ABSTRACT

Detailing the role of senior management in achieving a successful transformation to organizational excellence, Simple Excellence: Organizing and Aligning the Management Team in a Lean Transformation charts a course of simplification through the complexity often associated with managing performance improvement initiatives. It spells out the roles of

chapter 1|8 pages

A Different Way of Managing

chapter |4 pages

Section I. Thinking Differently

chapter 2|6 pages

The Mom-and-Pop Theory of Management

chapter 3|8 pages

It’s All about Value

chapter 4|6 pages

The High Cost of Poor Cost Accounting

chapter 5|6 pages

Can We Find a Few Righteous People?

chapter 6|6 pages

People

chapter 7|6 pages

Channels and Chains

chapter 8|6 pages

You Gotta Go with the Flow

chapter |4 pages

Section II. Managing Differently

chapter 9|6 pages

Getting Sales and Marketing into the Game

chapter 10|10 pages

Value-Stream Structures

chapter 11|8 pages

Simple Accounting

chapter 12|4 pages

The Roadmap from Chain to Channel

chapter 13|6 pages

Scheduling the Factory

chapter 14|4 pages

Purchasing

chapter 15|8 pages

Quality Management

chapter 16|6 pages

Sales, Operations, and Financial Planning

chapter 17|10 pages

Pricing to Win

chapter 18|4 pages

Capital Investment

chapter 19|8 pages

Performance Metrics

chapter 20|4 pages

Wrapping It Up