The Antidote
The Antidote is the remedy for sick, stalled, and even healthy companies uncertain about winning--and it provides a roadmap for gaining and sustaining market leadership. Anand Sharma and Gary Hourselt provide a one-stop guide to meeting the extreme challenges of the 21st century through speed, agility, quality, employee empowerment, innovation, and continuous growth.

Sustainable competitive advantage in today's global marketplace can be difficult to acquire, especially if your company is burdened by the old scientific management model. The Antidote introduces a revolutionary alternative to the outdated command-and-control structure that restricts so many companies. It's called the transformational management system, and it involves everyone in the company squeezing out waste and creating value for your customers. With its roots in Toyota's lean culture, the transformational management system helps enterprises of all sizes and shapes align work with strategies, discover the Voice of the customer, develop game-changing products and services rapidly, and become innovative solutions providers.

Sharma and Hourselt offer powerful techniques you can use to control costs and spur continuous growth, and they show you how to apply them through the examples of companies who have undergone sea-change behavior to reach market leadership.

Companies that have traveled this transformational journey experience impressive results: Productivity up 15 percent, sales up 20 percent, profits up 25 percent, and 15 to 20 percent growth every year. They cut lead times by 90 percent and inventory by 50 percent, achievements that are just as relevant for service companies as they are for manufacturers.

A passionate call to action, The Antidote describes the path business leaders can take today to meet increasingly complex business challenges and transform their organizations to create promising futures for themselves and their employees.
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The Antidote
The Antidote is the remedy for sick, stalled, and even healthy companies uncertain about winning--and it provides a roadmap for gaining and sustaining market leadership. Anand Sharma and Gary Hourselt provide a one-stop guide to meeting the extreme challenges of the 21st century through speed, agility, quality, employee empowerment, innovation, and continuous growth.

Sustainable competitive advantage in today's global marketplace can be difficult to acquire, especially if your company is burdened by the old scientific management model. The Antidote introduces a revolutionary alternative to the outdated command-and-control structure that restricts so many companies. It's called the transformational management system, and it involves everyone in the company squeezing out waste and creating value for your customers. With its roots in Toyota's lean culture, the transformational management system helps enterprises of all sizes and shapes align work with strategies, discover the Voice of the customer, develop game-changing products and services rapidly, and become innovative solutions providers.

Sharma and Hourselt offer powerful techniques you can use to control costs and spur continuous growth, and they show you how to apply them through the examples of companies who have undergone sea-change behavior to reach market leadership.

Companies that have traveled this transformational journey experience impressive results: Productivity up 15 percent, sales up 20 percent, profits up 25 percent, and 15 to 20 percent growth every year. They cut lead times by 90 percent and inventory by 50 percent, achievements that are just as relevant for service companies as they are for manufacturers.

A passionate call to action, The Antidote describes the path business leaders can take today to meet increasingly complex business challenges and transform their organizations to create promising futures for themselves and their employees.
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The Antidote is the remedy for sick, stalled, and even healthy companies uncertain about winning--and it provides a roadmap for gaining and sustaining market leadership. Anand Sharma and Gary Hourselt provide a one-stop guide to meeting the extreme challenges of the 21st century through speed, agility, quality, employee empowerment, innovation, and continuous growth.

Sustainable competitive advantage in today's global marketplace can be difficult to acquire, especially if your company is burdened by the old scientific management model. The Antidote introduces a revolutionary alternative to the outdated command-and-control structure that restricts so many companies. It's called the transformational management system, and it involves everyone in the company squeezing out waste and creating value for your customers. With its roots in Toyota's lean culture, the transformational management system helps enterprises of all sizes and shapes align work with strategies, discover the Voice of the customer, develop game-changing products and services rapidly, and become innovative solutions providers.

Sharma and Hourselt offer powerful techniques you can use to control costs and spur continuous growth, and they show you how to apply them through the examples of companies who have undergone sea-change behavior to reach market leadership.

Companies that have traveled this transformational journey experience impressive results: Productivity up 15 percent, sales up 20 percent, profits up 25 percent, and 15 to 20 percent growth every year. They cut lead times by 90 percent and inventory by 50 percent, achievements that are just as relevant for service companies as they are for manufacturers.

A passionate call to action, The Antidote describes the path business leaders can take today to meet increasingly complex business challenges and transform their organizations to create promising futures for themselves and their employees.

Product Details

BN ID: 2940015972498
Publisher: Managing Times Press
Publication date: 01/01/2013
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 194
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Anand Sharma
Recognized as "A Hero of US Manufacturing" by Fortune magazine, Anand has worked beside the Japanese pioneers who founded the famed Toyota Production System (TPS). In 2002, he received the Donald C. Burnham Manufacturing Management Award from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers. A leading consultant and strategist to CEOs of Fortune 1000 companies on five continents, he has personally led productivity improvements, innovation, and growth at hundreds of enterprises that have emerged as market leaders.

Anand is the president and CEO of TBM Consulting Group, Inc., which has grown over the past 20 years to be the worldwide leader in "lean innovation" and business improvement. With more than 20 years of line management experience within the manufacturing industry, he is a frequent lecturer on global manufacturing and enterprise performance.

He is also the author of The Perfect Engine: How to Win in the New Demand Economy by Building to Order with Fewer Resources (Free Press, 2001) and holds a Masters Degree in Business Administration from Boston University and undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from Roorkee University in India.

Gary Hourselt
As former executive vice president of International Consulting and Strategy at TBM Consulting Group, Inc., and a former senior executive in the aerospace industry, Gary provided a broad expertise in lean business strategy development and deployment to TBM's Strategy Practice. Gary helped many of TBM's client companies leverage their LeanSigma gains to achieve significant growth. In addition to his expertise in LeanSigma transformation, he is an authority on industrial strategy, growth leadership, and execution.

During his five years as president of Huck Fastening Systems' industrial and aerospace divisions, revenues nearly doubled, pre-tax income increased over 700 percent, and return on investment nearly quadrupled. He has also led the acquisition and integration of four global businesses in four years.

A Certified Public Accountant, Gary has led companies throughout Canada, China, France, Germany, Great Britain, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, and the United States. He has an MBA from Northern Illinois University and a Bachelor's degree from Aurora University.
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