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by William H. Waddell

Author:	William H. Waddell
Language:	English
Publisher:	PCS Press (December 15, 2005)
Pages:	304 pages
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This happens in companies that might really want to do "lean" all the way, and simply can't figure out why it's not working.

This happens in companies that might really want to do "lean" all the way, and simply can't figure out why it's not working. Having had success with lean at one company, I took a new job as a Director of Continuous Improvement at my current company. Initially I was BAFFLED because there were obvious improvements that could be made that weren't

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Rebirth of American Industry : A Stiudy of Lean Management. by William H. Waddell and Norman Bodek. Lean Six Sigma is being touted as the 'saviour' of performance management in the financial services industry. However it may simply be a refuge for the Black Belts from the manufacturing sector. I've wondered in the past why the considerable investment in Lean Six Sigma by Ford, GM and Delphi didn't pay off - now I'm beginning to understand. This is an important book that applies to all industries not just manufacturing. What makes Lean work. Published by Thriftbooks. com User, 13 years ago.

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We have a certain amount of sadness as we read of the bankruptcy of Delphi Corporation, and the losses and downsizing of General Motors (GM) and Ford. GM and Ford were the world leaders in automobile manufacturing, the richest companies in the world. What happened? Could it have been prevented? And have they, and we, learned a very important lesson to not repeat the mistakes from past? The very purpose of this book is to examine what were the principle things that did go wrong and to give modern managers specific guidelines to think about today to be internationally competitive.

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Sagda

If you're in any business that is trying to apply lean, (also read Six Sigma, Operational Excellence etc.) then you should read this book!

In Rebirth of American Industry, Bill Waddell shows how lean efforts are undercut by the accounting structures in most companies. This happens in companies that might really want to do "lean" all the way, and simply can't figure out why it's not working. Having had success with lean at one company, I took a new job as a Director of Continuous Improvement at my current company. Initially I was BAFFLED because there were obvious improvements that could be made that weren't. When I read "Rebirth" it ALL MADE SENSE! This book is tremendous for understanding the power of accounting systems, metrics, and the management assumptions that exist in a company. If you work at a publicly traded company and have ever had to perform the "end of quarter shuffle," this book will make sense!

Read the book! If you're in a company with the wrong accounting practices, (as odds are that's the case) this book will make it all clear and give you suggestions on where to go. If you're in a company that has cash-flow based accounting, this book will give you the ammunition to explain the benefits to anyone who will listen. As a sidenote, a colleague who had just finished his MBA read this book at my urging. A week later he said to me glumly, "I learned more about how business really works from this book than my whole MBA." (I feel obligated to say that he's a smart guy and not a bad student!) The book is great. But perhaps it's not for everyone; just people who work in businesses. :)

p.s. If you buy the book, pay some copy place to spiral bind it! The binding is not super robust to begin with, and chances are you'll dog-ear or highlight so many pages it will come apart. Save yourself the trouble! Enjoy!

Haal

If you're trying to answer the question, "Why does Lean often just become the 'flavor of the month' in organizations," this book does a good job of explaining. Standard cost accounting creates metrics that can make Lean strategies look unprofitable. The authors do a great job of reviewing the history of Lean manufacturing in the U.S. and the world. In fact, they debunk a lot of myths out there about its origins.

The reason I didn't give it 5 stars, however, is that I wanted a more in-depth explanation of how Lean impacts the financials, that therefore leads to Lean not being adopted. The authors, instead, made generalities with a few financial figures, that, if I were to use for a presentation to top management, wouldn't be convincing enough. And in this way, they failed their readers.

Otherwise, a great book to read that, at points, I didn't want to put down. Would recommend as a primer, but not sufficient alone.

Agalas

Lean Six Sigma is being touted as the 'saviour' of performance management in the financial services industry. However it may simply be a refuge for the Black Belts from the manufacturing sector.

I've wondered in the past why the considerable investment in Lean Six Sigma by Ford, GM and Delphi didn't pay off - now I'm beginning to understand.

This is an important book that applies to all industries not just manufacturing.

Cherry The Countess

A few years ago, I was at a football game, when I asked my best friend, who is an industrial engineer "What is all of this 'Lean' stuff I hear about?" He spent the next few years talking at length through examples and slides and presentations and e-mails from Bill Waddell's blogs. They were nice, but I didn't really 'get it'. I am a design engineer and my views before hand were that I don't understand business and those business leaders and accounting gurus just think at a higher level than me.

Then my friend gave me his copy of this book. I figured I would probably never read it and give it back to him in a few months. I figured it was written for 'Industrial Engineer nerds' and would be above my head. One night, as I am about ready to go to bed, I pick it up and decide to look at chapter 1, so I can at least say I tried to read it. All I can say is WOW!!!! 3 chapters later, I look at the clock and decide I should go to bed, since it then way past my bedtime. I spent the next few days blowing through chapter after chapter (and staying up too late). The scales fell off of my eyes and suddenly I saw the absurdity of modern business thinking and the beauty of lean. Before, I thought Lean was something like the kanban cards I used to stock my kitchen (yes, my friend did teach me this) on a wider scale, but it is so much more.

After this book, Bill's blogs made perfect sense. I started spreading the word to those around me about the absurdity of overhead absorption, lowest landed piece costs, making machines run around the clock when you don't need that many parts, creating bogus factory efficiency numbers, building unwanted inventory at the end of the quarter, and other absurd practices I noticed around me. Not only did Bill teach me lean, I was able to explain it to others.

You can read reviews from lean manufacturing experts who read this book, but I hope you will take special notice when I tell you that I have ZERO background in manufacturing and was utterly clueless about all such things, and this book changed how I view manufacturing. It's not written for like-minded manufacturing gurus. It is written for all of us who just didn't get it.

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