Getting the Right Things Done
A Leader’s Guide to Planning and Execution
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Recommendation
Efforts to adopt Lean principles often fall short because managers focus too much on choosing a strategy and not enough on executing it. Pascal Dennis offers a program for strategy deployment, drawn from Toyota’s hoshin kanri system, that outlines the steps for designing, implementing, monitoring and adjusting a strategy. The plan is straightforward, although the reader must navigate a thicket of four-part, six-step and seven-stage tools and absorb such concepts as the action tree, the A3 storyboard and the ladder of abstraction. Fortunately, Dennis presents all this through the easy-to-follow story of a successful strategy deployment at the fictitious Atlas Industries.
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About the Author
Faculty member of the Lean Enterprise Institute Pascal Dennis is an engineer, author, consultant and winner of the ASQ Golden Quill, a 2006 Shingo Prize and the OSH Award of Excellence.
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