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How the Best Companies
Apply Lean Manufacturing Principles to
Shatter Uncertainty, Drive Innovation,
and Maximize Profits

Going Lean is a groundbreaking book written by Shingo Prize-winning author, Stephen A. Ruffa, describing how corporations across a range of industries stand apart by applying the powerful principles and practices of lean dynamics, By following their lead, companies and institutions, large and small, can better adapt to the dynamic circumstances that have engulfed the business world today.

Going Lean clearly identifies the lessons that will let businesses across a wide range of industries regain their footing. A powerful read, this is no doubt Ruffa’s best book yet!

What critics are saying:

"In this extremely well-written book... useful resource for those interested in operations management, business policy, and related topics.”

– Choice

"With excellent timing... demonstrates how companies can use lean principles to help them steer through tough times."

– Houston Business Review

"Going Lean should be read by manufacturing executives and their staffs... shows how to introduce innovation during downturns, strive for perfection, and deliver excellent performance."

– Quality Progress

“Stephen Ruffa’s new book titled, Going Lean, is very timely. In this time of economic crisis when recession has plagued the world’s economic arena, Going Lean teaches us how to live and adapt with change. This book is a must read."

– Six Sigma

“...unique and important insights into entering and sustaining–forever–a journey of waste reduction and continuous improvement."

– Cutting Tool Engineering

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Coming Soon: The Going Lean Fieldbook!

A companion guide to the book that showed how organizations can become lean, innovative money machines...in good times and bad.

In Going Lean, author Stephen A. Ruffa introduced the groundbreaking principles of lean dynamics, revealing how leading companies go beyond chasing the most visible outcomes of lean to address the disconnects that cause operational waste to accumulate. Illustrated by compelling cases and clear examples, The Going Lean Fieldbook provides a logical structure and practical advice for applying lean principles throughout the organization.

Useful as a stand-alone implementation guide and as a training resource, the book maps out a set path toward reaching a series of critical transformation levels, detailing the activities and the hazards that can derail the journey to each point along the way. Readers will learn how to promote stability, consistency, and innovation by first conducting a “dynamic value assessment” and attaining the buy-in that is critical to making business improvements work.

Based on lessons of real-life firms from different industries that have successfully implemented lean methods, this is an in-the-trenches manual for anyone who wants to energize their organization.

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