Lean Enterprise Value: Insights from MIT's Lean Aerospace Initiative

by Earll Murman, Thomas Allen, Kirkor Bozdogan

Lean Production transformed the way that companies think about production and manufacturing. This book provides a new challenge. It arises from the work of the Lean Aerospace Initiative at MIT and provides a new agenda and bold vision for the aerospace industry to take it out of crisis. It also redefines and develops the concept of Lean as a framework for enterprise transformation and this will be relevant and critical for all industries and enterprises.

Genres: Business

360 pages, Hardcover

First published May 17, 2002

Reviews

[Niko Gamulin]

The book introduces the concepts of value stream, total quality control and other lean principles that enable the company to focus on value delivery to all stakeholders and quickly adapt the production processes to current market trends.

There are a number of inspirational examples from aerospace industry that enabled companies to eliminate waste and increase product value by implementing lean concepts which can be applied in other complex environments as well. Definitely a great introduction to lean philosophy for anyone interested in company strategy and process management.

[Robb]

Awesome at addressing the "value equation" for adopting lean across an Enterprise.

(And the first book that mentions my research! I'm in print!!!)

[Bigalgot]

Fabulous introduction to what it means to be lean.

[Warren]

Used for the LSS course at MIT, 2008 (see youtube).

[Dana]

Fairly technical book about Lean.