Product Description

Winner of a 2006 Shingo Prize for Excellence in Manufacturing Research, Creating a Lean Culture helps lean leaders succeed in their personal batch-to-lean transformation. It provides a practical guide for implementing the missing links needed to sustain a lean implementation. The author, a renowned authority in this area provides critical guidance on developing and using the key elements of a lean management system, including: leader standard work, visual controls, daily accountability processes, maintaining a process focus, managing key HR issues, and much more. In addition, a questionnaire is included to help assess current management practices and monitor progress.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #65603 in Books
• Published on: 2005-05-13
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

From the Back Cover
Winner of a 2006 Shingo Prize for Excellence in Manufacturing Research, Creating a Lean Culture helps lean leaders succeed in their personal batch-to-lean transformation. It provides a practical guide for implementing the missing links needed to sustain a lean implementation. Mann provides critical guidance on developing and using the key elements of a lean management system.. In addition, a questionnaire is included to help assess current management practices and monitor progress.

Customer Reviews

Managing in a Lean Organisation
There are many books on the principles of lean, how to map value streams, 5S and so on. I am not aware of any other books devoted to how managers should behave in the lean environment. This book concentrates on the management "process" and recommends a number of key behaviours for lean leaders:
1) Leader standard work - i.e. standard tasks, notably walking the work area and reviewing performance on the "gemba", as a regular activity;
2) Visual controls - linking cell and value stream visual management with strategy;
3) Daily accountability meetings.

It is fairly straightforward to understand, and it is a short book (less than 200 pages) but it makes its points well and its clear focus highlights the importance of these simple activities and behaviours for managers to reinforce and sustain the lean philosophy. I particularly like the chapter on people and participation. The book could have an easier style but overall I recommend it for all managers moving towards lean. Without managers displaying the lean culture in their actions, the transformation will not hold.

The first book I read, that comprehensively explains Lean management
As a Lean consultant, I was looking for a book that clearly shows what Lean management is and what Lean managers do (and don't do). This is THE book on that subject you should read or let your customers read.

Great Overview of Lean Manufacturing principles
This is a great book for anyone looking to gain an insight into the principles behind lean manufacturing and how to actually go about creating a genuinely lean culture and environment. I've recently moved from a Commercial role into the manufacturing and supply side of our business, and this book has been a god-send in terms of helping me rapidly understand concepts like visual controls, tiered accountability, leader standard work etc. The first couple of chapters give a great overview, and then each of the following chapters has a useful summary. So there's as much or as little detail as you need.