Lean thinking - Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation

Expanded, updated and more relevant than ever, this bestselling business classic describes a business system for the 21st century that supersedes Ford's mass production, Sloan's financial control and Welch's strategic dominance. Following Toyota, it combines operational execution with value-based strategies to produce sustained growth. In contrast with the crash and burn performance of companies trumpeted by business gurus in the 1990s, the firms profiled in Lean Thinking — from tiny Lantech to mid-sized Wiremold to niche producer Porche to gigantic Pratt & Whitney — have prospered, largely unnoticed, along a steady upward path through the market turbulence of the nineties. Meanwhile Toyota has set its sights on the leadership of the global motor industry.