Adam Zak, Bill Waddell

Simple Excellence (eBook, ePUB)

Organizing and Aligning the Management Team in a Lean Transformation

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book charts a course of simplification through the complexity often associated with managing performance improvement initiatives. It explains what value streams are and how to use them to structure your business to align everyone with the things that matter most. The text boils constraint management down to its practical terms and lays out an approach to accounting that enables everyone to spend money where it adds value and to stop spending it where it doesn¿t. Written by authorities with extensive experience helping organizations achieve Lean transformations, it includes case studies of organizations recognized for operational excellence.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. November 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040181614
• Artikelnr.: 72282883

Autorenporträt

Adam Zak is the founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of Adam Zak Executive Search and an accomplished senior executive with more than 25 years of experience spanning the areas of management consulting; financial and operations management; and talent acquisition. Adam excels at identifying and attracting business leaders who are experts in lean continuous improvement, process and operational excellence, and sustainability. His impact on organizations quickly becomes apparent as these talented individuals, in their new leadership roles, consistently go on to make their new companies excellent.

Adam has recruited executives for a diverse mix of Fortune 1000, private-equity, and entrepreneurial companies in the United States and abroad. He has worked in a variety of industries from automotive and aerospace giants implementing sustainable operational excellence cultures to fast-paced consumer product distributors revolutionizing their global supply chains with green management practices.

Earlier in his career Adam earned a bachelor's of science in degree in accounting from the University of Illinois, became a certified public accountant, and worked with KPMG in both advisory and assurance roles. He subsequently held a variety of financial and general management positions with venture capital, innovative start-up, and Fortune-ranked companies in Chicago, Seattle, San Francisco, and Silicon Valley.

Adam has been using his uncommon expertise to help his clients improve their businesses operationally and financially for almost 20 years. He's been a partner with two international executive recruiting firms and now conducts executive searches in a much more creative, entrepreneurial, and results-driven (and lean) fashion. His unique and highlypersonalized methodology for recruiting exceptional talent is trademarked as PDCAsearch. Adam is considered by many to be the most influencial leader to

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction/Overview. Creating a Culture of Excellence. Concept of Value -
What it is and how to create it. Conversion to Value Streams. Managing
Constraints. Lean Accounting. Quality Management - a practical application
of Six Sigma. Performance Metrics. Strategic Marketing and Pricing.
Strategic Planning. Sustaining Continuous Improvements. Global Excellence.