Beyond lean production : emphasizing speed and innovation to beat the competition

 Content: Introduction   Phase 1 Holding Actions  Introduction  Highlights of Key Items  Holding Action First  Tool 1: Continuous Flow Manufacturing  Tool 2: High-Velocity Working Capital  Tool 3: Process Utilization: Total Team Game Plan  Tool 4: Pull Systems    Push Your Production Forecast out the Door and Pull in Customer Satisfaction  Tool 5: Root Cause Analysis  Tool 6: Single-Minute Exchange of Dies  Tool 7: Strategic Business Units    An Old Idea Updated Makes Sense: Saves People, Space, and Overhead    Important Points    Conclusion  Tool 8: Zero-Based Process Mapping    Ten Steps to Process Mapping  Tool 9: Strategic Kanbans  Tool 10: Accelerated Return on Kaizen (ARK)    Necessity Is the Mother of Invention    Summary  Tool 11: Supply Chain Management  Tool 12: Inventory Turns Control    A Items    B Items   C Items Tool 13: Mall Theory  Summary for Phase 1: Holding Actions  Phase 2 The Business Command Center Introduction to the Business Command Center   Bold Breakthrough that Will Make You Rethink Your Leadership The Business Command Center   What Is a Business Command Center?   Implementing the Business Command Center   Key Points of the Circulatory Management Chart   Special Points   Circulatory Management   Business Command Center: Leadership   How Do You Organize Control of the Command Center?   Summary What Are the Benefits of Having a Business Command Center? Future Possibilities   Field Sales Organization   Distribution Centers Closing Thoughts Further Information and Homework Advanced Value Stream Mapping Accounting: The Dictators of Corporations or Forgotten Priests? What Should Its Role Be? U.S. Product Engineering: Is It a Misdirected Missile as It Is Now Organized? Industrial Engineering: The Forgotten Function?  Index