Charles C. Poirier, Michael J. Bauer, William F. Houser

The Wall Street Diet: Making Your Business Lean and Healthy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Businesses trying to stay lean and fit face the same challenges as human dieters success requires fundamental lifestyle changes and sustained, continuing effort. And, like human dieters, businesses, too, are susceptible to the come-ons of the latest quick-fix fads, which often deliver short-term gains but fall short in the long run. Eventually they go back to their old habits and they re right back where they started. It s a vicious cycle.

The Wall Street Diet uses a diet metaphor to illustrate a complete, integrated approach to what every business must do to become a lean, healthy enterprise. Like a truly effective weight loss program, it is a plan for achieving sustained benefits following the Wall Street Diet will add five to eight points of potential new profit to a business's bottom line.

Using the proven concept of total enterprise optimization (TEO) as a framework, the book introduces a fitness program that brings together lean techniques, advanced supply chain management, improved quality concepts, selective outsourcing, and a focus on both the top and bottom lines. The authors detail specific TEO efforts that add savings and create new values, demonstrating the synergy to be had by combining those efforts with improved consumption data and analysis and innovative partnering with allied businesses. Fundamentally, The Wall Street Diet is about changing the culture that drives the business, leading to better earnings, continued growth, and the greatest value for all stakeholders.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berrett-Koehler Publishers / McGraw-Hill Professional
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: Mai 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 176mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 494g
• ISBN-13: 9781576753811
• ISBN-10: 1576753816
• Artikelnr.: 20807424

Autorenporträt

Charles C. Poirier, Michael J. Bauer, and William F. Houser

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments

1 Change Your Lifestyle Introduce the Wall Street Diet
2 Start Your Diet Create a Lean Enterprise
3 Reduce Cholesterol and Increase Flow Streamline Your Business
4 Lose Weight Make Your Business Lean
5 Stick to Your Diet Use Quality for Measurement
6 Chart Your Health Use Productivity Profiling to Target Gains
7 Don t Do It Yourself Outsource to Change Your Lifestyle
8 Adopt a New Lifestyle Focus on Customer Satisfaction
9 Begin with Healthy Ingredients Get Beyond the Cultural Roadblocks
10 Maintain the Gains Turn the Diet into a Successful Business Plan
11 Afterword Get Healthy

Appendix
Bibliography
Index
About the Authors

Rezensionen

"A business book with a bite! The Wall Street Diet provides the ingredients for making business changes in your enterprise while offering a coherent message about business impact and bottom line results. I recommend this book for senior executives and managers who want sustained improvement, not the fad of the month."
Ken C. Bohlen, Executive Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer, Textron, Inc.

"The authors have done a great job in conveying advanced supply chain management concepts using a well-known metaphor to which all levels of management can relate. Providing management checklists along the way is the masterstroke that will guarantee flawless execution of the concepts and significant business benefit."
Larry Lapide, PhD, MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics

"These authors know what business is all about and how to improve one. Their diet is right on the mark for pinpointing where a business is working or not, and how to get started on making the necessary changes. The Wall Street Diet is all about making more money and keeping customers happy."
Mike Wells, President, King Machine

The Wall Street Diet is a triumph in its unique ability to dissect a complex operation into its simplest elements and identify the easiest path to improvement. I can personally attest that the results of the methods mentioned in this book are both real and lasting. The expertise the authors bring into a manufacturing environment has provided the impetus for many improvements in product quality, constraint elimination, and improvements in efficiency and productivity.
Albert R. Klopsic, Vice President, Technical Services and Sales, EKCO Products