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Lean thinking : banish waste and create wealth in your corporation

Title
Lean thinking : banish waste and create wealth in your corporation / James P. Womack and Daniel T. Jones.
Author
Womack, James P.
Publication
New York : Free Press, c2003.
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Additional Authors
Jones, Daniel T.
Description
396 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
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Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-375) and index.
Contents
Preface: from lean producation to lean enterprise -- Preface to the 2003 edition -- pt. 1. Lean principles -- Introduction: lean thinking versus muda -- Value -- The value stream -- Flow -- Pull -- Perfection -- pt. 2. From thinking to action: the lean leap -- The simple case -- A harder case -- The acid test -- Lean thinking versus German technik -- Mighty Toyota; tiny showa -- An action plan -- pt. 3. Lean enterprise -- A channel for the stream; a valley for the channel -- Dreaming about perfection -- pt. 4. Epilogue -- The steady advance of lean thinking -- Institutionalizing the revolution -- Afterword: the lean network -- Appendix: individuals and organizations who helped -- Glossary -- Notes. -- Index.
ISBN
  • 0743249275
  • 9780743249270
  • 0743231643
  • 9780743231640
LCCN
2003279577
OCLC
  • ocm51031471
  • SCSB-5595210
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries