Focusing on the successful implementation of Lean management in a multinational company, this award-winning workbook details a six-year journey of sustainable change in both manufacturing and commercial operations. It highlights essential yet often elusive elements of Lean practices alongside visible process management features. Designed as a practical guide, it offers actionable advice for practitioners, ensuring that Lean principles are deeply integrated into organizations for lasting performance improvements.
The human resource is the most vital ingredient in any organisation. Yet, the involvement of the workforce is often overlooked and they are denied the necessary support, encouragement and respect which are essential to improve their performance levels and in turn, the productivity that concerns management. "Breaking the Mould" is a Collection of stories that relate to different situations in the workplace from the South American jungle to the northern North Sea where certain changes in attitudes and relationships had broken the mould. It is all about the empowerment of people-giving them the power to change their world and treating them as a valuable asset. This book highlights the performance improvements which occur when people take ownership and how one can easily create such conditions in any work situation, be it on the shop floor or in the office. Its anecdotal style and lack of jargon will appeal to a wide audience, not only to management institutions and educational establishments, but also to the common man who has been shouted at and always told what to do.
Things that are good for the planet are also good for business. Numerous studies from the likes of the Economist Intelligence Unit, Harvard, MIT Sloan, and others indicate that organizations that commit to goals of zero waste, zero harmful emissions, and zero use of nonrenewable resources clearly outperform their competition. Like lean thinking, greening your business is not just a 'nice to have'; at least not anymore. It is now a key economic driver for many forward looking firms. This book is packed with case studies and examples that illustrate how leading firms use lean and green as simultaneous sources of inspiration in various sectors of industry - from automotive and retail to textile and brewing. Take Toyota as an example, the holy grail of economic efficiency for decades. This book, shows that Toyota tops the green chart too, describing Toyota's notion of Monozukuri: sustainable manufacturing. Creating a Lean and Green Business System: Techniques for Improving Profits and Sustainability offers opportunities for innovation that can simultaneously reduce dependence on natural resources and enhance global prosperity
A study of English neighbourhoods based on a rich variety of hitherto largely
unstudied sources, engages with the interaction of social ideals and everyday
experience in Tudor and early Stuart neighbourhoods with emphasis on popular
religion, notions of gender, locality and belonging between 1500 and 1640.
