This book provides a practical and user-friendly approach to successfully transform an organization into a lean organization throughout the business value chain. The author describes comprehensively how lean management principles enable organizations to concentrate on value-adding activities and processes to achieve a long-term and sustainable competitive advantage. The book shows how lean management principles are ultimately applied in industries and explores the concepts of Kaizen and Lean Management thoroughly. Kaizen and Lean Management are innovative and modern concepts that help organizations gain a competitive advantage. Kaizen is the permanent improvement in small steps, while Lean Management is a set of principles focusing on customer satisfaction. The foundation of these two concepts is grounded in the principle of eliminating waste and concentrating on value added processes for which the customers are willing to pay for. Through this, organizations will become more efficient throughout the value chain including internal functions, partners and suppliers, and will achieve a long-term competitive advantage.

Contents:

• Lean Management and Kaizen


• Lean Management in Japan


• Lean Policy Deployment — Strategic and Cultural Transformation


• Lean and Learning Organization


• Lean Leadership — Empowerment


• Waste and Value-added


• Agility and Lean Management as Success Factors


• Lean Digitization and AI Roadmap


• Lean Strategy Recommendations — Creating a Competitive Advantage


• Lean Production System


• Lean Concept of Gemba, Genbutsu and Genjitsu


• Lean Audits, Audits and Quality Management Systems (QMS)


• Realities (Mixed, Augmented and Virtual Realities) in Lean Management


• Lean Throughout the Value Chain — Keiretsu


• Lean Innovation — Kaikaku, Kaizen, and Innovation


• Smart and Digital Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)


• Smart and Lean Factory


• Lean Management Trends

Readership: Undergraduate, graduates, MBA students, managers and experts across the value chain who would like to learn how to transform an organization into a lean organization through value-adding activities.

Key Features:

• Uniqueness in providing lean principles for the successful Transformation into a Lean Organization


• Lean Transformation can be successfully done with wealth of Lean Principles and practical examples


• Ideal Book for a wide Target Group: Practitioners in Operations, Quality, Procurement, Logistics, SCM, Finance, IT or HR


• Wide Market for Promotion: Practitioners, Industry, Associations, Universities, Freelancers