TY - BOOK AU - Drew, John AU - Mccallum Blair AU - Roggenhofer, Stefan TI - Journey to lean : : making operational change stick SN - 9780230226715 U1 - 658.5 PY - 2008/// CY - New Delhi PB - Palgrave Macmillan KW - Prductivity KW - Organizational change. . KW - Industrial management KW - Quality function deployment. N1 - Ch. 1. The challenge of lean -- pt. I. The lean landscape -- Ch. 2. The essence of lean -- Ch. 3. The lean operating system -- Ch. 4. Management infrastructure -- Ch. 5. Mindsets and behaviours -- pt. II. The lean journey -- Ch. 6. Deciding to embark -- Ch. 7. Exploring the opportunity -- Ch. 8. Engaging the leadership -- Ch. 9. Demonstrating the change -- Ch. 10. Embedding the change -- App. Types of loss, symptoms, possible causes, key tools and techniques N2 - In the current climate attention has refocused on lean production. While books have looked at the principles of lean production and techniques, this book from McKinsey & Company, the world's most influential management consultancy, provides a unique approach, which is holistic in nature and argues that lean must be central to the strategy and mindset of the company or organization. It will be the most comprehensive book on the tangible and intangible aspects of lean transformation with a complete overview of how organizations should embark upon this arising from the cutting edge work done by the authors with leading companies worldwide ER -