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BUY NOW THE LEAN PLAYBOOK!We poured our long years of experiences in this book, so you can benefit of them.
BUY NOW THE LEAN PLAYBOOK!Lean is no magic formula. It's a way of thinking and living.
BUY NOW THE LEAN PLAYBOOK!It’s a different take on showing you, from a practical point of view, what ‘Lean‘ is and how positively it can affect your company. Make a difference in your organization applying Lean Techniques, while having fun in the process with this book.
Lean is absolutely no rocket science. Most of the time it is about applying common sense in a structured manner and empowering people to reach all their potential. The Lean Playbook is a book that wants to prove this and demystify Lean to make it accesible to everyone!
This book is aimed at everyone, but with a special focus on consultants, Lean practitioners, operational team leaders and strategic heads of departments. It goes from making the first steps introducing Lean in an organization to leveraging a change of culture, optimizing value streams and facilitating innovation.
The book will help you to optimize your organization from the smallest team to the most important core processes in your value chain. You’ll get results, even if they are not revolutionary most of the time, which will bring significant improvements in cycle time, cost or product quality.
Well, most of the usual books are read from the beginning to the end, and we see the story unfold through the pages. The Lean Playbook has no story. At least not in the conventional way. It has lots of stories, and you don’t need to read them in any particular order. Therefore here you can see the book at a glance, and which chapters are relevant to any particular topic you want to learn about…
This being a book about Lean, it would be preposterous to not be Lean itself. So, besides accessing the chapters you need at any particular moment, you can also follow certain “tracks” that will guide you through your present goal or towards your set task.
The digital version of the Lean Playbook is finally available on your smartphones and tablets:
Lean is anchored in practice and this book is the ‘check’ in the ‘PDCA’ of the author’s practices: it visualizes them, enables others to apply them and enables a next ‘act’ to contribute to the further evolution of Lean practices. Read it, feed back and bring Lean to the next level!
Pierre Masai - CIO of Toyota Motor Europe
When you read about Lean for the first time, you usually say to yourself: it makes sense. When your read ‘The Lean Playbook’, it makes practical sense. And it gives you confidence to start your Lean journey....Which we did....And it works!
Alexandre Cabaud - Vice president of Global Business Services on Amadeus IT Group
The Lean Playbook is a good guide for professionals and organizations that want to start with the Lean culture and continuous enhancement. Easy to read, visual and intuitive, makes sense for beginners, but also for opening your mind to new gaming tools in your Lean projects. Mixing methodologies with people, it puts them in the center of change
Elisabeth Margarit - Strategic Consulting Director in Fujitsu Technology Solutions
The Lean Playbook uses a graphical style to present in a clear and concise way all the Lean techniques to the readers, becoming an indispensable guide when selecting the most appropriate one and understanding the different considerations when applying them. A leading book, essential for all those who have accepted the responsibility of continuously improving
Manuel Rodríguez - Director de sistemas en Agroseguro
It’s a perfect book for starters and intermediate Lean practitioners, with plenty of real life cases to guide you through your Lean Transformation. These are some of the topics covered in the book:
Lean is a term introduced by Daniel T. Jones and James P. Womack in the 90’s to describe Toyota’s way of thinking, working and behaving. It is based on the core principle that everything we do, develop or manufacture, has to maximize customer value. All other activities, actions or efforts put into the production that cannot be linked to what the customer perceives as valuable, are regarded as waste in Lean.
This means that our processes, methodologies and investments need to be reviewed to ensure that we are utilizing our resources in activities that are actually valuable for the customer. In our many engagements with organizations, we have seen that there is a great amount of time and money spent in producing documents, attending meetings, double checks or creating unnecessary bottlenecks.
The good news is that this book is here to help you out. Anyone can do Lean in their organization. At any level, from the smallest team to the most important core processes in your value chain. Results, even if they are not revolutionary most of the time, can bring significant improvements in cycle time, cost or product quality.