Description
Lean Transformations for Small and Medium Enterprises
Lessons Learned from Italian Businesses
Author: Camuffo Arnaldo
Language: EnglishSubjects for Lean Transformations for Small and Medium Enterprises:
Keywords
Lean Transformation; SME Owner; Lean thinking; Lean Transformation Process; total quality managment; hoshin kanri; SME Leader; case studies; Business Processes; Gemba Walks; EBITDA Margin; FIFO Lane; Toyota Production System; Genchi Genbutsu; Local Industrial Clusters; Takt Time; Lean Movement; Management Standard Work; Italian SMEs; Emilia Romagna; GMA; Lean Knowledge; Financial Performance Improvements; EBITDA Ratio; Lean Tools; Italian Industrial System; Company Wide Quality Control
Publication date: 06-2017
· 15.6x23.4 cm · Hardback
Publication date: 11-2016
· 15.6x23.4 cm · Paperback
Description
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Lean Transformations for Small and Medium Enterprises: Lessons Learned from Italian Businesses summarizes two decades of research, teaching, and practice on lean thinking.
Based on quantitative analysis of 100 cases of Lean transformations and 20 in-depth case studies of successfully transformed SMEs, it explains how to undertake lean transformations that lead to operational and financial performance improvement, and uses the Lean Transformation Framework --conceptualized by John Shook at the Lean Enterprise Institute?as a practical approach to design and de-risk the transformation process.
SMEs? leaders wishing to undertake and sustain a lean transformation must:
- Make a serious and lasting commitment to transform, avoiding the temptation to change course of action;
- Choose accurately the value streams that require improvement as defined by strategy deployment;
- Build capabilities to sustain the transformation;
- Lead by example by going to gemba and creating a culture of respect for people that goes beyond the visible devices and artifacts of Lean tools.