Flatlined : Why Lean Transformations Fail and What to Do about It.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Chapter 1: Why Companies Have Flatlined -- Lean Is Used as a Short-Term, Tactical Tool -- The Lean Initiative Isn't Connected to the Broader Strategy -- Functions Are Optimized for Lean, but the Enterprise Isn't -- Leadership Is Either Hands-off of Lean or Reluctant to Revisit Its Basics -- Chapter 2: The Solution in Five Steps -- Shift Your Lean Mindset for Sustainable Results -- Default to the Basics -- Align Your Lean Transformation with Strategy -- Make Lean an Enterprise Endeavor -- Use Lean Principles to Evolve Your Company's Culture -- Chapter 3: Step 1: Shift the Lean Mindset for Sustainable Results -- The Lean Trilogy -- The "We're Different" Mentality -- Lean as a Growth Vehicle -- The Six Sigma Hysteria -- Chapter 4: Step 2: Default to the Basics -- Heijunka Level Scheduling -- Standard Work -- Kaizen -- Just in Time -- Jidoka -- The SQDC Hierarchy -- Relate Back to Real Life -- Chapter 5: Step 3: Align Your Lean Transformation with Strategy -- The Strategy Deployment Process -- Benchmarking World Class -- Identifying "Breakthrough -- Chapter 6: Step 4: Make Lean an Enterprise Endeavor -- Enterprise Kaizen vs. Point Kaizen -- Value Stream Management -- Mura, Muri, and Muda -- Lean Accounting -- Chapter 7: Step 5: Use Lean Principles to Evolve Your Company's Culture -- Define Leadership's Role -- Deal with Naysayers -- Develop a Healthy Dissatisfaction with the Status Quo -- Delegate Problem-Solving -- Chapter 8: Conclusion -- No Silver Bullets -- Be Lean -- Don't Do Lean -- Call to Leadership -- Addendum: What You Must Have in Place for Your Lean Transformation -- What You Should Look for in a Lean Coach or Consultant -- Index.

This book draws on the author's experience as the original pioneer of the most successful Lean business system next to Toyota, as well as his progress over the past eighteen years in helping companies replicate what Danaher achieved. Mark knows you need an actionable approach to make rapid shifts, not theory.

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