This Minibook is a brief guide for Green Belt during a Lean Six Sigma project management or for Kaizen Leader during a process improvement activity. Through both its theoretical concepts and practical examples it is a pocket book for a quick consultancy. Authors idea comes from companies needs...

Part One -- 1. What is wrong with the current continuous improvement (CI) practice? -- 2. What is continuous improvement, and what is not -- 3. Strategies of TPS/Lean implementation -- 4. The Toyota Way -- Part Two -- 5. Building a new framework -- 6. A new framework -- 7. Conclusion and...

Das Buch gibt einen Überblick über ausgewählte Forschungsfelder im Industrial-Management. Der Bogen reicht von der Geschäftsmodellinnovation über agile Produktion, vom Informationssystemdesign bis hin zur intelligenten, lernorientierten Instandhaltung. In der Techno-Ökonomie tritt die...

Chapter 1: Get into the Entrepreneurial Mindset -- Part 1: Five Lessons from Lean Startup Thinking -- Chapter 2: Start with the Customer in Mind -- Chapter 3: Define and Communicate Mission and Vision -- Chapter 4: Synthesize an Integrative Operating Model -- Chapter 5: Identify Metrics that...

This book is the first of two volumes presenting a business model to add value through Procurement. Including several case studies of successful implementation, it demonstrates how the increasing complexity of the business environment requires a significant intervention on the management of...

Einleitung -- Teil I: Basis -- 1. Inspiration: Neue Technik, neues Denken, neues Management -- 2. Keine Verschwendung -- 3. Validiertes Lernen -- Teil II: Technik -- 4. Smarte, vernetzte Produkte und Services -- 5. Lean IT -- Teil III: Management -- 6. Digitale Sicherheit -- 7. Digitale...

Soziale Interaktionsprozesse bei Gründerteams -- Prototyping -- Unterstützung sozialer Interaktionsprozesse durch Prototyping -- Empirische Methodik -- Empirische Ergebnisse -- Schlussfolgerungen und Ausblick.

Lean Organization for Excellence describes the right way to implement lean thinking inside both manufacturing and service industries. After explaining the origins of the concept and discussing 'wastes' and value added, the book aims to set out a precise path of action. To this end, the so-called...

Intelligence is wasted on problems that themselves have been caused by an excess of intelligence. Lean Brain Management strives toward uncompromising Lean Brain Quality. Lean Brain stands for consistent economization of intelligence in all realms of life: Intelligent systems will only be...

This book explains the implementation of just in time (JIT) production in an industrial context, while also highlighting the application of various, vital lean production tools. Shifting the trade-off between productivity and quality, the book discusses the preparation stages needed before...