The most powerful Lean Book you will ever own! View a video book summary at wcmfg.com/Book_info.htm For years, Industry Week magazine has reported that roughly 75% of companies using Lean as their business improvement activity have reported little, if any, progress. Since Lean can solve any business problem, why are 75% of organizations using Lean showing such little progress, when properly implemented Lean activities can show significant progress in the first year? The answer is that business organizations are not closing the loop between their business strategies, plans, budgets, and Lean as the system to make the plans a reality. Our new step-by-step workbook will show you how to close the loop between your business plans and your lean activities. In our book, we discuss and walk through the following 10 Steps to Policy Deployment using Lean as a System: 1. Establish a Mission and Guiding Principles 2. Develop Business Goals 3. Brainstorm Opportunities to Achieve Goals 4. Define parameters to value opportunities 5. Establish Weighting Requirements, Rate Opportunities, &amp; Prioritize 6. Conduct a Reality Check 7. Develop Lean Implementation Plan 8. Develop Bowling Chart 9. Countermeasures 10. Conducting Business Reviews. Our easy to follow workbook also contains sample spreadsheets on CD that will allow you to customize our 10 Step process to your unique organization. This groundbreaking new book is the key to using Lean as a system and will ensure that you are using Lean to its maximum potential.

Policy Deployment & Lean Implementation Planning: 10 Step Roadmap to Successful Policy Deployment Using Lean as a System

Larry Rubrich

Vince Fayad

WCM Associates LLC

This book is of tremendous value to any construction professional that has been exposed to Lean, to any companies that have already undertaken a Lean Journey, or to those that are contemplating doing so. It is not a magic tome that provides all of the answers; nor is it a full instruction manual detailing how your Lean journey will unfold. Its purpose is not intended as such. What this book does is provide insight into what lies ahead of any company that is ready to commit to the transformation into a World-Class organization. Larry brings to the table a unique perspective; one that is pervasive in this book. While his background is in manufacturing, his thoughts and astute observations regarding Lean construction are beyond the usual mulling and instruction. What sets this book apart why it is truly unique is its wholly organizational focus. It brings three concepts together (Policy Deployment, Core Lean Tools, and Lean Construction Tools) into one all encompassing culture. As Larry points out clearly in these pages, few organizations that merely implement lean tools realize significant or sustained improvements. In order for a company to truly reinvent itself as a world-class organization, Lean must permeate and grow from within its very culture. While Lean operating principles have been gathering the attention of American businesses since the 1980 s, construction has yet to truly embrace the idea. Why has construction not yet come to realize that the way we deliver projects is an old, fragmented process? Is Lean the next evolution of the industry? Will Lean Construction, despite the current economic pressures to commoditize the delivery, come to thrive? Based on what Larry shares within these pages, we as constructors/buyers of construction services can't afford not to take a serious look.

An Introduction to Lean Construction: Applying Lean to Construction Organizations and Processes

Lean Manufacturing is the only technique available today that can provide organizations with a business operating system that will allow them to fully utilize all of their available resources, both people and equipment, and to reduce costs while maximizing customer satisfaction. 
 A successful and sustainable Lean implementation in any organization requires that the four components of Lean be implemented throughout the organization. 
 Lean Concepts: eliminating waste to improve the flow of information and material. Anytime the flow stops, we have waste. When flow improves we have more efficient processes and shorter lead-times. 
 Lean Planning: Lean Planning is the linking of the organization s annual and strategic goals with the Lean activities that will achieve those goals. This linking is an activity called Policy/Company Goal Deployment. Lean should never be a random activity! 
 Lean Culture: the creation of a positive work environment and foundation that the rest of the Lean components can be built upon. The four elements of a Lean Culture are: 
 - Leadership - Communication - Empowerment - Teamwork 
 Lean Tools: the techniques used to eliminate the identified waste that is preventing us from achieving the goals we identified in Lean Planning. 
 World Class business results cannot be achieved without the organization-wide Lean thinking that comes from deploying Lean as the business operating system throughout an organization. 
 Uniquely written for both machine operators and managers, the 3rd Edition of Implementing World Class Manufacturing will show you how to implement the four components of Lean and help make your business the best at what you do now and in the future.

Implementing World Class Manufacturing - Third Edition: The Complete Guide Including Policy Deployment and Developing a Lean Culture.

Mattie Watson

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Policy Deployment & Lean Implementation Planning: 10 Step Roadmap to Successful Policy Deployment Using Lean as a System

An Introduction to Lean Construction: Applying Lean to Construction Organizations and Processes

Implementing World Class Manufacturing - Third Edition: The Complete Guide Including Policy Deployment and Developing a Lean Culture.