Lean Management for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises

​Ganesh Mahadevan is a partner and Lead Consultant at Kanzen Institute Asia Pacific Pvt. Ltd. (www.kiap.in), India, an organization co-founded by former associates of global Kaizen Sensei Masaaki Imai. With a Bachelor’s degree in Metallurgical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, and a Masters in Business Management in operations management, his initial years were spent in global majors in the aluminium industry including HINDALCO and Pyrotek. After a four-year stint in Deloitte’s process consulting practice he joined KIAP in 2007 and has since worked extensively on more than sixty comprehensive Lean transformations across a wide range of industry sectors, sizes, and geographies. He is an empanelled Lean Expert with the Government of India and successfully led lean implementations in several MSME clusters under the NMCP scheme.  Kalyana C. Chejarla is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Management Technology, Hyderabad. He obtained his PhD from the Indian Institute of Management Lucknow, completed his postgraduate studies from Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad and ICFAI Business School, and holds a B.Sc. (Engineering) from National Institute of Technology Jamshedpur. His areas of interest are operations, logistics and supply chain management, lean and quality management, and business process management. Before moving into academics in 2014, he has worked for about 18 years in the supply chain domain at globally renowned organizations such as Tata Motors, HCL Technologies, Tata Consultancy Services and Dell International Services, working extensively with clients in US and Japan.

Chapter 1. History of Lean Management.- Chapter 2. Lean Management Principles.- Chapter 3. Overview of Small and Medium Enterprises.- Chapter 4. Generic Framework for Lean implementation.- Chapter 5. Commencing the Lean Journey - Diagnosis.- Chapter 6. Designing the Lean Intervention & Developing Project Plan.- Chapter 7. Implementation.- Chapter 8. Post-implementation Monitoring.- Chapter 9. Sustaining Lean.- Chapter 10. Beyond Lean.- Chapter 11. Leveraging Lean to tackle uncertainty.- Appendix – Detailed Case Studies.