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| Author | : Linda M. Orr |
| Publisher | : Apress |
| Total Pages | : 348 |
| Release | : 2014-04-03 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1430260890 |
Redundant employees. Storerooms full of extra stock "in case we need it." Marketing money sprayed in all directions in the vain hope it will create customers. Duplicate IT systems. HR policies that fatten the corporate waistline rather than keeping it trim. Budgeting exercises that result in "more of the same, plus 2%." Nearly every corner of most established businesses harbors waste—wasted money, time, effort, or all three. As any runner can tell you, a lean body runs faster and wins races. The same goes when it comes to the competitive race all businesses engage in. Lean companies innovate faster, market more effectively, operate more smoothly, and achieve greater profitability. Eliminating Waste in Business: Run Lean, Boost Profitability highlights common ways that businesses across all industries waste money without realizing it. Taking an analytical, hands-on view, this book challenges universally accepted business practices—some even taught in business schools—by pointing out how these practices drive waste, and then showing how to eliminate it and reap the benefits. In eight meaty chapters, operations expert Dave J. Orr, and sales and marketing authority Linda M. Orr, tackle some of the obvious and easy-to-get-rid-of organizational fat and time wasters (meetings, anyone?) that for whatever reason many managers are blind to. They'll also show you how to employ lean six sigma and other methods to improve operational processes, inventory management, and more. But this book goes beyond these things and covers such areas as marketing and advertising spending, headcount and personnel administration, finance, and the many categories that make up what is in many companies a bloated monster: overhead. With an emphasis on employing technology and smart management to drive down costs, this book will take a comprehensive view of the broad spectrum of money and time wasters and show you how to get rid of them once and for all.
| Author | : James P. Womack |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 365 |
| Release | : 2013-09-26 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1471111008 |
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.
| Author | : Elizabeth Feinberg |
| Publisher | : DIANE Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 91 |
| Release | : 1998-12 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 0788174843 |
Offers step-by-step instructions designed to assist medium & large businesses, governments, & other organizations establish waste reduction programs. An overview on developing & implementing a waste reduction program is followed by a series of worksheets designed to help the waste reduction team conduct a waste assessment & devise a program tailored for its company' specific goals. Appendices include waste reduction ideas, regional EPA & State waste reduction program contacts, a glossary, volume-to-weight conversion tables, & a listing of common recyclable materials.
| Author | : Marc Jensen |
| Publisher | : CRC Press |
| Total Pages | : 131 |
| Release | : 2017-07-27 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1040083978 |
The fact that a process produces garbage is a testament to design inefficiency, and this book explains how to use the nature of that garbage to pinpoint and eliminate those inefficiencies. Lean Waste Stream: Reducing Material Use and Garbage Using Lean Principles supplies an unprecedented look at how to address business waste in a manner that will improve your organization‘s environmental and financial performance.Tackling the problem of business garbage from a Lean perspective, the book maintains a focus on how to minimize garbage in ways that cut costs. It considers the problem of garbage in terms of transportation, inventory, and labor costs with an effort to connect reductions in garbage production at all stages with lower operating costs and improved productivity.Explaining how to use garbage analysis as a tool to identify the problems in process flow that produced the garbage, this book describes how to look downstream for options to reuse, repurpose, and recycle garbage to minimize landfill impact and costs. The text includes practical exercises with step-by-step instructions, as well as real-world examples that illustrate how specific wastes have been dealt with profitably by various organizations.
| Author | : Jeffrey Morgan |
| Publisher | : CRC Press |
| Total Pages | : 292 |
| Release | : 2005-07-15 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9781563273247 |
Many companies applying lean use a top-down approach - a person or small group defines the business process in general terms and progressively expands it into more detailed elements. This method fails when the person or small group defining the process lacks the detailed knowledge of the tasks involved to sequence them correctly. Creating Lean Corporations, by Jeffrey Morgan, however, utilizes a bottom-up approach in which the employees who perform the tasks are empowered to create and manage their own portions of the business process. Each task is defined using a task model that indicates the input-output relationships between tasks -- it dictates the sequence that the tasks should be performed within the business process. This approach is essential for creating and improving business processes that are large and complex but still efficient. The author presents three concepts in applying lean principles to an organization: (1) Hierarchies for managing large, complex systems and processes -- A template for all lean organizations is presented that allows functional (horizontal) and process-oriented (vertical) groups to be integrated into a single organizational hierarchy where command-and-control is clear and direct. (2) The use of process models to define the organization's business processes -- A standard method of process modeling that allows business processes to be represented and managed as hierarchies. The benefit of this approach is that process management is implemented in a hierarchical fashion where the level of detail increases as you move down the levels in the hierarchy. (3) A lean, bottom-up approach to business process reengineering - this works much better than traditional top-down approaches on larger, more complex business processes. This lean approach was successfully applied at a major automotive manufacturing company and was awarded the Charles F. "Boss" Kettering Award as one of the most important technological innovations in 2000. This book is for business process managers (especially lean leaders) who seek to reengineer their business processes using lean principles.
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 106 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Environmental management |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Derek SM Oh |
| Publisher | : Partridge Publishing Singapore |
| Total Pages | : 148 |
| Release | : 2016-01-29 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 1482863812 |
Where do you go to when tough times affect both your business and lifestyle? Is there a quick fix to the issues that youre facing now? This book will unravel the secrets to fixing your problems, be it your business or lifestyle. The basic Lean principles have long been in existence for several decades and have been given pseudo names as derivatives of the original meaning of Lean management. All it does is to declutter your issues and let you see the root cause in a transparent manner so that it stays fixed once it is fixed. The methodology used is clearly explained in various chapters- explained in the simplest form that you can comprehend and absorb the gist of what is the issue, how do I go about fixing it, making sure it stays fixed and expect great turnaround results. Many examples have been described so that you can associate to a few or to at least one and use that as a model or case study. Each chapter can be read as standalone topics as it provides actionable knowledge for a reader that knows nothing of Lean principles. You will be absorbed to read this book over and over again as it comes alive for new situations related to your business or work life. The more you read the principles and associate them to the cases mentioned, the more you will uncover the secrets and the spirit of Lean concepts which were originally described by great Lean Gurus over the decades. You will be amazed when the situations turnaround for the betterespecially needed during tougher times like this and you need Leaner measures to combat them.
| Author | : Lauren Carter |
| Publisher | : Plum |
| Total Pages | : 288 |
| Release | : 2019-02-26 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1760785059 |
"This book provides the ingredients to create a new normal." Costa Georgiadis, host of Gardening Australia Tackle our ever-growing waste problem. A Family Guide to Waste-free Living gives you all the information, advice, budget-friendly recipes and projects you'll need to start reducing waste in your life. Lauren and Oberon Carter make it it simple and sustainable for families to eliminate waste in the home, at work, at school and out in the world. This is a practical and inspiring resource for anyone wanting to live more sustainably. Inside you'll find: - Simple activities for the whole family. - Instructions on building waste-free kits for around the house and out and about. - A plan for creating change by advocating to government and business. - Tackle our ever-growing waste problem with all the information, advice, budget-friendly recipes and projects you'll need to start reducing waste in your life. This is a specially formatted fixed layout ebook that retains the look and feel of the print book.
| Author | : Daniel Markovitz |
| Publisher | : CRC Press |
| Total Pages | : 181 |
| Release | : 2011-12-13 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1439859930 |
Most business readers have heard of the Lean principles developed for factories—a set of tools and ideas that have enabled companies to dramatically boost quality by reducing waste and errors—producing more while using less. Yet until now, few have recognized how relevant these powerful ideas are to individuals and their daily work. Every person at a desk, drafting table, workstation, or operating table must (like a factory) deal with the challenge of reducing the waste that creeps into their work. The same Lean principles that have improved efficiencies on the factory floor can be just as powerful—in fact, far more so—in helping individuals boost personal performance. Winner of a 2013 Shingo Research and Professional Publication Award! A Factory of One: Applying Lean Principles to Banish Waste and Improve Your Personal Performance describes how you can foster a new mindset and improve your performance by applying Lean methods to your work. It translates powerful Lean tools such as visual management, flow, pull, 5S, and kaizen to your daily work, revealing how they can help to improve efficiency, reduce waste, and link you ever more closely to customer value. This practice will help you develop better self-awareness, more disciplined problem-solving skills, and the ability to self-correct errors. This book not only provides the tools, but also teaches you how to find the root causes underlying your inefficiencies so you can eliminate them permanently. It will enable you to immediately improve personal productivity while developing the skills needed for continuous improvement. It includes real-world examples that illustrate how these principles have been successfully applied across a range of industries. Providing the perfect mix of what-to-do with why-to-do it, the text details a step-by-step approach to applying Lean principles to your work. Listen to what Daniel Markovitz has to say about his new book, A Factory of One. Part One — Part Two View the book's website at www.afactoryofone.com. View the author’s website at www.timebackmanagement.com.
| Author | : Rhonda Sherman |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 6 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : Waste minimization |
| ISBN | : |
