Title Page -- CIP data -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Pretest: What Do You Know? -- Foreword -- The Boo-chair-A Forbidden Tune -- Chapter 1: The Narrator -- Rest/Reflect/Relate (R3) -- Chapter 2: Farm-iliar Territory -- Lean Acres -- The Farmer -- The F.A.T. -- Rest/Reflect/Relate (R3) -- Chapter 3: Losing the Farm -- The Bark Is Worse . . . -- To Listen and To See -- Rest/Reflect/Relate (R3) -- Chapter 4: Growing a Strate-Tree -- The Strate-Tree -- Step 1: Assessment -- SWOT -- Stakeholders -- Customers -- The Voices -- Step 2: Aim -- Mission -- Core Competencies -- Values -- Vision and Goals -- Step 3: Alignment -- Objectives and Targets -- Step 4: Assignment -- Ownership and Accountability -- Step 5: Awareness -- Rest/Reflect/Relate (R3) -- Chapter 5: Born in a Barn -- Step 6: Academics -- 7S and the Visual Barnyard -- Step 7: Action -- Busted Baskets and Bags -- Sloppy Spare Parts -- Crazy Corn Carts -- Making the Yard Work -- Rest/Reflect/Relate (R3) -- Chapter 6: A Lean Diet -- Step 6: Academics -- Customer Value -- Value Stream -- Flow -- Pull -- Step 7: Action -- Current State -- Lean Application -- Future State -- Rest/Reflect/Relate (R3) -- Chapter 7: Skimming Six Sigma -- Step 6: Academics -- Precision and Accuracy -- Percentages versus Parts per Million Opportunities -- Quality In = Quality Out -- Step 7: Action -- Setting the Course -- Confirming Confidence -- Distributing Results -- A Measure of Milk -- Capturing Capability -- Digging Up Roots -- Fixin' to Fix It -- Making It Stick -- Rest/Reflect/Relate (R3) -- Chapter 8: Cracking Constraints -- Step 6: Academics -- Working Through the Chain -- Identify the Need -- Set the Goal -- Target the Constraint -- Exploit the Constraint -- Subordinate Everything -- Elevate the Constraint -- Evaluate Results -- Step 7: Action -- Present Problem -- Capturing Capacity.

Egg-regious Effects -- Delving Deeper -- Protected Pace -- Greater Gains -- Rest/Reflect/Relate (R3) -- Chapter 9: Business Process Reengineering for Ewe -- Step 6: Academics -- Target the Process -- Analyze the Current State -- Design the Future State -- Conduct a Gap Analysis -- Engage the Transition Plan -- Step 7: Action -- Know the Need -- Map and Measure -- Shoot for the Stars -- Plot the Path -- Fly Forward -- Rest/Reflect/Relate (R3) -- Chapter 10: You Reap What You Sow -- Rest/Reflect/Relate (R3) -- Posttest: What Have You Learned? -- Afterword -- Test Answer Key -- References -- About the Author -- Index.