he cornerstone of Lean Thinking is the continuous search for and elimination of waste in order to produce more with less resource consumption. Lean Thinking can be seen as an evolution of previous organizational models that it succeeds in integrating into a coherent business system.
II results are of this order of magnitude: productivity + 100%, lead-time reduction, inventory, 50% errors and so on. This book, essential and rigorous, reads like a novel, is addressed to Italian companies, reports Italian cases and protagonists close to us: therefore, it leaves no alibi for those who do not want to apply it with the excuse that "it can't be done here" or "things are different here" and the like. It can therefore be used by specialists as a reference text, but especially by entrepreneurs, managers, students and all those who, out of business or cultural interests, have the courage to think and use their intelligence.
The book is now out of print but the topics have been extensively taken up and updated in the book Lean Thinking. Lean Thinking the Italian way. Let's build the competitive enterprise (more productivity-minus waste) 5 new Italian success stories
