The audio edition of this Shingo Prize-winning bestseller provides critical insights and approaches to make any lean transformation an ongoing success. It tells you how to implement a sustainable, successful transformation by developing a culture that has your stakeholders throughout the organizational chart involved and invested in the outcome. It teaches you how to successfully navigate the politics in cross-functional process improvement projects, and to engage executives in ways that are personally meaningful to them. If you are a leader at any level in an organization undergoing or considering a lean transformation, this is where you should start and finish...and start again.

New in the third edition:

Contains new chapter on engaging executives in lean initiatives Includes 21 new case studies Presents new examples from the healthcare and process industries Includes additional gemba worksheets for learning and teaching lean Provides expanded coverage of lean applications in complex cross functional value stream process improvement projects Produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont.

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