Lean Practice is a practical guide to building organisations that consistently deliver value while developing the capabilities of their people. For leaders and practitioners working on lean transformation, the book takes a situational approach. It recognises that every organisation must respond to its own unique challenges.

At the heart of the book is the Lean Transformation Framework (LTF), developed by John Shook (Ex. Toyota Senior Manager). The LTF is built around 5 dimensions and 5 questions for effective change: value, work, capability, behaviour, management systems, and culture. It shows you how to align organisational purpose to create more value for customers, whilst developing people at the same time. Born out of avoiding the failures of prior experiences, the LTF is not a list of things to do. Instead, it provides the questions to ask to apply Lean Thinking & Practice successfully to your unique situation.

The 5 dimensions of the LTF help organisations see how their systems operate and where they can improve. Through this framework, this book explains lean thinking and lean practice in a way that connects strategy to execution. As a result, it shows how organisations improve performance by focusing on customer value, strengthening the work, and developing capability through everyday problem solving.

A key feature of Lean Practice is its practical LTF diagnostic tool. The diagnostic enables readers to assess their current state across the 5 dimensions. This therefore helps identify gaps, clarify priorities, and take targeted action to close them based on their specific situation.

Supported by real-world cases, this book helps organisations build capability, improve performance, and sustain change through a learning-based, situational approach to lean transformation.

The authors David Brunt, David Marriott & Peter Watkins have spent more than thirty years learning, applying, experimenting with and reflecting on lean thinking and practice. Throughout that journey, they have worked with many organisations and individuals. In doing so, they have helped organisations improve how they work and deliver greater value to customers.