Andy & Me: Crisis and Transformation on the Lean Journey

by Pascal Dennis

Book Overview

Second Edition of a Shingo Prize Winner Based on the author's personal experience with Toyota's master teachers and with companies in the midst of great change, Andy & Me: Crisis & Transformation on... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1563272989
• ISBN13: 9781563272981
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: Productivity Press
• Length: 183 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

Andy & Me

We have used this book to start a training on lean management. It is a very easy read, contains many of the lean management philosophies. It provides a very good discussion tool. Have your team read several chapters of the book, then have a "book club" where you meet and the sensei asks questions from concepts in the book. It is a good way for people to start understanding basic concepts of lean and start thinking for themselves. After this book, the David Mann book starts to make more sense.

Great book.

This is a very well written book using fiction characters to teach real industry problem solving techniques.

Excellent

This is another "Business novel." The author does an effective job of communicating the philosophy of the Toyota Production System, and discussing organizational transition.

Excellent explanation of the "why's" of the Toyota system

I do not usually like "business novels" because the story gets in the way of the ideas. "Andy & Me" is the exception. This short and readable book does a wonderful job of explaining the transformation of a production plant to the Toyota apporach to lean manufacturing. Reading this you will learn about a number of the lean "tools" but the book is not about lean tools, it is about why those tools are needed and why they work. It is also good to see a lean manufacturing book that recognizes the issues and problems of traditional cost accounting. I recommend this excellent book to anyone on the lean journey.