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Freedom from Command and Control: Rethinking Management for Lean Service

Autor John Seddon
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 12 aug 2005

Adresat managerilor, consultanților în eficiență și liderilor din organizații de servicii, Freedom from Command and Control reprezintă o critică riguroasă a metodelor de management tradiționale. John Seddon pornește de la premisa că eșecul multor organizații moderne nu rezidă în lipsa de efort a angajaților, ci în sistemele de comandă și control care prioritizează ierarhia în detrimentul valorii oferite clientului. Apreciem modul în care autorul, un adept al sistemului de producție Toyota, reușește să traducă principii din industria manufacturieră în contextul intangibil al serviciilor.

Structura volumului reflectă o progresie logică de la demontarea miturilor Taylorismului la implementarea unor noi unități de măsură. Descoperim în capitolele dedicate centrelor de suport o analiză detaliată a arhetipului „break-fix”, unde Seddon demonstrează cum optimizarea fragmentată a departamentelor poate distruge eficiența globală. Considerăm că forța acestui text stă în capitolul „Learning to see, learning to lead”, care oferă instrumentele necesare pentru ca managementul să înțeleagă fluxul real al muncii.

Cititorul care a aplicat ideile din TOYOTA WAY SVC EXCELLENCE de Liker va găsi aici o completare necesară, axată mai puțin pe instrumente și mai mult pe schimbarea radicală a mentalității manageriale necesare pentru a susține Lean. În contextul operei sale, această lucrare consolidează temele abordate în Systems Thinking in the Public Sector, însă oferă o perspectivă mai largă, aplicabilă atât în sectorul privat, cât și în cel public. Spre deosebire de Operations Management for Service Industries de Glenn Bassett, care se concentrează pe gestionarea blocajelor, Seddon propune o regândire totală a scopului muncii prin prisma nevoilor clientului.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781563273278
ISBN-10: 1563273276
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: black & white illustrations
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Productivity Press
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Professional Practice & Development

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Recenzii

"John Seddon describes the real world. In the real world people make the work work - if managers know how to let them."
--Alan Hughes, Chief Executive,, First Direct, June 2005

"John Seddon has spent a lifetime developing ways of improving service organizations and service centers in particular. Anyone in the service business would learn a lot from reading this book."
--Daniel T Jones, Lean Enterprise Academy,, co-author, "The Machine that Changed the World", June 2005

"Successive governments have sought improvements to public services through a mixture of Whitehall designed carrots and sticks. The approach isn't working. There is a better way. John Seddon's description is clear and practical. Essential reading for public service managers who are willing to change the way they think."
--Peter Stott, Managing Director, Home Housing Association, June 2005

"As a public sector practitioner I found John Seddon's book a beacon of sanity in the increasingly insane world of targets, Best Value Performance Indicators, league [i.e., ranking] tables and inspection regimes. Not only is his approach intellectually stimulating - it works! Improved performance across my organization is a testament to its effectiveness."
--David Weatherley, Chief Executive,, Tamworth Borough Council, June 2005

"Command and Control is clearly becoming a redundant way of working for many enterprises. It is no longer a satisfactory method of continually driving performance and making an impact as a modern manager in the longer term. People should be the drivers, adaptive to change in order to improve performance, building quality in and around delivery of service. It is a clear question of adding value to an organization and delivery to its customers rather than simply being managed by numbers. This book challenges the reader to examine their approaches to management."
--Nick Tofiluk, Assistant Chief Constable, West Midlands Police, June 2005

"Organizations knowing the cost of everything and the customer value of nothing will not survive. John Seddon has thrown a lifeline to those who are inspired enough to seize it."
--Stephen Parry, Head Of Strategy And Change, Fujitsu Services, June 2005

"Seldom in our lifetimes does a person advocate a journey that only promises the opportunity to feel completely and utterly uncomfortable and wrong. Destroying the working paradigm takes a massive act of conviction from management, admitting that you have been wrong (for years) takes an equally massive act of bravery. Putting the two together feels fundamentally insane but to create real moments of change in today's business world takes leaps of faith. In this book John Seddon provides a key to the wise and the brave that can unlock their people, their customers and their profits. Do you have the faith, bravery and conviction to use it?"
--Bruce MacLellan, Director, Customer Contact, Capital One, June 2005

Cuprins

Acknowledgement, Introduction: There is a better way, Chapter 1 Once upon a time in manufacturing, Chapter 2 The customer service center as a system, Chapter 3 Redefining the purpose, measures and method of work, Chapter 4 Better measures, better thinking, Chapter 5 The ‘break–fix’ archetype, Chapter 6 Learning to see, learning to lead, Chapter 7 Customers—people who can pull you away from the competition, Chapter 8 Do these hold water?, Chapter 9 Watch out for the toolheads, Conclusion: Revisiting Taylorism, Appendix: The better way to improve public services, Endnotes, Further Reading, Other Publications, Index, About the Author

Descriere scurtă

"Command and Control is failing us. There is a better way to design and manage work - a better way to make work work - but it remains unknown to the vast majority of managers."
An adherent of the Toyota Production System, John Seddon explains how traditional top-down decision making within service organizations leads to managers

Descriere

Through case material, this Toyota Production Systems adherent illustrates how systems thinking leads to improved service, revenues, and staff morale. He also posits that the service industry fundamentally differs from manufacturing, and shows how Toyota production principles can be transformed for application in that arena.