Leading Beyond Lean: The Seven Drivers of Productivity

Three practicing managers with years ofexperience improving production facilities around the world explain why leanmethodology on its own often fails to deliver productivity gains and how aholistic package incorporating safety, employee development, business planning,capital spending, performance management, quality and lean work can together todeliver results.

Improving productivity is the holy grail of every sitemanager. But while three decades of initiatives from Kaizen through TQM toLean/Six Sigma have all had an impact, the fact remains that a few companies outperform the others.

This is often because individual change initiativesaddress only one aspect of a much more complex problem. What is needed is aholistic productivity system that addresses every aspect of production. Toimplement a productivity system in practice, you need more than TQM, more thatLean. Based on their experience managing and improving production facilities aroundthe world the authors show how there are seven key elements that combine tocreate a sustainable productivity system.

Leading Beyond Lean explainshow these seven elements work together, and how you can set up your own bespokeproductivity system, like they did.

As practising managers Østbø, Wetherill and Cattermolehave used these techniques and procedures to deliver improvements in both insafety and productivity. Helping their sites to become more economicallyviable, evolving from ＂problem sites＂ with uncertain futures intovibrant sites that attract reinvestment and growth. They become cleaner, saferand better organised, and therefore more attractive places to work in.

This book will help any company, any site manager, andany production director understand what is needed to set up a lastingproductivity system, not in theory, but in practice – and to deliveroutstanding results.