Editorial Review:
Have you thought about using Lean in your business or organization, but are not really sure how to implement it? Or perhaps you’re already using Lean, but you need to get up to speed. Lean for Dummies will show you how to do more with less and create an enterprise that embraces change. In plain-English writing, this friendly guide explores the general overview of Lean, how flow and the value stream works, and the best ways to apply Lean to your enterprise. You will understand the philosophy of Lean and adopt it not as a routine, but a way of life. This highly informative book teaches you: - The foundation and language of Lean
- How to map the value stream and using it to your business’s advantage
- The philosophy of Kaizen
- Different tools to improve management, customer service, and flow and pull
- How to “Go Lean” within your business and across the industry
- Avoid common mistakes in implementation
- Seek out resources for assistance
This simple, continuous improvement approach that minimizes waste and adds customer value is changing organizations of all sizes all over the world. Lean for Dummies will show you to take charge and engage your enterprise in a Lean transformation!
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Customer Reviews
Average Customer Rating: 
Everything a starter book should do and then some... 2008-07-18
Excellent book for the money. Written in an easy to read style, the authors have covered just about every aspect of Lean from getting started to deployment. The good thing is that they have also touched on Lean in Customer Management, Services, Transactions, Healthcare and Government.
More value is added via the inclusion of Ten Best Practices, Ten Pitfalls to Avoid, and Ten Places to go for Help.
You will find the book a very handy reference any time you need to get clear on concepts, and also when you are looking for tips on "how to".
Enjoy the read, implement, and be profitable!
Lean for Dummies 2008-02-15
Great first primer on Lean - just what you would expect from the Dummies series. Got it used and it was a super value for the money. Great reference book and well as something to use to teach techniques to others.
Best Lean reference book out there  2008-01-25
Lean for Dummies is the best book for your Lean team to use as a reference if gives great information to go back to during kaizen events and value stream mapping events!.
Great book 2007-10-10
I enjoyed this book very much. It is a helpful overview of the fundamentals of Lean. It takes a couple of questionable liberties with some topics, but overall I highly recommend this book to be on any Lean practioners bookshelf. I also recommend Lean Six Sigma That Works: A Powerful Action Plan for Dramatically Improving Quality, Increasing Speed, And Reducing Waste Another good book to put along side of it.
managerial overview 2007-07-08
This is a useful introduction to the concepts, philosophy, and general approach of Lean. It does not scare people off with formulas, and has very few of them. This is ultimately a negative factor because more technical detail in the right place would have been a helpful bridge toward actually trying to do something with Lean. I think one of the things that comes through if you read the book a couple of times is that lean manufacturing would be very tough to fully adopt at most American companies because it is often at odds with traditional accounting measures and corporate organizational structures--- and one of the original lean priniciples is respect and long-term development for workers, another alien concept.
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