Lean Simplified Author:Jay Arthur If you could be 10 times faster without working any harder, would you? What would your customer be willing to pay for that kind of performance? Every non-lean business process takes 10-20 times longer than necessary. How is that possible? Easy. The people are busy, but the product is idle over 90% of the total lead time. You have to stop ... more »watching at your people and start watching your product or service. Lean Simplified will show you, step-by-step, how to identify and eliminate the non-value added delay from your processes. It's so simple that most people won't believe it until they see it. In a world that worships complexity, lean thinking seems too simple. Yet that's it's power. Lean Simplified will take you through the essence of lean. Topics covered include: The Power Laws of Speed, The Origins of Lean, You Already Understand Lean, Creating Value, Voice of the Customer, Speed Bumps?Seven Kinds of Waste, The Antidote to Waste, Pull vs Push, Redesigning for One Piece Flow, Spaghetti Diagrams, Cells vs Silos, Mapping the Value Stream, Identify Non-Value Added Work, Standardized Work, Lean Problem Solving, What To Do?, Next Steps, Glossary.« less