The Lean Anthology: A Practical Primer in Continual Improvement Tapa blanda - 2014

Rebecca Goldberg is a strategy and operations consultant with more than a decade of experience. She has extensively published articles and case studies in the Washington Post, Bloomberg Businessweek, Business & Economy, and in the University of Virginia and Columbia University case collections. She writes in the areas of strategy, operations, and technology life cycles, as well as in negotiation, team dynamics, and collaboration. She has consulted with significant global clients in a variety of industries, including health care delivery, pharmaceuticals, consumer goods, integrated technology solutions, professional services, insurance, and the military. She holds an MBA from the Darden School of Business; a BA from Tufts University, magna cum laude with highest thesis honors; and a BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She lives in Richmond, Virginia, with her two sons. Please visit http: //www.goldbergstrategic.com/ for more information.

Elliott N. Weiss is the Oliver Wight Professor of Business Administration at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia. Weiss teaches in the operations area and is the author of numerous articles in the areas of production management and operations research; he has extensive consulting experience, for both manufacturing and service companies, in the areas of production scheduling, workflow management, logistics, total productive maintenance, and Lean implementation. He is the author of over 175 cases and technical notes in the area of operations management.

Before coming to Darden in 1987, Weiss was on the faculty of the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University. He has held visiting appointments at the Graduate School of Management at the University of Melbourne, Australia, and at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is married with four children and one grandchild.