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Content Preface PART I Hypercompetition Chapter 1 Magnitude Advances in Competitive Standards and Technologies Chapter 2 Global Leanness?An Unstable Phenomenon Chapter 3 Big Question: Does Lean Beget Financial Success? (A Short Chapter) Chapter 4 Ultimate Trend: Improving the Rate of Improvement PART II Improvement Gone Wrong?and Made Right Chapter 5 Waste Elimination, Kaizen, and Continuous Improvement: Mis-Defined and Misunderstood Chapter 6 The Metrics Trap Chapter 7 The Case Against (Much of) Management Goal-Setting PART III A Competitive Fortress Chapter 8 Fortress By Culture Chapter 9 Vengeful Numbers Chapter 10 Process Improvement: Stretching Company Capabilities Chapter 11 Unique Business Models (Big Ideas) PART IV What Goes Wrong: Impressive Companies and Their Weak Spots Chapter 12 Does Rapid Growth Put the Brakes on Lean? Chapter 13 Losing Their Way?or Not PART V Leanness: A Changing Landscape Chapter 14 Global ?Lean? Champions: Passing the Torch Chapter 15 How Overweight Companies Get Lean Chapter 16 Flow-Through Facilities Chapter 17 External Linkages PART VI Why Industries Rank Where They Do Chapter 18 Leanness Rankings for 33 Industrial Sectors Chapter 19 Electronics: A Metamorphosis Chapter 20 Motor-Vehicle Industry: Earliest but Lagging Chapter 21 Aerospace-Defense: OEM?s Soaring, Suppliers Not Chapter 22 Other Industries Epilogue Index
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Six sigma (Quality control standard).
Total quality management.
Production management.