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The 12 Principles of Manufacturing Excellence
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The 12 Principles of Manufacturing Excellence

by Larry E. Fast
September 2015
Intermediate to advanced
302 pages
8h 16m
English
Productivity Press
Content preview from The 12 Principles of Manufacturing Excellence
Leading the Revolution—From the Top • 11
Lean Six Sigma, and LeanSigma. What’s next? If C-level leaders don’t
start leading, then it really doesn’t matter. Continuous improvement has
been front and center as a critical need in manufacturing now for 35 years.
For manufacturing companies, I would argue that this is the single largest
failure of manufacturing leaders over this period of time, from the board
and CEOs on down.
WHO’S RUNNING THE BUSINESS?
In addition to the ignorance referred to earlier as one of the issues, I’d also
argue that too many boards and CEOs allow Wall Street to have too heavy an
inuence on how they run their companies ...
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