Preface
Acknowledgments
1 Change Your Lifestyle—Introduce the Wall Street Diet
2 Start Your Diet—Create a Lean Enterprise
3 Reduce Cholesterol and Increase Flow— Streamline Your
Business
4 Lose Weight—Make Your Business Lean
5 Stick to Your Diet—Use Quality for Measurement
6 Chart Your Health—Use Productivity Profiling to Target Gains
7 Don’t Do It Yourself—Outsource to Change Your Lifestyle
8 Adopt a New Lifestyle—Focus on Customer Satisfaction
9 Begin with Healthy Ingredients—Get Beyond the Cultural
Roadblocks
10 Maintain the Gains—Turn the Diet into a Successful Business
Plan
11 Afterword—Get Healthy
Appendix
Bibliography
Index
About the Authors
Chuck Poirier is a recognized authority on supply chain management,
process improvement, e-business techniques, and collaborative use
of technology around the world. He has authored or coauthored
twelve business books, seven of which have been related to
improving supply chain processing. His work has been translated
into nine languages. He is a frequent presenter at national and
international conferences and meetings. With more than forty years'
business experience, including senior-level positions, and the
extensive research conducted for the writing of his many books,
white papers, and position documents, Poirier is comfortable before
any audience seeking help with value chain networks. He has helped
firms in a variety of industries establish the framework for their
supply chains and find the hidden values across the collaborative
networking that can be established. His advanced techniques have
become a hallmark of firms seeking the most benefits from
cross-organizational collaboration.
Mike Bauer has breadth and depth that are unique in today's
compart- mentalized business world. He is a noted author and
speaker, whose "hands-on" approach differentiates him from many
others in the world of business and technology expertise. Bauer is
characterized by tireless en- ergy, boundless curiosity, and the
ability to understand how business and technology trends converge.
He is as comfortable on a plant floor as he is in a board room.
Bauer has spoken and written on a broad range of topics, from
supply chain to lean manufacturing. He is the director of Computer
Sciences Corporation's Lean Enterprise Center and is a CSC Six
Sigma champion.
Bill Houser, president of Integrated Productivity and Quality
Systems, Inc., has a lengthy history helping businesses improve
performance and enhance profitability. He has trained hundreds of
business professionals in the principles of world-class quality and
productivity. Houser has worked with more than one hundred
corporations and government agen- cies in the United States,
Canada, Mexico, and Europe. He is the coauthor of Business
Partnering for Continuous Improvement and has written numer- ous
articles on quality, productivity, and cost improvement. His models
for success have stood the test of time and implementation and are
con- sidered valuable aids in the fight against corporate obesity.
"A business book with a bite! The Wall Street Diet provides the
ingredients for making business changes in your enterprise while
offering a coherent message about business impact and bottom line
results. I recommend this book for senior executives and managers
who want sustained improvement, not the fad of the month."
— Ken C. Bohlen, Executive Vice President and Chief Innovation
Officer, Textron, Inc.
"The authors have done a great job in conveying advanced supply
chain management concepts using a well-known metaphor to which all
levels of management can relate. Providing management checklists
along the way is the masterstroke that will guarantee flawless
execution of the concepts and significant business benefit."
— Larry Lapide, PhD, MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics
"These authors know what business is all about and how to improve
one. Their diet is right on the mark for pinpointing where a
business is working or not, and how to get started on making the
necessary changes. The Wall Street Diet is all about making more
money and keeping customers happy."
—Mike Wells, President, King Machine
“The Wall Street Diet is a triumph in its unique ability to dissect
a complex operation into its simplest elements and identify the
easiest path to improvement. I can personally attest that the
results of the methods mentioned in this book are both real and
lasting. The expertise the authors bring into a manufacturing
environment has provided the impetus for many improvements in
product quality, constraint elimination, and improvements in
efficiency and productivity.”
— Albert R. Klopsic, Vice President, Technical Services and Sales,
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