The Lean Extended Enterprise: Moving Beyond the Four Walls to Value Stream Excellence [Hardcover]

Terence T. Burton (Author), Steven Broeder (Author), Steven M. Boeder (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 2003 | ISBN-10: 1932159126 | ISBN-13: 978-1932159127

This unique and cutting-edge book takes Lean beyond your four walls to the end-to-end supply chain. The authors discuss how to integrate the total value stream — vertically, horizontally, and laterally and achieve success through empowered people and teams, cultural transformation, and an integration of Lean, Six Sigma, Kaizen, and enabling technologies such as ERP, SCM, APS, CRM, PLM, networks, exchangers, and portals. Using the Lean Extended Enterprise Reference Model (LEERM), the authors demonstrate that by deploying the right methodologies and technologies to the right situation you can achieve huge breakthroughs in performance.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 296 pages
• Publisher: J Ross Pub (May 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1932159126
• ISBN-13: 978-1932159127
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,010,835 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Terence T. Burton is Founder and President of The Center for Excellence in Operations, Inc. (CEO), a leading global management consultancy specializing in Lean Six Sigma and all other enterprise-wide strategic, operational, and continuous improvement initiatives. (www.ceobreakthrough.com)

Terry has over thirty years of executive experience in manufacturing, quality, engineering and new product development, global supply chain, IT, and management consulting. Terry is best known for his leadership saavy, innovations in improvement, and "hands-on" approach to consulting focused on tangible improvements and measurable results.

Prior to his consulting career, Terry held several senior line management positions at Wang, Polaroid, and Atlantic Richfield, and two other international consulting firms - KPMG Peat Marwick and Pittiglio, Rabin, Todd, & McGrath (PRTM). He has extensive management consulting experience with over 300 clients and thousands of improvement projects in the Americas and Europe, ranging from multinational public corporations to smaller and mid-sized companies, hospitals, financial services, and government contractors.

Terry holds a BS in Industrial Engineering, a MS in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, and a MBA, and is also a certified Six Sigma Black Belt. He is a frequent and sought after keynote speaker, thought leader, implementation expert, and professional advisor for various industry associations and publications. He has published eight books on Lean, Six Sigma, and various other improvement topics.

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars the lan extended enterprise, September 19, 2003

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This review is from: The Lean Extended Enterprise: Moving Beyond the Four Walls to Value Stream Excellence (Hardcover)

Being a "real world" lean practitioner and having gone through the many trappings in "going lean," I found T. Burton and S. Boeder's book, "The Lean Extended Enterprise" to be one of the most practical and usefull text on the market. These authors have blended the best of academics, case histories, lean tools, and industrial science to provide a road map to navigate a lean implimentation. I.e., not only on the shop floor, but across the enterprise. This helps preclude the sub-optimiztion syndrome and lack of work organization and syncronization that many of us have experienced while attempting to go "lean."

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Lean Extended Enterprise, September 19, 2003

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"jsams37771" (KNOXVILLE, TN USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Lean Extended Enterprise: Moving Beyond the Four Walls to Value Stream Excellence (Hardcover)

The book does a good job by meeting its objectives. It provides guidence for the executive that's trying to fit everything into the process from strategic planning to execution.

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great reference for Enterprise application of lean, September 19, 2003

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Steven M. Boeder "sboeder" (Madison, WI) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Lean Extended Enterprise: Moving Beyond the Four Walls to Value Stream Excellence (Hardcover)

The book provides a great reference model ("Lean Extended Enterprise Reference Model-LEERM") for understanding the strucure and framework for assisting companies, their customers, and suppliers in transitioning to a total value stream conversion to lean. Unfortuately most books on the subject of lean only address the application of specific lean tools (Kanban, SMED, etc.) and do not provide the strucured methodology necessary for aligning the total organization. The Lean Extended Enterprise Model outlined in the book identifies Panels of Value Stream Integration; (1) Strategic Journey Panel, (2) Best Practices and Principles Panel, (3) Implementation Panel,(4) Methodologies, Tools,and Enabling Technologoes Panel. Additionally the book provides a formal performance measurement tool to support the Lean Extended Enterprise Reference Model. The termed used to define this model by the authors is "Lean Extended Enterprise Assessment Process-LEEAP". Seven major evaluation areas are identified in detail; (1) Leadership, (2) Customer and market focus. (3) Uniform improvement infrastructure, (4) Value stream processes, (5) Extended enterprise integration, (6) organizational learning, and (7) Performance measurement. This book is a must read reference for those companies who are serious about implementing Lean throughout the entire Supply Chain.