Beyond the Lean Revolution: Achieving Successful and Sustainable Enterprise Transformation - Hardcover

Nightingale, Deborah; Srinivasan, Jayakanth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0814417094 ISBN 13: 9780814417096

Publisher: AMACOM, 2011

Synopsis

Most organizations’ change efforts focus solely on eliminating waste in specific departments. While this “lean paradigm” is a good place to start, true enterprise transformation goes much further. Based on years of research and implementation, Beyond the Lean Revolution provides a road map for achieving the kind of future-oriented results that enhance value to stakeholders. Authors Deborah Nightingale and Jayakanth help readers achieve this by asking them to address the big-picture questions like, What are the strategic objectives? How is the enterprise performing against those objectives? How should it be? Who are the stakeholders and what do they value? You’ll then learn to strategically position your responses to move toward an audacious vision for the future--one where every cog in the complex enterprise system of people, processes, and is successful. Illuminating examples will teach you how to ensure senior leadership remains committed, how to assess your enterprise’s current state, and how to analyze stakeholder values so you can plan for future growth. From inception to implementation and beyond, this book provides a holistic framework for bridging the gap from mere change--to genuine transformation.

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Book Description:

Most organizations are engaged in change efforts—often focused solely on eliminating waste in specific departments or “silos.” That’s the “lean paradigm,” and while it’s a good place to start, enterprise transformation goes much further. It begins with the big picture: What are the strategic objectives? How is the enterprise performing against those objectives? How should it be? Who are the stakeholders and what do they value? Then it moves forward toward an audacious vision of the enterprise’s future.

Based on years of research and implementation, Beyond the Lean Revolution provides a roadmap for achieving sustainable, bottom-line results, delivering value to stakeholders, and reaching that future vision. Filled with illuminating examples, the book moves well beyond traditional lean thinking, showing readers how to:

Ensure senior leadership commitment · Assess the enterprise’s current state · Analyze stakeholder values · Develop a future vision · Create a plan for transformation From inception to implementation and beyond, this book provides a holistic framework for bridging the gap from mere change ... to genuine transformation.

From the Inside Flap:

When you envision what your enterprise could be in the future – if all your ambitions for transformation go as planned – what do you see? If you had a crystal ball, and could view an image of where your enterprise is actually heading, would you be satisfied?

Many organizations engaged in change efforts make the mistake of focusing solely on the elimination of waste in specific departments or “silos.” That’s the “lean paradigm”—but it doesn’t take you far enough. To create full-fledged, dynamic transformation, you have to see beyond lean. You have to understand how every part of your enterprise works together, and ensure that every single function and department operates in tandem to deliver value consistently to each and every stakeholder.

Beyond the Lean Revolution provides you with a step-by-step, comprehensive framework for adopting a holistic approach that will enable you to see the big picture, use the right data to determine where things currently stand, and know what you need to do to bridge the gap from where your organization is to where it needs to be in the future.

Based on years of research and implementation, and filled with illuminating examples, the book shows you how to:

· Create and implement an actionable trans­formation plan for your organization.

· Institutionalize enterprise thinking at every level to effect genuine and positive change.

· Identify important stakeholders and understand how they exchange value with your organization.

· Ensure the commitment of senior leadership.

· Determine clear roles and responsibilities for those within the enterprise and beyond in the extended enterprise.

Providing you with hands-on tools as well as a proven method and data-driven set of principles successfully instituted in a diverse range of industries, the book enables you to take a clear-headed view of the current state of your organization, as well as develop a vision of its ideal state for the future.

“Lean” may be a good place to start – but it’s not enough if you want to effect real and lasting change in your organization. Beyond the Lean Revolution gives you the guidance you need to create and achieve an audacious vision of a future that is truly transformational.

Deborah J. Nightingale is Professor of the Practice of Engineering Systems and Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT and Director of MIT’s Center for Technology, Policy, and Industrial Development. She is coauthor of Lean Enterprise Value.

Jayakanth Srinivasan is a Research Scientist at MIT’s Lean Advancement Initiative. He conducts research across multiple industrial sectors on performance measurement, innovation, and architecting, with a focus on enabling knowledge-intensive organizations to achieve sustainable enterprise transformation.

About this edition

• Publisher: AMACOM
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0814417094
• ISBN 13: 9780814417096
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256