Description
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Ask a hundred people what ‘lean’ means and you will get as many different answers. Lean means different things to many people. The following answers are some of the most common answers to the question ‘What is lean?’
- Cultural behaviour
- A methodology
- Part of continuous improvement
- Waste reduction
- Method of operation
- Strategic focus
- Mindset
- Way of thinking
- Practitioner guidelines
- Academic philosophy
- The Toyota production system
- Company values
This book is about lean thinking. Its purpose is about providing the reader with a number of lean thinking ideas and low cost best practices to get their business into the franchise market safely with the minimum expenditure possible.
