The Going Lean Fieldbook: A Practical Guide to Lean Transformation and Sustainable Success

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		The Going Lean Fieldbook: A Practical Guide to Lean Transformation and Sustainable Success
		The Going Lean Fieldbook: A Practical Guide to Lean Transformation and Sustainable Success

In Going Lean, author Stephen A. Ruffa introduced the groundbreaking principles of Lean Dynamics, revealing how leading companies go beyond chasing the most visible outcomes of lean to address the disconnects that cause operational waste to accumulate. Illustrated by compelling cases and clear examples, The Going Lean Fieldbook provides a logical structure and practical advice for applying lean principles throughout the organization. Useful as a stand-alone implementation guide and as a training resource, the book maps out a set path toward reaching a series of critical transformation levels, detailing the activities and the hazards that can derail the journey at each point along the way. Readers will learn how to promote stability, consistency, and innovation by first conducting a “dynamic value assessment” and attaining the buy-in that is critical to making business improvements work. Based on lessons of real-life firms from different industries that have successfully implemented lean methods, this is an in-the-trenches manual for anyone who wants to energize their organization.

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In a world where we are inundated by consultants, `belts', `simplistic' lean tools and recipes - which compete for precious resources necessary for the basic job of running the operation, it is refreshing someone has done the research with real world companies and offered the option to chart a better course. Given the path many organizations have taken until now, it is little wonder how so many lean efforts today have `become what they beheld' and fallen short of the performance dangled in front of lean recipe book readers and victims of self-perpetuating consulting programs.

This quick-read book sets the record straight on what seems to be confounding so many lean efforts today. It offers tools for an organization to clearly determine whether they, and their competition, are lean or are not lean--by conducting the dynamic value assessment which the author clearly lays out in generous detail. The book offers the insight to course-correct an organization's lean journey by offering progressive levels of lean transformation--supported by real world examples. It also sets the stage for a lean program aimed at producing true value for customers and the organization by focusing on the dynamic business conditions rather than a single point solution thereby freeing organizations to get out of the business of 5S'ing the storage room, doing what amounts to Taylor-style work measurement passed off as `lean' and other well-intentioned, but wholly misguided attempts to achieve `lean by a thousand random projects'.

This book causes me to start thinking about where lean techniques need to take the organization rather than counting how many belts have been trained, charters written, band-aid fixes applied or token kanbans created. The book offers tips on applying the real-world grouping of products or services to dampen demand variation. Rather than reading books that seem to indicate we've `been there done that, became lean, and got the t-shirt' and are now ready to move `beyond' to the next improvement regime du jour, wouldn't make more sense to make an honest assessment of where we really stand, address what caused us to fall off course and perhaps adjust the path toward putting in place a solid foundation first? If you're looking for just another tool-based, lean recipe book, this field book is not for you. However, if you're tired of chasing the outcomes (waste) and would rather produce results that finally show in the bottom line by focusing on what causes the waste to accumulate in the first place, I wholeheartedly recommend this book.

On a personal level, I now find myself using the dynamic value assessment on annual reports from public companies as one of my investment tools before I consider investing in the company. So far the results have been encouraging, even during the recession.

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