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Creating Lean Corporations: Reengineering from the Bottom Up to Eliminate Waste
Author: Jeffrey Morgan
Product Code: 3241
ISBN: 1-56327-324-1
Publisher: Productivity Press
Published: 2005
Pages: 272
Binding: Hardback
Dimensions: 6 1/4" X 9 1/4" X 3/4"
Illustrated: Yes
Pages Description: charts/index
Price: US $40.00
Many companies applying lean use a top-down approach - a person or small group defines the business process in general terms and progressively expands it into more detailed elements. This method fails when the person or small group defining the process lacks the detailed knowledge of the tasks involved to sequence them correctly. Creating Lean Corporations, by Jeffrey Morgan, however, utilizes a bottom-up approach in which the employees who perform the tasks are empowered to create and manage their own portions of the business process. Each task is defined using a task model that indicates the input-output relationships between tasks -- it dictates the sequence that the tasks should be performed within the business process. This approach is essential for creating and improving business processes that are large and complex but still efficient.

The author presents three concepts in applying lean principles to an organization:

(1) Hierarchies for managing large, complex systems and processes -- A template for all lean organizations is presented that allows functional (horizontal) and process-oriented (vertical) groups to be integrated into a single organizational hierarchy where command-and-control is clear and direct.

(2) The use of process models to define the organization's business processes -- A standard method of process modeling that allows business processes to be represented and managed as hierarchies. The benefit of this approach is that process management is implemented in a hierarchical fashion where the level of detail increases as you move down the levels in the hierarchy.

(3) A lean, bottom-up approach to business process reengineering - this works much better than traditional top-down approaches on larger, more complex business processes. This lean approach was successfully applied at a major automotive manufacturing company and was awarded the Charles F. "Boss" Kettering Award as one of the most important technological innovations in 2000.

This book is for business process managers (especially lean leaders) who seek to reengineer their business processes using lean principles.

Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I: Getting an Overview of Lean Corporations
Chapter 1: Understanding the Lean Philosophy

Part II: Understanding the Nuts and Bolts of Lean Corporations
Chapter 2: Representing Corporations with a Business Process Model
Chapter 3: Creating and Using Hierarchies
Chapter 4: Decoupling Systems and Processes
Chapter 5: Requirement Roll-Down Using the Design Six Sigma Approach

Part III: Making Your Business Processes Lean
Chapter 6: Discovering Your Business Processes
Chapter 7: Reengineering Your Business Processes
Chapter 8: Implementing New Business Processes
Chapter 9: The Lean Corporation

Part IV: Looking at Examples of Lean Business Processes
Chapter 10: An Example of Discovering Your Business Processes
Chapter 11: An Example of Reengineering Your Business Processes
Chapter 12: An Example of Implementing New Business Processes

Reviews

Review GM Newsline, General Motors Corporation - April 27, 2005
"By reducing redundant efforts and keeping tasks on schedule, [Morgan's] system has resulted in a 25 to 30 percent improvement in Powertrain's analysis productivity."

Review By: William A. Levinson, Principal Of Levinson Productivity Systems P.C., and author of Henry Ford's Lean Vision. - May 5, 2005
"Jeffrey Morgan's excellent book, Creating Lean Corporations -- Reengineering from the Bottom Up to Eliminate Waste, stresses the all-important but too-often-overlooked systems perspective of business processes as sets of interrelated activities."

Review Quality Progress, May 2006 Issue - May 1, 2006
"This book is a fresh, nontraditional approach to using lean, borrowing techniques from other fields. I would recommend it to any organization starting to implement lean or one that needs to rejuvenate its current lean system."

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