KAIZEN: HOW TO SUCCESSFULLY TRANSITION LEAN ORGANIZATION

This book provides a practical and user-friendly approach to successfully transform an organization into a lean organization throughout the business value chain. The author describes comprehensively how lean management principles enable organizations to concentrate on value-adding activities and processes to achieve a long-term and sustainable competitive advantage. The book shows how lean management principles are ultimately applied in industries and explores the concepts of Kaizen and Lean Management thoroughly. Kaizen and Lean Management are innovative and modern concepts that help organizations gain a competitive advantage. Kaizen is the permanent improvement in small steps, while Lean Management is a set of principles focusing on customer satisfaction. The foundation of these two concepts is grounded in the principle of eliminating waste and concentrating on value added processes for which the customers are willing to pay for. Through this, organizations will become more efficient throughout the value chain including internal functions, partners and suppliers, and will achieve a long-term competitive advantage.

Contents:
Lean Management and KaizenLean Management in JapanLean Policy Deployment — Strategic and Cultural TransformationLean and Learning OrganizationLean Leadership — EmpowermentWaste and Value-addedAgility and Lean Management as Success FactorsLean Digitization and AI RoadmapLean Strategy Recommendations — Creating a Competitive AdvantageLean Production SystemLean Concept of Gemba, Genbutsu and GenjitsuLean Audits, Audits and Quality Management Systems (QMS)Realities (Mixed, Augmented and Virtual Realities) in Lean ManagementLean Throughout the Value Chain — KeiretsuLean Innovation — Kaikaku, Kaizen, and InnovationSmart and Digital Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)Smart and Lean FactoryLean Management Trends
Readership: Undergraduate, graduates, MBA students, managers and experts across the value chain who would like to learn how to transform an organization into a lean organization through value-adding activities.

'Lean Management is more relevant today than ever before. It enables organizations to increase efficiency, adapt to market changes, foster innovation, increase employee engagement and develop sustainable business practices. Marc Helmold shows how this can be achieved — with a broad focus, yet practical for implementation.' - Torsten Laub Head of Hamburg Office, German Association for Quality – DGQ

'The book describes very well the basics of Kaizen and Lean Management, especially as it focuses on the need for a cultural change in order to successfully implement a sustainable change.' - Bernd Flashar Senior Vice President Quality – DEUTZ AG

'The books outlines the tools, maturity levels and guidelines that help organizations to become lean. Practical examples combined with applied lean concepts illustrate fundamental lean principles. It is a book for practitioners and academics who want to study and apply lean principles.' - Thomas Hsu Supply Chain Management Senior Consultant – PELEVEN AG

Key Features: Uniqueness in providing lean principles for the successful Transformation into a Lean Organization Lean Transformation can be successfully done with wealth of Lean Principles and practical examples Ideal Book for a wide Target Group: Practitioners in Operations, Quality, Procurement, Logistics, SCM, Finance, IT or HR Wide Market for Promotion: Practitioners, Industry, Associations, Universities, Freelancers