| | |  | Lean Manufacturing | Home » » » » Going Lean: How the Best Companies Apply Lean Manufacturing Principles to Shatter Uncertainty, Drive Innovation, and Maximize Profits | | | | | | | Description: | | In the wake of economic downturn, foreign competition, spiking oil prices, and even war, American business throughout this decade has been thrust into crisis. To improve their performance, corporations everywhere have adopted a wide range of tools and techniques, yet many continue to struggle. Going Lean points to a better way. Drawing from the lessons of a new breed of companies that have stood apart, it sets aside the notion that efficient operations and powerful innovations are possible only when business is steady and demand is growing. By using lean dynamics—based on principles from the now-famous Toyota Production System—it shows how companies everywhere can thrive across a broad range of changing conditions. In Going Lean, you will learn how to: set a critical foundation for achieving sustained excellence • identify sources of lag and create robust value streams that thrive in today’s dynamic conditions • describe the underlying techniques to maintain steady and predictable flow • create a system driven by customer demand that consistently introduces new innovation even during downturns • strive for perfection • deliver industry-leading returns | | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Stephen A. Ruffa | | Publisher:
| Brilliance Audio on CD | | Publication Date:
| June 19, 2008 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 1423364562 | | Product Length:
| 7.1 inches | | Product Width:
| 5.26 inches | | Product Height:
| 1.44 inches | | Product Weight:
| 0.34 pounds | | Package Length:
| 6.9 inches | | Package Width:
| 5.1 inches | | Package Height:
| 1.5 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.3 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 9 reviews |
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5 of 5 found the following review helpful:
 Lean Dynamics in a Chaotic WorldJul 16, 2008
By Patricia E. Moody CMC
"Tricia"
When traditional managers apply traditional methods to chaotic events - Katrina, for example,or steep oil price increases - they get - you guessed it - traditional, disappointing results. Enter Steve Ruffa's approach to lean, as demonstrated by Toyota,Walmart and Southwest Airlines, three notches and two thousand miles above day to day lean operations. Ruffa provides hard answers and clear examples to the questions managers have been struggling with for over 15 years - how to take lean into bigger, crazier, more dangerous environments. Cross a hard aerospace engineer who loves real numbers, with great and flexible lean giants, and what you get is an over-riding lean approach dubbed Lean Dynamics by Shingo Prize winning author Ruffa, that US industries need right now. My only complaint? The title should have been Lean Dynamics.
5 of 5 found the following review helpful:
A Must have for the Lean Practitioner!Jul 14, 2008
By Joseph J. Hall
"Lean Meister"
This Audio CD of the Book "Going Lean" by Stephen Ruffa is a must have for the Lean Practitioner or any one in a leadership postion in the 21st Century who wants to lead their team to excellence.
Ruffa does a great analysis and expands on current (2008) global business culture for multinational corporations in current times. Going Lean brings us up to date on earlier publication by Jim Womack, (The Machine that changed the World, Lean Thinking) and Liker's (The Toyota Way). Ruffa also gives credit and supports the early Lean Pioneers (Henry Ford, Ono, Deming, Peter Drucker and more experts within the recent age of digitalization and globalization.
A good reference source for Business school students at the undergraduate and Graduate School Level.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
A Must ReadJan 12, 2009
By David J. Rizzardo
Going Lean is a must read for both the Lean veterans and those just initiating their Lean journeys. Again, Ruffa successfully provides an excellent book that doesn't just fall into the "same as" type of Lean category. By providing data on organizations across diverse sectors, he shows the far reaching applicability of Lean principles. His "value curve" clearly depicts the separation of the Lean versus the not-quite-so Lean organizations, and Ruffa's work, as usual, is backed by solid research. I highly recommend this book.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
How to use lean dynamics to thrive in chaotic conditionsSep 01, 2009
By Rolf Dobelli
"getAbstract"
People and organizations too often find that the very things they did to prepare for emergencies end up making their problems worse. Stephen A. Ruffa shows you how to use the "lean dynamics" approach to track "lag" within your operations and eliminate it before it harms your competitiveness and makes you less adaptable in a crisis. He explains how to determine where lag is hiding and how to root it out. He offers a solid plan for launching lean dynamics and getting everyone on board. Ruffa also explains how to measure and maximize value within the lean dynamics system, and tells you how to stay ahead of the "value curve." Ruffa writes clearly and illustrates his principles by comparing Toyota and the Detroit automakers, Wal-Mart and Kmart, and Southwest and other major airlines. getAbstract recommends his book to anyone interested in learning about a new approach to business operations.
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Wow - what a pile of clear thoughtApr 13, 2009
By Vitek Filip
I believe this book offers a great pile of facts on why some of the production factories go terribly off the road recently.
Thumbs up for the style, precise and covering structure of thought and usage of analogies (which are both entertaining and hitting the bull-eye).
The only bit that takes it from 5 stars super-book is the length of the text. Not too many readers would be patient to go through. I understand that author's mission was to walk the reader through the whole argument and build the castle brick by brick. That is all fine, but sometimes the comments on how bad the actual environment is get repeated and obsolete.
You can slap the actual operational setting into the face at the start very hard with some bolder statements and then promise to answer why the slap was actually well deserved in the text.
And oh yes you can prove the slap with the text in this book!!!
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