Kanban Change Leadership: Creating a Culture of Continuous Improvement

Kanban Change Leadership: Creating a Culture of Continuous Improvement

by Siegfried Kaltenecker (Author), Klaus Leopold (Author)

Synopsis

Explains how and why Kanban offers a new approach to changein 21st Century businesses

This book provides an understanding of what is necessary toproperly understand change management with Kanban as well as how toapply it optimally in the workplace. The book emphasizes criticalaspects, several traps which users repeatedly fall into, andpresents some practical guidelines for Kanban change management tohelp avoid these traps. The authors have organized the book intothree sections. The first section focuses on the foundations ofKanban, establishing the technical basis of Kanban and indicatingthe mechanisms required to enact change. In the second section, theauthors explain the context of Kanban change management--theoptions for change, how they can be set in motion, and theirconsequences for a business. The third section takes the topicsfrom the previous sections and relates them to the social system ofbusiness--the goal is to guide readers in the process ofbuilding a culture of continuousimprovement by reviewing real casestudies and seeing how Kanban is applied in varioussituations.

Kanban Change Leadership:

  • Explains how to implement sustainable system-wide changes usingKanban principles
  • Addresses the principles and core practices of Kanban includingvisualization, WIP limits, classes of service, operation andcoordination, metrics, and improvement
  • Describes implementation, preparation, assessment, training, feedback, commissioning, and operation processes in order to createa culture of continuous improvement

Kanban Change Leadership is an educational andcomprehensive text for: software and systems engineers; IT projectmanagers; commercial and industrial executives and managers; aswell as anyone interested in Kanban.

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More Information

Format: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Edition: 1
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 01 May 2015

ISBN 10: 1119019702
ISBN 13: 9781119019701

Author Bio
Klaus Leopold, PhD., is a computer scientist with extensiveexperience in helping IT organizations to manage knowledge work.Dr. Leopold is the managing partner of the company LEANabilityGmbH, based in Vienna, Austria. He is a founding member of LeanKanban University, co-founder of the Limited WiP Society in Austriaand Switzerland, a founding member of the management network Stoos, and author of the blog klausleopold.com.

Siegfried Kaltenecker, PhD., is the managing partner of thecompany Loop Organizational Consulting GmbH, based in Vienna, Austria. As a change management and leadership expert, Dr.Kaltenecker has specialized in Process Management withLean/Agile/Kanban/Scrum and has worked as a consultant and trainerfor over twenty years for a variety of companies. He is theco-editor of PAM--Platform for Agile Management andco-author of Leading Self-Organizing Teams.