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WOMACK, JAMES was born on October 30, 1948 in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.
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Lean Thinking was launched in the fall of 1996, just in time for the recession of 1997. It told the story of how American, European, and Japanese firms applied a simple set of principles called 'lean thinking' to survive the recession of 1991 and grow steadily in sales and profits through 1996. Even though the recession of 1997 never happened, companies were starving for information on how to make themselves leaner and more efficient. Now we are dealing with the recession of 2001 and the financial meltdown of 2002. So what happened to the exemplar firms profiled in Lean Thinking? In the new fully revised edition of this bestselling book those pioneering lean thinkers are brought up to date. Authors James Womack and Daniel Jones offer new guidelines for lean thinking firms and bring their groundbreaking practices to a brand new generation of companies that are looking to stay one step ahead of the competition.
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In this landmark new book, James Womack and Daniel Jones deconstruct this broken producer-consumer model and show businesses how to repair it. A massive disconnect exists between consumers and providers today. Consumers have a greater selection of higher quality goods to choose from and can obtain these items from a growing number of sources. Computers, cars, and even big-box retail sites promise to solve our every need. So why aren't consumers any happier?
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The classic, nationally bestselling book that first articulated the principles of lean production, with a new foreword and afterword by the authors. When The Machine That Changed the World was first published in 1990, Toyota was half the size of General Motors. Twenty years later Toyota passed GM as the world’s largest auto maker. This management classic was the first book to reveal Toyota’s lean production system that is the basis for its enduring success. Authors Womack, Jones, and Roos provided a comprehensive description of the entire lean system. They exhaustively documented its advantages over the mass production model pioneered by General Motors and predicted that lean production would eventually triumph. Indeed, they argued that it would triumph not just in manufacturing but in every value-creating activity from health care to retail to distribution. Today The Machine That Changed the World provides enduring and essential guidance to managers and leaders in every industry seeking to transform traditional enterprises into exemplars of lean success.
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WOMACK, JAMES was born on October 30, 1948 in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.
Southeastern University (Bachelor of Arts, 1971). Tulane University of Louisiana (Juris Doctor, 1974).
Womack first became widely known as an author in 1990 with publication of the book The Machine That Changed the World, which made the term lean production known worldwide. The book has been translated into eleven languages and has been sold more than 600,000 times. A revised edition was published in 2007.
Womack received his bachelor"s degree in political science from the University of Chicago in 1970.
He earned his master"s degree in transportation systems in 1975 at Harvard University. His Doctor of Philosophy in political science was received from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) in 1982 for a dissertation on the comparison of industrial policy in the United States, Germany and Japan.
From 1975-1991 Womack led a number of comparative studies on worldwide production practices. The study of the automotive industry (the International Motor Vehicle Program - IMVP), funded with more than United States$5 million, was the most important.
Womack left Massachusetts Institute of Technology shortly after the publication of his book and founded the Lean Enterprise Institute (LEI) in 1997.
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New Orleans, Louisiana State and American Bar Associations. Maritime Law Association of the United States. Louisiana Association of Defense Counsel.