Lean Transformations for Small and Medium Enterprises: Lessons Learned from Italian Businesses

✍ Scribed by Arnaldo Camuffo (Author)

Publisher: Productivity Press
Year: 2017
Leaves: 195
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Introduction

Chapter 1: Little Big Lean Champions

Chapter 2: Understanding the Italian Context

Chapter 3: How to Transform SMEs

Chapter 4: The Transformation Paths of Italian SMEs

Chapter 5: Leading Successful Lean Transformations in SMEs

Bibliography

Index

✦ Subjects

Economics, Finance, Business & Industry;Business, Management and Marketing;Engineering & Technology;Manufacturing Engineering;Production Research & Economics;Lean Manufacturing

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