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Lean tools and techniques are helping companies across the globe to address competitiveness within their businesses, building the capability of their people to identify issues and improve their operations. Lean is shorthand for focusing on effectiveness and efficiency across all areas of a business. This NuBook provides the basics of Lean to help you on your journey to achieve world-class levels of competitiveness. It uses the basics of benchmarking to help you understand your true competitive position as you take the first steps on the Lean journey.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherOak Tree Press
Release dateMay 1, 2011
ISBN9781846210969
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Richard Keegan
Richard Keegan is the manager of the Competitiveness Department at Enterprise Ireland, and has written extensively on the area of Lean/Best Practice/World Class Business. He was awarded a doctorate for his research into applying Lean/World Class ideas with Irish companies.
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Becoming Lean - Richard Keegan
Published by NuBooks, an imprint of Oak Tree Press, 19 Rutland Street, Cork, Ireland www.oaktreepress.com
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© 2011 Richard Keegan.
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1: INTRODUCTION
Lean tools and techniques are helping companies across the globe to address competitiveness within their businesses, building the capability of their people to identify issues and improve their operations.
Lean is shorthand for focusing on effectiveness and efficiency across all areas of a business. Lean works most effectively where it has become the way of doing business, where it is a fundamental part of the business strategy and not just ‘using some tools’.
Lean was defined by the Americans, based on what they saw in the Toyota Production System. The Americans were trying to understand what the Japanese were doing that made them so competitive. They tried to identify the trick, the magic wand that allowed the Japanese to produce and sell products at high quality and at reasonable prices. The truth is that there is NO magic wand. Lean is based on an absolutely focused and relentless pursuit of efficiency and effectiveness. Successful Lean implementation also requires the engagement of people to realise the potential of a business.
This NuBook provides the basics of Lean to help you on your journey to achieve world-class levels of competitiveness. It uses the basics of benchmarking to help you understand your true competitive position as you take the first steps on the Lean journey.
2: WHAT IS LEAN?
Lean is about being effective and efficient. It is about doing what is right and doing it as well as can be done. It starts from the point of knowing what a customer wants, values and needs. It then works to find the best way to deliver that to the customer.
Lean is focused on providing customers
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