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Getting the Right Things Done
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Getting the Right Things Done

A Leader’s Guide to Planning and Execution

Lean Enterprise Institute, 2006 más...


Editorial Rating

9

Qualities

  • Comprehensive
  • Applicable
  • Concrete Examples

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.

Take-Aways

  • A strategy-deployment plan helps a business establish Lean management principles and sustain them over the long term.
  • Before making a plan, assess the current situation.
  • Strategy deployment is a six-step process incorporating the “Plan-Do-Check-Adjust” cycle.

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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