Given that the greatest risk factor on any project is manpower costs, problems resulting in delays, rework, or overtime will lower profits through increased labor costs. Most of these process-generated costs are fully preventable. An in-depth exploration of the application of Lean initiatives in...

Find your purpose: commit to change -- Identify opportunity: measure and analyze the process -- Drive value: streamline the process -- Control the process: make the work and data visible -- Transform: organize the team -- Engage! set team goals -- Implement change: lead the transition -- Stand...

Cover -- Title page -- CIP data -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue - A Lean Parable: Efficiency is the Best Form of Job Security! -- Introduction: Lean Culture and Engaged Team Performance -- A SHORT HISTORY OF PROCESS AND PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT --...

1. Who's eating your lunch? -- 2. Myths and common pitfalls -- 3. Individual behaviors that enable -- 4. Team roles and responsibility -- 5. Management governance : process in support of agile and lean readiness -- 6. Organizational institutionalization -- 7. Lean manufacturing : a case in study.

Purpose: Employee participation is considered a fundamental pillar to implement continuous improvement. Based on this consideration, this article presents an action research case study in a large food manufacturer where employee participation is implemented. The experience has a two-fold...