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Contents Acknowledgments..................................................................................xi Introduction—The Confusion of the Tongues.................................. xiii Chapter 1 Lean Wireless Is Already Here.......................................... 1 Rules Before Tools........................................................................4 Complex Business Environments Require Technology for Visibility........................................................5 Lean Leaders Embrace Wireless...........................................6 To Ignore Wireless Tools Is to Forgo Progress....................8 Wireless in Lean and Six Sigma............................................9 The Marriage of Lean and Six Sigma......................................13 Lean’s New Neighbor—Wireless..............................................14 Wireless on the Value Stream..............................................15 The Wireless Tsunami...............................................................17 Wireless = Modern................................................................18 The Wired to Wireless Progression................................... 20 Wireless, Near and Far.........................................................21 The Retail Driver...................................................................23 Wireless Growth Is a Step-Change Evolution...................25 Brace Yourself: Wireless Momentum Will Only Quicken..............................................................27 Surprise—The Modern Network Is Already Here—We Need Only Plug In................................................. 28 How Lean Is This?.................................................................29 Endnotes......................................................................................32 Chapter 2 Why Now? Lean Wireless and the Costs of Doing Business.................................................................. 35 The Unbearable Cost of Business.............................................35 The Immovable Structural Costs.............................................36 The Tax Burden.....................................................................37 v
vi • Contents A More Inclusive Picture—Variable Costs.............................39 The Lean, Wireless, and Lean Wireless Value Propositions...................................................................40 Information Is Lean...................................................................41 America and Its Companies Require Wireless Strength..... 42 American Companies Require Near-Term Results (Not Solutions)............................................................. 44 Wireless Provides Fast-Track ROI..................................... 44 Automation Means More Work—Not Less............................45 Endnotes..................................................................................... 46 Chapter 3 The Lean Wireless Missions............................................ 47 Adopt a New Paradigm: Rules Before Tools = Results........ 48 Tools Before Rules Is a Mistake...........................................51 Attack Wireless Waste (iMuda)...........................................51 iMuda......................................................................................52 The iMuda of Complexity and Overkill............................ 54 The iMuda of Choice............................................................ 56 True Tales of Bad Choices: The Super Bowl Virus.......... 56 True Tales 2: The Accidental Spy........................................57 The iMuda of Risk 2.0...........................................................57 The iMuda of Terabytes........................................................59 Overcome the Inertia of Legacy...............................................61 Focus First upon Internal Value Streams...............................63 Identify Opportunities for Wireless Value.............................65 Value from Mobile Workers and Equipment................... 66 Create Job-Specific and Micro-Value Streams..................69 Apply Airsourcing as You Would Outsourcing or Offshoring..........................................................................70 Return to Processes, and Mobilize Them..........................71 Plug Value Streams into the “Internet of Things”.................72 The Intent of the Internet of Things...................................73 Redirect the Lean Mission from Making Things to Moving Things.....................................................74 The Internet of Computers versus the IOT........................75 RTLS and WSNs....................................................................76 The 5Ws versus 5Ss...............................................................77
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