Customer Reviews:
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 Start eliminating waste! August 27, 2005
Jack Mehoff (straight outta compton)
2 out of 10 found this review helpful
Buy this book, and pull up a stool! Thanks to Lean Thinking, I'm shedding waste right now. Wow! It's explosive!
 Impression of "Lean Thinking" as a Business Tool August 19, 2005
Gary L. King (Chicago, IL. USA)
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
I found the book to be quite informative, applicable to any business, and a "must have" in our company library and in any company laying claim to being a "learning organization."
 Basic Basic Basic July 28, 2005
GB
8 out of 14 found this review helpful
This book offered very little new information other than the basics that any of us who have ever done process improvement already know. Although the authors mention how Lean works in non-manufacturing environments, their examples are almost purely manufacturing.
Not a bad read for a college student, but a waste of time for practitioners. Totally an introduction.
 THE BOOK HAVE NOT RECIVED July 25, 2005
Cesar Llanas
2 out of 25 found this review helpful
AS I DID NOT RECIVED THIS ITEM YET, I CAN NOT LET YOU KNOW ANY THING.
Great, if you like stories about business. May 19, 2004
Greg Stein (California)
68 out of 80 found this review helpful
I'm not sure who the audience is for Lean Thinking. Call me naïve, but I assumed it was written by Womack and Jones to help organizations analyze their business processes and eliminate muda (Japanese for "waste"), thereby improving overall performance. However, after reading almost 250 pages of anecdotal success stories, the chapter entitled "Action Plan," where one would assume resides the punch-line of the text, I was met by the profound advice to "Get the knowledge" by hiring one of the numerous experts in North America, Europe or Japan, and read some of the "vast literature" available on lean techniques. Reminds me of the Steve Martin joke where he tells you how to be a millionaire. "First, get a million dollars."After reading Lean Thinking, I'm struck by the irony that while the authors recommend removing waste from the manner by which your products are delivered to the end customer, they don't take their own advice. The text could have been distilled from 384 pages down to five or six, since there's no real substantive instruction on how to implement lean principles. Then again, maybe I completely misinterpreted the intent of the authors as to their audience and it really was written for the business historian who enjoys reading about how Pratt & Whitney started in 1855. That must be it, because after I ponder the title, I realize that Lean Thinking is for just that, thinking. What I really wanted was a book entitled Lean Doing.
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