Fog of Business - A Business Transformation Fable
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Written by Pascal Dennis, a leading Lean consultant, the story follows Tom Pappas and Rachel Armstrong, senior leaders at a desperate automotive company as they try to implement a Lean management system across an entire platform, the Chloe, a breakthrough "green" car. The future of the company is at stake. Can Tom and Rachel, supported by Andy Saito, a retired, reclusive Toyota executive, regain the trust and respect of the customer? Can a venerable but dying company implement Lean practices to every part of their business and learn a new, more effective way of managing?
Request permission to reuse content from this site. Added to Your Shopping Cart. Shows you how to use the Lean quality improvement method to fix not just a manufacturing system, but an entire company, including management, design, marketing, and supply chain Written by Pascal Dennis, author of four books on Lean practices and winner of the coveted Shingo Prize for outstanding research contributing to operational excellence Originally developed by Toyota, the Lean approach to quality improvement has gained a worldwide following and helped turn around enumerable struggling businesses.
His clients include Fortune companies like Kimberly- Clark, Lockheed Martin, and Magna International, as well as leading health care, construction, and financial services firms.
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Dennis learned the Toyota Business System in leadership positions at Toyota Cambridge, one of Toyota's best plants, and has worked with leading Toyota senseis in North America and Japan. Permissions Request permission to reuse content from this site. Table of contents Acknowledgments.
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Overview of Lean fundamentals. How Lean looks different in white-collar environments vs. Waste in health care and the restaurant business. The nature of big companies. Obstacles to transforming big companies. Role of the Shusa. Lean thinking—core mental models. Waste in business processes. Introduction to problem solving. Reflections on how to deepen and extend mental models. Start Free Trial No credit card required. View table of contents.
Book Description A powerful business fable that shows you how to spread Lean business practices to every function of your business Pascal Dennis is a Lean business learner and practitioner who has written four books on the subject of Lean business practices.
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Shows you how to use the Lean quality improvement method to fix not just a manufacturing system, but an entire company, including management, design, marketing, and supply chain Written by Pascal Dennis, author of four books on Lean practices and winner of the coveted Shingo Prize for outstanding research contributing to operational excellence Originally developed by Toyota, the Lean approach to quality improvement has gained a worldwide following and helped turn around enumerable struggling businesses If your business is treading water-or sinking in the waves-The Remedy will show you how to put Lean processes to work in every functional area for long-term business survival and success.
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But bear with me because the fable gets even wilder. And their plan cuts everything else the middle class and the poor depend on — Medicare, Medicaid, education, job-training, food stamps, Pell grants, child nutrition, even law enforcement. In one ending the private-equity manager candidate gets all his friends and everyone in the Wall Street casino and everyone in every executive suite of big corporations to contribute the largest wad of campaign money ever assembled — beyond your imagination. And because big lies told repeatedly start sounding like the truth, the citizens of the country begin to believe them, and they elect the private equity manager president.
Then he and his friends turn the country into a plutocracy which it was starting to become anyway.
In this one, the candidacy of the private equity manager and all the money he and his friends use to try to sell their lies has the opposite effect. It awakens the citizens of the country to what is happening to their economy and their democracy.