Lean QuickStart Guide

The Simplified Beginner's Guide to Lean

De: ClydeBank Business, Benjamin Sweeney

Narrado por: Lucy Vest

Lean, total quality management, and process improvement. If you're in the business world, you've undoubtedly heard these terms - from your supervisor, from a client, or from someone talking shop in the break room.

Perhaps you have a decent understanding of these concepts, or maybe you have absolutely no idea what they mean. What's most significant is that you know they are important, that they are not just business buzzwords. You understand that it is critical to your career that you understand these concepts - that's why you are here.

Now that you have realized the significance of the Lean business model and all the concepts, techniques, and philosophies that it brings to the table, where do you start in the learning process, you ask? Right here.

Don't get overwhelmed by the long books that simply have too much information and are impossible to follow. In the Lean QuickStart Guide, we will teach you what you need to know to get up and running with Lean.

You'll understand the fundamentals that form the Lean business model, so you can incorporate it into your business wheelhouse within hours.

Learning for academic purposes? We have you covered too. We will take an academic approach to the Lean business model as well as looking at real-world practical applications in the business environment.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio.

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Great overview of Lean Manufacturing

This is the second book I've listened to by Clydebank Business on the topic of agile methods, project management techniques and related topics. I was sent a free review copy.

Clydebank's books are excellent bird's-eye views of the subject matter and this one is again accompanied by an included free PDF file to enhance the audio content. You don't need to actually have the PDF which contains some infographics and diagrams to hand but it is helpful and a nice touch.

Listening to this book will teach you what "lean manufacturing" means, why you might want to consider it as a business process and the advantages and disadvantages it offers. Lean manufacturing is in essence a philosophical approach to the elimination of wasteful practices and procedures as well as actual tangible and intangible waste such as excess stock and inventory management right through to sub-optimal procedures, meetings, documentation (or lack of it) and so on. Much of this stemmed from a system developed at Toyota and the book goes into some depth about this origination along with how this has led to many of the lean processes and practitioners using some Japanese terms - something which I personally find a barrier and in my opinion can lead to an impression of Lean as being a fad or fashion rather than a sound foundation on which to eliminate waste and improve inefficiency. The book tries to balance this Japanese-naming convention with a good exploration of the concepts behind the words.

It's a tricky thing to try and explore such a vast subject in just over an hour of audio but, well actually they do a good job of it. Lucy Vest's faultless narration arrives at a sensible pace and with the right intonation to stop you nodding off like a student in a sleepy afternoon algebra class and her accent is clear enough for all English speakers, whatever the continent, to understand - an important thing since the topic contains a fairly substantial amount of elements and they arrive in quite a torrent as you might expect from a "quick start guide".

If you have an interest in learning more about alternate ways to run or operate a manufacturing business then you should definitely start here and see if Lean fits with what you're thinking of achieving before diving further and deeper into this expansive area of efficiency methodology and thought processes. Even if you aren't in the manufacturing industry then you may well find a benefit in this commute-sized audiobook's proddings on how to think again about some of the things you do and why you do them.

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I was given this product in exchange for my honest review. I didn't know much about Lean Management, but the audiobook definitely explained the core concepts very clearly. It's important to keep in mind that its structured in a textbook format, so it can feel a little cut and dry, but it definitely has some enlightening information. I definitely recommend.

#leanbusinessmodel A Must Listen To Audio Book

Would you listen to Lean QuickStart Guide again? Why?

Yes, Every time you listen to or read a good book it gives you another angle to think about.

Who was your favorite character and why?

Lean as it is the global concepy

Which scene was your favorite?

Philosophies

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

yes

Any additional comments?

thanks!

Business!

Short review for short book: Lean QuickStart Guide: The Simplified Beginner's Guide to Lean is what it says it is: Lean QuickStart Guide: The Simplified Beginner's Guide to Lean. I am not sure what more to say. Oh it has a PDF that is included! So that is nice! Nothing wrong with this, but again nothing that fantastic to give a 5 star!

Lucy Vest read this too as it was about business. Nice and dry! Nothing wrong with her! Want to learn about Lean in 1 hr and 13 mins? Then this is your book!

I was provided this audiobook at no charge by the author, publisher and/or narrator in exchange for an unbiased review via AudiobookBlast dot com

Quick, clear, concise

Enjoyed the quick overview and has given me several ideas as to which areas I should focus my learning of the Lean and Six Sigma principles.