Staying Lean - Thriving, Not Just Surviving [Paperback]

Staying Lean: Thriving not just surviving Peter Hines, Pauline Found, Gary Griffiths & Richard Harrison Staying Lean: Thriving, not just surviving has just been awarded a Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence 2009, in the Research and Professional Publication category. The Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence is named for Japanese industrial engineer Shigeo Shingo who distinguished himself as one of the world s leading experts in improving manufacturing processes. The Shingo Prize, established in 1988, recognizes organizations and research that is consistent with its mission and model. Staying Lean was developed as part of the SUCCESS (SUstainably Channelled Change at Every Scale and Situation) project that was funded by the Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC) grant to Cardiff University Innovative Manufacturing Research centre (CUIMRC). The book draws on the story of a multi-national company that has successfully implemented Lean in its manufacturing and commercial areas to help turnaround the organisation s financial performance. The story is based around the Lean Iceberg Model of sustainable change and addresses the often invisible, and hard to copy, enabling elements of successful Lean Management in manufacturing organisations: Strategy and Alignment, Leadership, Behaviour and Engagement as well as the more visible features: Process Management and the application of Lean Technology, Value Stream Tools and Techniques. Staying Lean is designed to be used as a practical workbook to guide practitioners along their own Lean journey so that Lean becomes embedded in the organisation and sustains the performance improvements over the long-term; often enabling them to outperform low-cost economies and thus compete in a global marketplace.

Professor Peter Hines holds the Chair in Supply Chain Management a Cardiff University's Lean Enterprise Research Centre and is the Chairman of SA Partners. He followed a successful career in distribution and manufacturing industry before joining Cardiff Business School in 1992 and his work on extending the boundaries of lean thinking has received international widespread attention. He has written over 50 books and papers, including Creating World Class Suppliers (Pitman, 1994). He is an editorial adviser for 5 journals including the International Journal of Logistics: Research & Applications which he started and is a skilled lean mentor and coach especially within multi-site operations, strategy deployment and Supply Chain Management. Dr Pauline Found holds a B.A., B.Sc., MBA and PhD. She is employed as a Senior Research Associate at Cardiff University. She has been with the Cardiff University Innovative Manufacturing Research Centre (CUIMRC) since it formed in 2004 where she worked with the SUCCESS project on sustainable manufacturing change from 2004-2007. Since October 2007 she has been working in the Lean Enterprise Research Centre (LERC). She has published several papers on Lean and organisational change. Prior to joining Cardiff University Pauline had a successful career in industry for 15 years working for major UK FTSE 100 organisations gaining management experience in purchasing, operations planning, quality and HRM. Gary Griffiths has an Industrial Engineering background with over 20 years hands-on experience in continuous improvement and Lean Thinking. Combining practice with research throughout his career, Gary graduated to Master Degree level in 2000 from the University of Wales. A full time consultant with S A Partners for 5 years with proven experience in designing multi-site integrated Continuous Improvement Programmes for a range of Corporate Clients, in Order Creation, Order Fulfilment and Innovation Business Processes. His specialist areas of expertise include, Lean Diagnostics and Implementation, Lean Maturity Roadmap Design, Equipment Effectiveness, Strategy Deployment, and Lean Leadership. Gary has worked closely with Professor Peter Hines of the Lean Enterprise Research Centre, on a piece of collaborative research that resulted in a joint publication entitled Staying Lean . Richard Harrison joined the Mars confectionery group straight from school and, following completion of a business degree and two year post graduate sponsorship at the London Business School, gained broad experience working at board level in sales & marketing roles with premium branded products across a range of different industries. He joined S A Partners in 2002 with the remit to take Lean off the shop floor and apply the philosophy within the sales & marketing environment. He is a specialist in Customer Value and Sales Performance Improvement and brings a wealth of practical experience to clients from across a wide variety of global market sectors and industries including, Consumer Products, Retail, Engineering, Manufacturing, Food, Packaging, Software, Aerospace, Automotive, Medical, Pharmaceutical, Insurance, Finance, Public Sector and Legal. Within S A Partners he heads up the product group development for Customer Value and Sales. He has co-authored Staying Lean with Professor Peter Hines of Cardiff University. Richard was appointed to the position of Managing Consultant in S A Partners on 1st July 07.