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June 2017 | ISE Magazine 17 Both the seen and the unseen affect your enterprise's operations. And globalization has amplified those potentially invisible issues of communication, distance and culture. Samuel Yankelevitch, who has spent more than 30 years managing operations in international environments, points out how a plant's barriers and bottlenecks often ex- ist outside of its four walls. Global Lea : Seei g the New Waste Rooted i ommu icatio , Dista ce a d Culture examines how humans must solve problems by coordinating with other humans, hence the importance of communication. The rise of multinational operations means those teams must communicate while sitting in geographically separated places. Misunderstandings inhibit clarity and introduce unbudgeted costs. Yankelevitch highlights the waste these interactions create and shows how lean thinking provided methods, approaches and real case studies to eliminate these prob- lems at the source. As organizations transform into global networks, lean initiatives must now meet new needs. The book follows a CEO and his company that, while successful in their local environment, get hit by new obstacles when they expand internationally. It illustrates how they adopt lean methodologies to bring hidden problems to the surface. Global Lea : Seei g the New Waste Rooted i ommu icatio , Dista ce a d Culture is published by CRC Press ($31.96). Lean makes the unseen seen Author highlights waste in communication, distance and culture Book of the Month Pay it Forward — Make a Donation to the IISE Scholarship Fund The IISE Scholarship Fund recognizes indus- trial and systems engineering students' academic excellence and campus leadership. Last year, IISE awarded more than $50,000 in scholarships. Nick Loree is currently pursuing his master's degree in ISE at Ohio University. He was the 2016-17 recipient of the John S.W. Fargher Jr. scholarship. Visit www.iise.org/PlannedGiving to make a donaƟon today. As an undecided college freshman at Ohio University, I was unsure of how I wanted to apply my love of math and problem-solving in a degree that fit my interest. Luckily, I took an introduction to engineering class that exposed me to ISE. Here was a program that developed technical skills applicable to almost any industry so I never get bored. Thanks in large part to the John Fargher scholarship from IISE, I am able to pursue my master's degree in ISE, where I am working on research that varies from process improvement, to safety and ergonomics, to post-disaster humanitarian logistics. After graduation, I hope to find a job where I can use the technical skills I learned in ISE to make people's lives better, no matter the situation."