Secure A Copy Creating A Lean Culture: Tools To Sustain Lean Conversions Fashioned By David Mann Issued In Audio Book

book on starting and sustaining a lean culture, Lots of details and information on how to implement visual management an sustain it, I think it covered the main topics but I found it tedious in most chapters due to having to translate all the manufacturing examples to health care.
I didn't want to work that hard to extract new knowledge, Great ideas, especially adopting the culture is how it works for you, Don't change your business to work for LEAN, change it to LEAN and let LEAN work for you, Great! Creating a Lean Culture is the premiere workbook on how to implement lean within your organization, The author gives you step by step directions and detailed case studies to show what success and failure look like and what you can learn from success and failure.
Each chapter ends with a basic quiz that allows you to access the current status of your organization,

Toyota is mentioned a couple times in this book however, this isn't about copying what Toyota it does, This book is based on research conducted by the author primarily in organizations other than Toyota or the automotive industry,

This is my second time reading the book, and each time I get so much out of it, The audio narrator and the topic were excellent however, the PDF is almost a requirement if you are going to listen to this audiobook.
It is so rich with ideas that are better conveyed visually that a reader could become lost without this PDF,

In general an excellent read and will be part of my annual reread books This book was practical, jampacked with content, and easy to follow.
I may upgrade toif I have success implanting some of the techniques I learned, This book does a great job outlining some steps that can help to drive a Lean culture, This book serves as a sort of howto for creating and sustaining lean culture, If you are looking for a book that introduces lean concepts and gives general insights, I would recommend looking elsewhere, If you are looking to actually create and implement a lean culture at your workplace today, I would highly recommend this book as a key resource.
As for myself, I'm somewhere in the middle, hence thestar review, This is an excellent book but must be read in proper order with other books of similar topics,
I recommend the following order so far:
"The Goal" Goldratt
"It's Not Luck" Goldratt
"Lean Thinking" Womack and
"Leading Change"
"Reengineering the Corporation" Hammer and Champy
"Creating a Lean Culture" Mann By far, the best book I read on sustaining and creating a Lean environment.
The book contains a multitude of case studies and practical examples, Most books get caught up in theory, not this one! If you want to get "hands on" with Lean this is the book to read : Required reading at work.
I wouldn't have read otherwise, It did provide insight into the new direction that we as a facility was heading,SHINGO PRIZE for EXCELLENCE in MANUFACTURING RESEARCH Lean production has been proven unbeatable in organizing production operations, yet the majority of attempts to implement lean end in disappointing results.
The critical factor so often overlooked is that lean implementation requires daytoday, hourbyhour management practices and skills that leaders in conventional batchandqueue environments are neither familiar nor comfortable with.


Creating a Lean Culture helps lean leaders succeed in their personal batchtolean transformation, It provides a practical guide to 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, 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, Ao propor que a cultura de organização é, na verdade, produto do seu sistema de gerenciamento, o autor propõe que a implementação e sustentação da cultura Lean se dá através da mudança no sistema de gerenciamento de uma empresa.
Para tal, devese construir

um sistema de gerenciamento pautado em:

Trabalho padronizado para líderes
Controles visuais
Processo de responsabilização diária e
Disciplina da liderança.
Good, use it as a guideline and expand upon it, This is a highly specialized book, so unless you are interested in Lean Processes, this book is not for you, I am reading this book for work and to be quite frank, I feel like I shouldn't be reading this book yet.
Even the author himself states that first you need to implement Lean Processes, then you need to focus on how to manage those processes with the tools in this book.
I am just starting to learn about Lean and I feel like I am missing a lot since I don't really have that base knowledge of Lean Processes yet.

Still, there is lots to learn, I am enjoying the book and I do feel like it is very valuable for work, I am definitely going to reread it though just as soon as I feel like I understand Lean Processes, Good template for attempting to create change in an organization, All that being said, I have observed firsthand the reactions of those who don't want to apply themselves or resist the influence of doing the right thing.
I look forward to therd edition that is on the way to me as I do feel this method is a catalyst for sustained success.
Nice book addressing shop floor application troubles of Lean

Focus on shop floor strengthening of Lean and process thinking is very credible
Easy read

Verbal diarrhoea, the author could have used more visual communication to his own book that he has been recommending Sectionof the book loses focus amp Sectionof the book which is its key take away, could have had more realtime picture examples
the "what" and "how" part are covered very well.
Elaboration on "why" part could have been better

Quotes
take care of the process, the process will take care of you
Vacation paradox work gets done much more efficient than regular times
successful Lean conversion depends on the leaders.
Leaders should teach, inspect for reinforce, and hold all accountable for management practices consistent with the principles of lean
no action without data and no data without action
leaders are expected to work around problems to quickly meet a schedule.
When it is successfully in place, the problem is considered solved for now, Tomorrow is another day when it repeats, By comparison, Lean leaders ate expected to ask why, identify the root cause and develop solutions to fix root causes sustainably
culture in a work organization is the sum of its individual's work habits.
Its the way we do things around here, Over time, it becomes invisible as every one know the who, what, when, how, . . and allows us to operate on autopilot,
lean does not solve problems, it exposes problems, The flow interruptors


Notes:
Thegears to drive lean practice to the shopfloor
, Leader standard work the daily checklist for leaders on all tiers to ensure focus on the critical few steps to control the process few esp.
Presence on shop floor and problem solving
, Visual controls Making all aspects visual to identify improvements, drive competition and making system transparent
, Daily accountability process the three tier approach of process control by problem solving from team leader, supervisor amp value stream manager
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Leadership discipline: Gemba walks the aspect of Leaders and management having the whole process accountable by going to the place, observing and talking to people

Additional info on application in nonmanufacturing sectors, managing suggestion box system, Labor shift amp station planning, Checklists to evaluate maturity of implementation of Lean standards It's the standard on creating a Lean Management System.
useful. accessible. worthy of a further edition, Librarian Note: There is than one author in the Goodreads database with this name, Microsoft MVP.