The authors claim to show how lean thinking with a new definition of value can
breathe life into a company or economic activity, doubling productivity and
sales whilst stabilizing employment, by providing a step by step plan based on
in depth studies of fifty lean companies around the world.In the revised and
updated edition of Lean Thinking: Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your
Corporation, authors James P. Womack and Daniel T. Jones provide a thoughtful
expansion upon their value-based business system based on the Toyota model.
Along the way they update their action plan in light of new research and the
increasing globalization of manufacturing, and