This is Lean

Synopsis of This is Lean

«This is Lean: Resolving the Efficiency Paradox» is the management essay by Niklas Modig and Pär Åhlström, published by Rheologica Publishing in paperback.

Explains in clear language and with examples what Lean really is, a widely used but often misunderstood management philosophy. It introduces the efficiency paradox: obsessing over using resources to the maximum increases non-value-adding work and ends up being less efficient; the book proposes how to resolve that contradiction.

English edition of 2012, with 172 pages; the work was originally published in Swedish as 'Vad är lean? En guide till kundfokus och flödeseffektivitet' in 2011.

Aimed at executives, middle managers and operations professionals who want to understand and apply the Lean philosophy in their organizations.