Front Cover; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1: Total Business Thinking Required; Chapter 2: How Lean Fails; Chapter 3: Top 10 Contributors to Failure; Chapter 4: Achieving Alignment; Chapter 5: What the Board Should Know about Lean; Chapter 6: Using Your Lean Culture to Achieve the CEO's Goals; Chapter 7: As a Lean Practitioner, What Your CEO Wants You to Know; Chapter 8: Lean across the Organization; Chapter 9: Building Your Plan; Appendix: The Original Stocks in the S & P Index; About the Authors; Back Cover
Summary
The average tenure of a departing CEO has declined from approximately 10 years in 2000 to 8.1 years in 2012. Maintaining a customer-focused Lean strategy and continuous improvement culture can become a challenge when management changes often, unless it has become an institutionalized company-branded business management system for the company. Lean for the Long Term allows readers to benefit from the operating experience and research of the authors who have been deeply involved in leading Lean transformations that last in today's ever-changing business landscape. It presents a Lean management sy
