The Lean Solutions Podcast

This week I’m speaking with David Mann, who has over 25 years of consulting on lean and lean management implementations in a wide range of manufacturing, health care, enterprise business processes, and extended value chains.
In this episode we talk about David’s book and one of my favorite lean books, Creating a Lean Culture and how you can create the behaviors and practices of a lean management system in your own organization.
What You’ll Learn This Episode:

What inspired David to write Creating a Lean Culture

The specific behaviors and practices that instilled a lean management system

Mindset shifts for implementing lean systems

The most important aspect in sustaining a lean culture

Where David has seen the elements of lean management applied

About the Guest:
David Mann is the principal of David Mann Lean Consulting. In 15 years of lean experience at Steelcase Inc., Mann developed the concepts and tools of a lean management system, supporting 40+ lean manufacturing value stream transformations, and then leading an internal team that completed over 100 successful lean conversions in administrative and business process value streams. He established a consulting practice in 2005, serving organizations across industries worldwide.
David is an implementer, consultant, coach, teacher and the author of the book Creating a Lean Culture, in which he won a Shingo Award.
Important Links:
https://dmannlean.com/
https://www.amazon.com/Creating-Lean-Culture-David-Mann/dp/1482243237

Show Notes

This week I’m speaking with David Mann, who has over 25 years of consulting on lean and lean management implementations in a wide range of manufacturing, health care, enterprise business processes, and extended value chains.

In this episode we talk about David’s book and one of my favorite lean books, Creating a Lean Culture and how you can create the behaviors and practices of a lean management system in your own organization.

What You’ll Learn This Episode:

  • What inspired David to write Creating a Lean Culture
  • The specific behaviors and practices that instilled a lean management system
  • Mindset shifts for implementing lean systems
  • The most important aspect in sustaining a lean culture
  • Where David has seen the elements of lean management applied

About the Guest:

David Mann is the principal of David Mann Lean Consulting. In 15 years of lean experience at Steelcase Inc., Mann developed the concepts and tools of a lean management system, supporting 40+ lean manufacturing value stream transformations, and then leading an internal team that completed over 100 successful lean conversions in administrative and business process value streams. He established a consulting practice in 2005, serving organizations across industries worldwide.

David is an implementer, consultant, coach, teacher and the author of the book Creating a Lean Culture, in which he won a Shingo Award.

Important Links:

https://dmannlean.com/

https://www.amazon.com/Creating-Lean-Culture-David-Mann/dp/1482243237

What is The Lean Solutions Podcast?

This podcast offers business solutions to help listeners develop and implement action plans for lean process improvement and implement continuous improvement projects, cost reductions, product quality enhancements, and process effectiveness improvement. Listeners come from many industries in both manufacturing and office applications.