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The latest book from the researcher who led the team that coined “lean production”
explores why lean management is better than the currently dominant management
system.
Cambridge, Mass., March 14, 2011 -- In the ground-breaking book Gemba Walks,
leading business thinker Jim Womack shares a simple approach to business that will help
every business leader, policy maker, and anyone working
earnestly in any organization re-think how they go about
creating value, delivering service, and fulfilling purpose.
Value-Stream Walking
For the past ten years Womack has shared his thoughts and discoveries from these trips
through a monthly letter to the Lean Community. Now, in Gemba Walks, Womack has
selected and re-organized his key letters, as well as written new material providing
additional context.
His book contains a wealth of insights derived from the seemingly simple process of
visiting the gemba, asking questions, and showing respect. Gemba Walks shares:
Gemba Walks also shares Womack’s insights on topics ranging from the application of
specific lean tools, to the role of management in sustaining lean, to stories that will
challenge and encourage lean managers to press ahead in a new and important way of
working.
LEI Chairman and CEO John Shook notes, “Simply seeing—and communicating—lean
practice is but one way that Jim Womack has inspired others. Jim gives encouragement in
the real sense of the term: courage to try new things. Or to try old things in different
Gemba Walks
- By Jim Womack
- Published, March 14, 2011, Lean Enterprise Institute
- 348 pages
- ISBN: 978-1-934109-15-1
- $25.00 (paperback)
- $9.99 (e-book)
- Downloads, Q&A, ordering information: Gemba Walks
- Media: Chet Marchwinski, LEI, cmarchwinski@lean.org, 617-871-2930
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What is Lean?
The terms lean manufacturing, lean production, or lean management refer to a
complete business system based on the Toyota Business System, for organizing and
managing product development, operations, suppliers, customer relations, and the overall
enterprise.