Lean For Dummies^®, 2nd Edition

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Table of Contents

Introduction

About This Book

Conventions Used in This Book

Foolish Assumptions

How This Book Is Organized

Part I: Lean Basics

Part II: The Lean Culture

Part III: Understanding Flow and the Value Stream

Part IV: The Lean Toolbox

Part V: The Lean Enterprise

Part VI: The Part of Tens

Icons Used in This Book

Where to Go from Here

Part I: Lean Basics

Chapter 1: Defining Lean

What Is Lean?

The logic of Lean

Where is Lean?

What Lean is not

What makes Lean so special?

The Lean Pedigree

Toyoda and Ohno

The Toyota Production System

Lean and the World of Continuous Improvement

Six Sigma

Lean Six Sigma

Business Process Management (BPM)

Chapter 2: The Foundation and Language of Lean

Understanding Lean Basics

Creating the foundation

Learning from TPS

Building on the foundation

Waste Not, Want Not

Muda, muda, muda

All in the family

Part II: The Lean Culture

Chapter 3: Lean in the Organization: Principles, Behaviors, and Change

Assessing Organizational Culture

Will the real principles please stand up?

Getting the culture to the starting line

Measuring the gap

Changing the Organization

Going through the five phases of change

Hurdling roadblocks to success

Lean State of Mind

Chapter 4: Power to the People

The Human Side of Change

Change and the individual

Change and the team

Change and the managers

Chapter 5: Go Lean: Implementation Strategy, Startup, and Evolution

Preparing ...