A Factory of One: Applying Lean Principles to Banish Waste and Improve Your Pers

Description: A Factory of One by Daniel Markovitz Most business readers have heard of the Lean principles developed for factories--a set of tools and ideas that have enabled companies to dramatically boost quality by reducing waste and errors--producing more while using less. Yet until now, few have recognized how relevant these powerful ideas are to individuals and their daily work. Every person at a desk, drafting table, workstation, or operating table must (like a factory) deal with the challenge of reducing the waste that creeps into their work. The same Lean principles that have improved efficiencies on the factory floor can be just as powerful--in fact, far more so--in helping individuals boost personal performance. A Factory of One: Applying Lean Principles to Banish Waste and Improve Your Personal Performance describes how you can foster a new mindset and improve your performance by applying Lean methods to your work. It translates powerful Lean tools such as visual management, flow, pull, 5S, and kaizen to your daily work, revealing how they can help to improve efficiency, reduce waste, and link you ever more closely to customer value.This practice will help you develop better self-awareness, more disciplined problem-solving skills, and the ability to self-correct errors. This book not only provides the tools, but also teaches you how to find the root causes underlying your inefficiencies so you can eliminate them permanently. It will enable you to immediately improve personal productivity while developing the skills needed for continuous improvement. It includes real-world examples that illustrate how these principles have been successfully applied across a range of industries. Providing the perfect mix of what-to-do with why-to-do it, the text details a step-by-step approach to applying Lean principles to your work. Listen to what Daniel Markovitz has to say about his new book, A Factory of One. Part One -- Part Two View the authors website at FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Daniel Markovitz is president of TimeBack Management, a consulting firm that radically improves individuals and team performances by identifying and eliminating root cause impediments to productivity. Table of Contents Introduction. 55: The Waste of Looking For Flow. Visual Management. Whats Your Problem? Pursuing Perfection. Organizational Cultures as a Barrier to the Application of Personal Lean. Conclusion. Review Dan Markovitz brings a thoughtful and supremely practical perspective to the fundamental scarcity faced by us all: time. His approach blends conceptual frameworks and concrete specifics--a powerful and useful combination--to reduce the noise and clutter in our lives and work. Markovitz can help us all to be more effective! --Jim Collins, author of Good to Great and co-author of Built to Last and Great by Choice Review Quote Dan Markovitz brings a thoughtful and supremely practical perspective to the fundamental scarcity faced by us all: time. His approach blends conceptual frameworks and concrete specificse"a powerful and useful combinatione"to reduce the noise and clutter in our lives and work. Markovitz can help us all to be more effective! e"Jim Collins, author of Good to Great and co-author of Built to Last and Great by Choice No matter what your role is in your company, or whether youre an independent consultant or even unemployed, you will love Dan Markovitzs new book, A Factory of One. This gem will improve even the most efficient persons work life in powerful ways. The introduction alone got me motivated to adopt those practices that he writes and arent yet part of my standard work.... Its short, sweet, and to the point. Youre never left wanting more, but you never wish the author would get on with it. ...relates powerful Lean manufacturing tools such as visual management, flow, pull, 5S, and kaizen to daily work, revealing how they improve efficiency, reduce waste, and link the individual worker ever more closely to customer value. This practice helps business professionals develop greater self-awareness, more disciplined problem-solving skills, and a heightened ability to self-correct errors.Read Dans book--and then apply the tips he gives. e"Karen Martin, Principal, Karen Martin & Associates; andkeynote speaker, ASQ Lean and Six Sigma Conference2012 Details ISBN1439859930 Author Daniel Markovitz ISBN-10 1439859930 ISBN-13 9781439859933 Media Book Short Title FACTORY OF 1 Pages 177 Language English Affiliation President, TimeBack Management Imprint Productivity Press Subtitle Applying Lean Principles to Banish Waste and Improve Your Personal Performance Country of Publication United States Year 2011 Format Paperback AU Release Date 2011-12-13 NZ Release Date 2011-12-13 US Release Date 2011-12-13 Place of Publication Portland UK Release Date 2011-12-13 Publication Date 2011-12-13 Publisher Taylor & Francis Inc Alternative 9780367480110 DEWEY 362.11068 Illustrations 3 Tables, black and white; 50 Illustrations, black and white Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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