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GETTING THE RIGHT THINGS DONE
For companies to be competitive, leaders must engage people at
all levels in order to focus their energy and enable them to apply
lean principles to everything they do. Strategy deployment, called
hoshin kanri by Toyota, has proven to be the most
effective process for meeting this ongoing challenge.
In his new book Getting the Right Things Done, author
and LEI faculty member Pascal Dennis outlines the nuts and bolts of
strategy deployment, answering two tough questions that ultimately
can make or break a company’s lean transformation:
- What kind of planning system is required to inspire
meaningful company-wide continuous improvement?
- How might we change existing mental models that do not
support a culture of continuous improvement?
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Getting the Right Things Done demonstrates how strategy
deployment can help leaders harness the full power of Lean.
Organization leaders at all levels and the management
teams who are responsible for strategy deployment will find this
book especially insightful. It tells the story of a fictional
(yet very real) midsized company, Atlas Industries that needs to
dramatically improve to compete with emerging rivals and meet new
customer demands.
Getting the Right Things Done chronicles the journey of
the company and its President/COO, an experienced lean leader who
was hired five years ago to steer Atlas in the right direction.
While Atlas had already applied some basic lean principles, it had
not really connected the people and business processes so that the
company could dramatically improve. Atlas’ challenge: “Something
was missing: a way of focusing and aligning the efforts of good
people, and a delivery system, something that would direct the
tools to the right places.” Enter strategy deployment.
The book is designed to provide readers with a framework for
understanding the key components of strategy deployment: agreeing
on the company’s “True North,” working within the PDCA cycle,
getting consensus through “catchball,” the deployment leader
concept and A3 thinking. It links action to theory and reminds us
that lean tools - like value-stream maps, kaizen events, and 5S -
are only the means to an end, not ends in themselves.
Like Freddy and Michael Ballé’s outstanding Lean novel, The
Gold Mine, the book tells a realistic, compelling story.
Like LEI’s very successful and practical workbook series, it also
takes a step-by-step instructional approach to the strategy
deployment process. It features a wealth of visual tools including
filled-in charts and graphs at every step in the process,
dashboards, detailed A3s and blank templates. Through this unique
combination, Getting the Right Things Done balances the
human and technical dimensions of making strategy deployment a
vital part of any company’s daily culture.
Author: Pascal Dennis
ISBN: 0976315262
Number of Pages: 232
List Price: $54.00 including GST
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