean Roadmap to Transformation
• References and further reading
• Glossary
• Appendix
• Index

Andy Brophy is a lean & innovation facilitator who has been working in the lean field for the past twelve years in domains including manufacturing, hospital, software development, hospitality, food and financial services. He is Director of the consultancy business Lean 2 Innovative Thinking. Andy holds a 1st Class MSc in Lean Operations and is a Six Sigma Black Belt. In 2010 he published a co-authored book with John Bicheno called Innovative Lean.

http://www.lean2innovativethinking.com/