Design for Operational Excellence: A Breakthrough Strategy for Business Growth (Business Books)
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| Rating | : | 4.74 (552 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0071768246 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-03-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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Grow your business endlessly.“Design for Operational Excellence is a blueprint for a joined up, end-to-end designed operation that makes Operational Excellence a reality. Duggan takes you step by step through the new principles of Operational Excellence:#1: Design Lean Value Streams #2: Make Lean Value Streams Flow #3: Make Flow Visual #4: Create Standard Work for Flow #5: Make Abnormal Flow Visual #6: Create Standard Work for Abnormal Flow #7: Have Employees in the Flow Improve the Flow #8: Perform Offense ActivitiesCase studies illustrate how companies that applied Duggan’s methods grew consistently over time by designing and implementing a lean flow of product to the customer. Instead, position your operation to provide customer solutions in changing markets, which will lead to profit and growth in even the most severe economic and market downturns.. But it doesn’t have to be this way.Why make operational improvement a perpetual process when you can make business growth a perpetual process?In this trailblazing book, Kevin Dugganauthor of Creating Mixed Model Value Streams and founder of the Institute for Operational Excellence and Duggan Associatestakes you beyond Lean and Six Sigma to
A sought after international speaker on Operational Excellence, Duggan has appeared on CNN Headline News and Fox Business Network as the expert in Lean Manufacturing. Duggan is the author of Creating Mixed Model Value Streams and the lead author of The Office That Grows Your Business: Achieving Operational Excellence in Your Business Processes. Kevin J. He lives in North Kingstown, RI.
A New Perspective for Lean: Linking Operational Excellence with Commercial Excellence The book "Design for Operational Excellence: A Breakthrough Strategy for Business Growth" looks at lean from a new perspective. Normally companies practice lean as an open-ended journey focusing on small but continual improvements. This approach is good but slow and requires strong leadership to make sure the gains are held and sustained. Moreover, there in no defined destination where the journey should lead to; lean is not tied up with business growth.Duggan has suggested that Operational Excellence is a well-defined destination. Operations could be designed to reach and maintain the status of excellence. This status of . Robert Hess said Operational Excellence Made - Well, Operational. I recommend this book to managers in companies of all sizes, but I believe it will be particularly useful for organizations and companies doing lots of things with relatively few staff.I bought the book because of my current work in community banking - defined as banks with $1 billion in assets and less. These banks typically need to manage a myriad of tasks related to operations and compliance, and many of their processes often get created on the fly and then become de facto standard work. Silos develop as they grow in size and processes and communications really suffer.I like this book because it echoes what we always st. Last piece of the Lean puzzle The bigger picture of the Operational Excellence (OE) jigsaw puzzle is now a whole lot clearer. Despite having many years experience in this area, from Manufacturing, Office and Design perspectives, I was more than a lttle shocked to find out from this book that I was still missing something extremely important. While the book is a combination of both the fundamental principles and details of the OE Design process, it is well worth your persistence in reading all of the way through to the end, with the 3 excellent case studies being the "icing on the OE cake". I suspect that my copy will see heavy use over the next year or
He lives in North Kingstown, RI.. About the AuthorKevin J. A sought after international speaker on Operational Excellence, Duggan has appeared on CNN Headline News and Fox Business Network as the expert in Lean Manufacturing. Duggan is the author of Creating Mixed Model Value Streams and the lead author of The Office That Grows Your Business: Achieving Operational Excellence in Your Business Processes