Table of Contents

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

About the Author

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.

Reviews

"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, EKCO Products