Table of Contents

An Implementation Model for Lean and Green.- Lean and IT – Working Together? An Exploratory Study of the Potential Conflicts Between Lean Thinking and the Use of Information Technology in Organisations Today.- Lean Thinking and Organisational Learning: How Can They Facilitate Each Other?.- Flow Accounting: The Next Challenge for 21st Century Lean Businesses.- Changing an Organisation’s Culture with Systems Thinking – A case study from the Financial Services Industry.- Understanding Effective Problem Solving.- Completely Taktless! What Is Pull in the Context of the Process Industries?.- Internationalisation of Lean Manufacturing: The Influence of Environmental Conditions.- Lean Supply Chain Model and Application in an Italian Fashion Luxury Company.- Strategic Planning for Lean Production, Comparing Hoshin Kanri with Balanced Scorecard.- Lean Management and Product Innovation: A Critical Review.- Introducing a Value Improvement Model for Manufacturing (m-VIM).

About the Author

Andrea Chiarini is managing director at Chiarini & Associates, a European consulting firm that specializes in Business Management, and Visiting Professor at the University of Ferrara, Italy. He earned a PhD and a Master of Arts from Sheffield Hallam University, UK, and he also gained a Master’s Degree in Electronic Engineering and a Post-graduate Diploma in Business Administration from Bologna University, Italy. He is a Senior Member of the American Society for Quality.

Pauline Found is a Senior Lecturer in Lean Operations at the University of Buckingham and was formerly part of the Lean Enterprise Research Centre (LERC) at Cardiff University. She was educated at The Open University, Cardiff University and Bristol University. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Operations Management (FIOM) and a Member of the American Society of Quality (ASQ). She holds a PhD, MBA, BSc (Hons), BA and a Postgraduate Diploma in environmental management. She was President of the International POMS (Production and Operations Management Society) College of Behavior 2009–2011.

Nicholas Rich is a renowned academic and expert in the fields of productivity management and the application of lean enterprise methods. He has written several books and numerous papers concerning lean manufacturing, policy deployment, total productive maintenance, value stream management and sustaining lean improvements. He holds a number of non-executive directorships and maintains an Honorary Fellowship at Cardiff University (in recognition of his years of service to the college), an Honorary Professorship at Warwick Medical School and a Visiting Scholarship at the University of Bath.