Making Lean and Continuous Improvement Work : A Leaders Guide to Increasing Consistency and Getting Significantly More Done in Less Time

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- About this Publication -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Section 1 Introduction to Lean Thinking -- 1 Introducing the Problem and What's Not Working -- 1.1 What's Not Working -- 1.2 Fundamental Problems with the Day-to-Day Work -- 2 Introduction to Daily Management and Standardised Work -- 2.1 Standardised Work: The Best-Known Way to Do the Work -- 2.2 Origins and Influence -- 3 Key Principles of Lean (Work, Value and Waste) -- 3.1 The Work -- 3.2 Muda (Basic/General Waste) -- 3.3 What and How We Think about Problems and Improvement