ESCP Europe

"The authors claim to show how lean thinking with a new definition of value can breathe life into a company or economic activity, doubling productivity and sales whilst stabilizing employment, by providing a step by step plan based on in depth studies of fifty lean companies around the world" by Worldcat.

PART I: LEAN PRINCIPLES --- Introduction: Lean thinking versus Muda --- 1. Value --- 2. The value stream --- 3. Flow --- 4. Pull --- 5. Perfection --- PART II: FROM THINKING TO ACTION: THE LEAN LEAP --- 6. The simple case --- 7. A harder case --- 8. The acid test --- 9. Lean thinking versus German technik --- 10. Mighty Toyota; tiny Showa --- 11. An action plan --- PART III: LEAN ENTERPRISE --- 12. A channel for the stream; a valley for the channel --- 13. Dreaming about perfection --- PART IV: EPILOGUE --- 14. The steady advance of lean thinking --- 15. Institutionalizing the revolution --- Afterword: The lean network --- Appendix: Individuals and organizations who helped..