Pascal Dennis - Author
BOOKS
Lean Production Simplified
A clear, engaging guide to the Toyota Production System (Lean)—a management system & philosophy that involves all team members in reducing waste & variation so as to continually create customer value. Written for the practitioner by a practitioner, it delivers a comprehensive insider's view of Lean management. The author's straightforward, common sense approach makes this book an easily accessible, on-the-floor resource for every team member.
Getting the Right Things Done - a Leader's Guide to Strategy & Execution
This Shingo Prize-winning novel tells the story of a troubled company's turnaround. Atlas Industries needs to dramatically improve to compete with emerging rivals and meet new customer demands. In the words of its President. 'Something is missing: a way of focusing & aligning the efforts of good people, and a delivery system, something that directs powerful tools to the right places.' Enter Strategy Deployment (Hoshin Kanri).
Based on the author's personal experience with Toyota’s master teachers and with companies in the midst of great change, Andy & Me: Crisis & Transformation on the Lean Journey, is a business novel set in a failing New Jersey auto plant focusing on the tribulations of Tom Papas, the plant manager.
In a cool, readable style, this highly popular work follows Tom's relationship with Andy Saito, a reclusive retired Toyota guru whom Tom persuades to help save his plant through the teaching of the legendary Toyota Production System (TPS).
Though Tom finds success ― both in his plant and in his personal life ― he learns from Andy that successful improvement is endless and eternal.
Andy & Me and the Hospital: Further Adventures on the Lean Journey
Andy & Me in the Hospital, is a business novel set in a major New York City hospital. In a cool and readable style, the book follows Tom Papas & his sensei, Andy Saito as they try to save an organization in crisis. Can they translate and apply Toyota’s powerful methods and thinking to save the hospital from disaster?
This compelling novel illustrates how to translate & apply Lean thinking & methods in a Healthcare setting. It also vividly illustrates the situations, characters, and blockers you're most likely face on the journey.
Harnessing Digital Disruption
How do we prosper in a Digital world?
In a cool, readable style Harnessing Digital Disruption tells the story of a major multi-national bank facing Digital disruption & irrelevance. This engaging novel demonstrates how to harness the power of Digital technology, methods & thinking on the path to revival & prosperity.
The setting is Singapore and the heady world of international banking, but the prescription, methods and lessons also apply to manufacturers, utilities, hospitals, insurers, and government agencies.
The Remedy: Bringing Lean Thinking Out of the Factory to Transform the Entire Organization
The Remedy describes the further adventures of Tom Papas and his sensei, Andy Saito. Tom & Andy are pulled out of the factory and into Design, Engineering, Sales, Marketing and all processes in between. This work demonstrates that Lean/OpEx tools, methods & thinking can create value across the organization. The book provides practical knowledge for Lean/OpEx champions, managers, and executives driving toward excellence enterprise-wide.
