Lean thinking, banish waste and create wealth in your corporation

By Allard Droste. 2007

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Subfields: Management Information Systems

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Building State Capability: Evidence, Analysis, Action (2017, methodology): “Iteration like this is similar to what some call the “try, learn, adapt”method used by some leanmanagement gurus (e.g. Radnor andWalley 2008;Womack and Jones 2010).”
Trends and approaches in lean healthcare (2009, background): “lean thinking is a well-researched theme and a wide range of publications about it is available (see Womack and Jones (1996)”
A new value stream mapping approach for complex production systems (2006, background): “Next, wasteful steps have to be eliminated, and flow can be introduced in the remaining ‘value-added’ processes (Womak and Jones 1996).”
A systematic review of Lean Six Sigma for the manufacturing industry (2015, background): “Lean focussed on elimination of non-value added activities and waste (or “muda”) in industry (Womack and Jones, 2003; Naslund, 2008).”
Best practices in business process redesign: an overview and qualitative evaluation of successful redesign heuristics (2005, background): “Several well-known management philosophies exist that can guide the overall course of a reengineering project, such as Total Cycle Time Compression [12,13], the Lean Enterprise approach [14] and Constraints Management [15,16].”
Towards Lean Production in Industry 4.0 (2017, background): “Following Womack and Jones’s “lean leap process” [1] there is a need to identify a change agent to create a new lean organization.”
Supply chain management and the circular economy: towards the circular supply chain (2018, positive): “One of the most significant developments in supply chain strategy has been the adoption of lean supply chains (Womack and Jones, 2003; 2005; Hines et al., 2004).”
Lean thinking in healthcare: a realist review of the literature (2010, background): “The term ‘lean thinking’ is based on the production philosophy which evolved at Toyota (Toyota Production System (TPS)).(4) 5 TPS is based on a set of (technical) practices that focus on maximising value for the customer.”
What are the Implications for Global Value Chains When the Market Shifts from the North to the South (2010, background): “A direct consequence of this search for low-cost flexibility was a transition in production organisation, from “just-in-case” mass-production to “just-in-time” lean production (Kaplinsky, 1994; Womack and Jones, 1996).”