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Written by international writer, David Parmenter. This working guide will transform the lives of you and your team through the adoption of practices your peers have used successfully who come from top performing teams around the world.

This working guide covers:

• Techniques to adopt from the lean movement
• Background to the lean movement
• Lean is about eliminating the eight wastes.
• Toyota’s 14 principles and their relevance.
• Create continuous process flow to bring problems to the surface.
• Level out the workload (Heijunka)
• Build a culture of stopping to fix problems, to get quality right the first time.
• Use visual control so no problems are hidden.
• Respect your extended network of partners and suppliers by challenging them and helping them improve.
• Use only reliable, thoroughly tested technology that serves your people and processes
• Go and see for yourself to thoroughly understand the situation.
• Make decisions slowly by consensus, thoroughly considering all options and then implement the decisions rapidly.
• Become a learning organisation through relentless reflection and continuous improvement
• Gemba Kaizen.
• The 5Ss technique.
• Jim Collins’ five step technique.
• Peter Drucker’s “approach problems with your ignorance”
• Use the five whys rule to get to the heart of the problem.
• Post-it re-engineering of inefficient routines.

This working guide will help you answer queries and guide you to a best practice solution in this area. These working guides are sent as a PDF copy, normally within 48 hours of payment.