Today, ‘lean’ is an enterprise-wide concept although it has originated and evolved in the manufacturing plants and factory floors. It has become pervasive throughout the organization and an overriding principle that guides every activity in the organization. On the other hand, it has evolved as a vital tool to become competitive. Broad insights into success factors, nitty-gritty’s, prerequisites and capabilities for transforming an organization or function into lean can make the difference between lean winners and losers. Hence, organizations and their people need to know what it requires and how one should approach to successfully transform into lean. This book can act as a potential resource for those forward-looking firms and professionals in such critical situations. This book, while introducing the concept of ‘lean transformation’, highlights the potential of transforming into ‘lean’ at large and offer guidance in transforming certain critical functions or organizations into ‘lean’. It is an attempt to address what, why, where and how of lean transformation to empower the concerned. It tries to enlighten the concerned with the lessons learnt from previous experiences of transforming into lean. Further, the lean transformation initiatives and/or experiences of some organizations (predominantly the manufacturing firms) are being included with an aim to offer practical insights to prospective readers. The book is targeted at various interest groups, including practising professionals/executives in the areas of Business Process Reengineering (BPR), Total Quality Management (TQM), Lean Management, production and operations, which are the primary audience for this book. It can be of use for academicians and students of operations, and process management.
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