Leadership Characteristics for a Sustainable OPEX-Implementation
Through long-term collaboration with leaders of OPEX initiatives, and by monitoring their initiatives’ development over the years, characteristics of successful leaders – of leaders who have implemented OPEX initiatives themselves, and of those who took t
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eading Pharmaceutical Operational Excellence Outstanding Practices and Cases
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Thomas Friedli • Prabir Basu • Daniel Bellm • Ju¨rgen Werani Editors
Leading Pharmaceutical Operational Excellence Outstanding Practices and Cases
Editors Thomas Friedli Daniel Bellm ITEM-HSG University of St.Gallen St.Gallen Switzerland
Prabir Basu Pharma Manufacturing and cGMP Consultant Mt Prospect, Illinois USA
Ju¨rgen Werani Schuh & Co Komplexita¨tsmanagement AG St.Gallen Switzerland
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Preface
Almost 25 years have gone since we established the expression “lean production” for a set of Japanese techniques which changed the whole competitive landscape of the automotive industry in the 1990s. This in turn led to fundamental changes in how production is managed in industry after industry. Back in 2006, I wrote the foreword to the book Operational Excellence in the Pharmaceutical Industry just as the pharmaceutical industry began its own lean journey
