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Augmented Lean: A Human-Centric Framework for Managing Frontline Operations
Explore the real future of work in this expert tech implementation guide that goes beyond automation In Augmented A Human-Centric Framework for Managing Frontline Operations , serial startup founder Dr. Natan Linder and futurist podcaster Dr. Trond Arne Undheim deliver an urgent and incisive exploration of how to facilitate agile processes amongst a millennial workforce that already lives by many of its tenets. The book demonstrates how to abandon legacy industrial technology that is failing modern operations and hindering operational excellence and digital progress. As an executive and leader, you cannot fall prey to hyped-up notions of industry 4.0's factory of the future automation, artificial intelligence, internet of things, sensors, digital twins, and augmented reality fixing every problem. Instead, to truly reduce cognitive load, complexity, and frustrations in the workplace, we must build cyber-physical technologies so that humans remain at the center. Leaders must ensure that the technology they deploy at an industrial scale has fluid interfaces that demonstrably simplifies work and makes operations more flexible without introducing fear, uncertainty, or doubt. The authors A thoroughly practical playbook for augmenting your workforce with the latest cyber-physical adaptations to digital technologies, Augmented Lean provides you with the organizational-, process-, and management-level techniques you need to get the most out of your employees. In turn, as an operator, engineer, or industrial worker reading this book, you will become empowered to be a change agent through no-code interfaces instead of remaining a recipient of endless training demands and ever-increasing technological complexity. Augmented Lean will orient you towards the future with the most effective tools to cut through hype so you can instantly apply your learnings and be productive wherever you currently operate.
416 pages, Hardcover
Published October 18, 2022
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November 7, 2022
As Stevo’s Novel Ideas, I am a long-time book reviewer, member of the media, an Influencer, and a content provider. I received this book as a free review copy from either the publisher, a publicist, or the author, and have not been otherwise compensated for reviewing or recommending it. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.
This book was Stevo's Business Book of the Week for the week of 11/6, as selected by Stevo's Book Reviews on the Internet and Stevo's Novel Ideas. Explore the real future of work in this expert tech implementation guide that goes beyond automation.
In "Augmented Lean," a startup specialist and a futurist stress that humans are still at the core of manufacturing automation, and the augmented lean approach helps managers and workers create a cyber-physical framework requiring fewer specialized tech skills (such as no-code) while integrating meaning, metrics, and content.
This is one of the few books that is as much for frontline workers as it is for managers. Through an abundance of examples, interviews, and case studies, the authors offer an empowering vision of frontline workers who are finally prioritized, empowered, and admired.
This is a must-read for anyone involved in manufacturing automation.
Find more Business Books of the Week on my Goodreads Listopia page at https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/9..., and find many more reviewed and recommended books and products by searching for me on Google.
This book was Stevo's Business Book of the Week for the week of 11/6, as selected by Stevo's Book Reviews on the Internet and Stevo's Novel Ideas. Explore the real future of work in this expert tech implementation guide that goes beyond automation.
In "Augmented Lean," a startup specialist and a futurist stress that humans are still at the core of manufacturing automation, and the augmented lean approach helps managers and workers create a cyber-physical framework requiring fewer specialized tech skills (such as no-code) while integrating meaning, metrics, and content.
This is one of the few books that is as much for frontline workers as it is for managers. Through an abundance of examples, interviews, and case studies, the authors offer an empowering vision of frontline workers who are finally prioritized, empowered, and admired.
This is a must-read for anyone involved in manufacturing automation.
Find more Business Books of the Week on my Goodreads Listopia page at https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/9..., and find many more reviewed and recommended books and products by searching for me on Google.
January 23, 2023
Natan Linder and Trond Arne Undheim know approximately how the future frontline operations will work.
In their book, Augmented Lean A Human Centric Framework for Managing Frontline Operations, they reveal how augmentation will be a composite of technology and human centered work to improve businesses in the future.
Augmented Lean is a process that combines human and technology to increase and improve frontline productivity. The authors describe augmentation as, "The process gives them easy access to tools and technology needed to do their jobs, rather than relying explicitly on technology to boost productivity."
Augmentation is a perfect way to combine speed and operation of technology with the ingenuity and analysis of human workers. Linder and Undheim demonstrate how augmentation worked in different companies and how their productivity soared because of this practice.
Besides companies, the authors discuss the education and training that frontline workers would require to commit to such tasks. The workers learn to use the technology and are able to strategically think about possible solutions.
One of the more interesting chapters is one that takes Readers through a timeline that leads to augmentation. From industrialization, to assembly line production, to automation, to technology, to augmentation. These changes show how businesses and workers adjusted each time to the ever-changing landscape of frontline working. They learned new skills, adjusted management techniques, and transitioned with what needed to be done. Augmentation is the most recent practice that requires such adjustment and transitions.
In a world where companies are changing and evolving by allowing employees to work remotely and having flexible hours, augmentation would be great means to adjust to the "New Normal." Augmented Lean shows that human and technology can both be applied. Neither has to be sacrificed.
In their book, Augmented Lean A Human Centric Framework for Managing Frontline Operations, they reveal how augmentation will be a composite of technology and human centered work to improve businesses in the future.
Augmented Lean is a process that combines human and technology to increase and improve frontline productivity. The authors describe augmentation as, "The process gives them easy access to tools and technology needed to do their jobs, rather than relying explicitly on technology to boost productivity."
Augmentation is a perfect way to combine speed and operation of technology with the ingenuity and analysis of human workers. Linder and Undheim demonstrate how augmentation worked in different companies and how their productivity soared because of this practice.
Besides companies, the authors discuss the education and training that frontline workers would require to commit to such tasks. The workers learn to use the technology and are able to strategically think about possible solutions.
One of the more interesting chapters is one that takes Readers through a timeline that leads to augmentation. From industrialization, to assembly line production, to automation, to technology, to augmentation. These changes show how businesses and workers adjusted each time to the ever-changing landscape of frontline working. They learned new skills, adjusted management techniques, and transitioned with what needed to be done. Augmentation is the most recent practice that requires such adjustment and transitions.
In a world where companies are changing and evolving by allowing employees to work remotely and having flexible hours, augmentation would be great means to adjust to the "New Normal." Augmented Lean shows that human and technology can both be applied. Neither has to be sacrificed.
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January 21, 2023
Hack The System
The book gives good historical context, while it lays out a vision for the future of manufacturing. The authors are advocates of facilitating manufacturing workers to hack their system, in order to improve it. This contrasts with a conventional view where the equipment or factory is more central to the manufacturing story, where the workers are expected to keep the system within its optimal operating parameters. The book unfortunately does not have very deep examples to support its claims and proposals. It states that some people used a tool to achieve a benefit, but doesn’t get to explain how the tool is used, or how the benefit is related.
The book gives good historical context, while it lays out a vision for the future of manufacturing. The authors are advocates of facilitating manufacturing workers to hack their system, in order to improve it. This contrasts with a conventional view where the equipment or factory is more central to the manufacturing story, where the workers are expected to keep the system within its optimal operating parameters. The book unfortunately does not have very deep examples to support its claims and proposals. It states that some people used a tool to achieve a benefit, but doesn’t get to explain how the tool is used, or how the benefit is related.
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