Lean Production transformed the way that companies think about production and manufacturing. This book provides a new challenge. It arises from the work of the Lean Aerospace Initiative at MIT and provides a new agenda and bold vision for the aerospace industry to take it out of crisis. It also redefines and develops the concept of Lean as a framework for enterprise transformation and this will be relevant and critical for all industries and enterprises.

The 21st-century enterprise challenge -- The Cold War legacy -- Monuments and misalignments -- Lean thinking -- Islands of success -- Lean enterprises -- A value-creation framework -- Program value -- Value in corporate and government enterprises -- Value at national and international levels -- Future value.