Leading the Lean Enterprise Transformation 2nd Edition

This book brings out elements of Lean Leadership and Lean Culture that you don't find in "How To" books. I was at The HON Company and working as a Quality Engineer/Road Warrior during the time The HON Company made their transformation, led by George Koenigsaecker. From what I read about The HON Company, his writing does not deal in theory or speculation but in experience and the history of having made this journey multiple times. I highly recommend this book, have read it twice, highlighted portions, written in the margins and will read it multiple times in the future.

My professional career is coaching and mentoring organizations on "Best Practices" and over the many years I have been focusing on enterprise wide Lean Thinking/Continuous improvement. I found unfortunately that many busibess owners and executives look at this journey as a project to delegate downward. It almost appears that they feel threatened by the concept. This well written results story from an exectutive perspective is one of the best I've read. I recommend it to all the executives that are searching for how their organizations can compete in a globalized world. Doug Maki

Very interesting book, there are several cases well documented about the lean journey experience, I strongly recommend this book if you want to be engage with Lean and six sigma philosophy. Read it!

This book is the one I have been looking for. It doesn't get bogged down in describing what Lean is; this book describes how to implement in an existing non-lean company that is financial focused and hard-nosed. Koenigsaecher is no academic; this is the story of multiple successful lean transformations with real multi-national companies and multiple locations. The only book of its kind.

Highly recommend this book to your lean library. Teaches the value of Kaizen and the appendix reviews a number of case studies to back the concepts the book teaches.

If you think your company is doing Lean, read this book, take a step back, and ask yourself again if you are. It's not a Lean training guide, but is a great review of how to ensure that the foundation for success exists.

nice book

Straight forward summary of the author's experiences. I prefer other books, but this one does address what is currently popular with LEAN Management.

Excelente libro, me agregó valor al conocimiento de el pensamiento Lean.

Keine neuen Erkenntnisse

Great book to implement Lean into an organization. The best learning is always by doing. Value stream transformation is a journey that requires compromise from leaders and motivated teams.

Describe los beneficios del Lean en las compañías de manera financiera