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Lean Thinking: Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation, Revised and Updated

9/14/2021

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Lean Thinking
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By: James P. Womack and Daniel T. Jones

The authors begin by summarizing the five inherent principles in any lean system:
  1. Correctly specify value so you are providing what the customer actually wants.
  2. Identify the value stream for each product family and remove the wasted steps that don't create value but do create muda (waste).
  3. Make the remaining value-creating steps flow continuously to drastically shorten throughput times.
  4. Allow the customer to pull value from your rapid-response value streams as needed (rather than pushing products toward the customer on the basis of forecasts).
  5. Never relax until you reach perfection, which is the delivery of pure value instantaneously with zero muda. (The first part of Lean Thinking devotes a chapter to each of these principles.)

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The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from the World's Greatest Manufacturer

8/6/2021

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The Toyota Way
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   In factories around the world, Toyota consistently makes the highest-quality cars with the fewest defects of any competing manufacturer, while using fewer man-hours, less on-hand inventory, and half the floor space of its competitors. The Toyota Way is the first book for a general audience that explains the management principles and business philosophy behind Toyota's worldwide reputation for quality and reliability.

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Lean Production Simplified

6/14/2021

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Lean Production Simplified
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  Following in the tradition of its Shingo Prize-winning predecessors, Lean Production Simplified gives a clear overview of the structure and tools of the Lean production system. Written for the practitioner by a practitioner, it delivers a comprehensive insider's view of Lean management. 

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The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses

5/12/2021

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The Lean Startup
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​  Eric Ries defines a startup as an organization dedicated to creating something new under conditions of extreme uncertainty. This is just as true for one person in a garage or a group of seasoned professionals in a Fortune 500 boardroom. What they have in common is a mission to penetrate that fog of uncertainty to discover a successful path to a sustainable business.

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A Revolution in Manufacturing: The SMED System

2/1/2021

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SMED
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  Written by the industrial engineer who developed SMED (single-minute exchange of die) for Toyota, A Revolution in Manufacturing provides a full overview of this powerful just in time production tool. 

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Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die

12/31/2020

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Made to Stick
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By: Chip Heath and Dan Heath

  Mark Twain once observed, “A lie can get halfway around the world before the truth can even get its boots on.” His observation rings true: Urban legends, conspiracy theories, and bogus public-health scares circulate effortlessly. Meanwhile, people with important ideas–business people, teachers, politicians, journalists, and others–struggle to make their ideas “stick.”   ​
  • Why do some ideas thrive while others die?
  • And, how do we improve the chances of worthy ideas? ​

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The Lean Turnaround: How Business Leaders Use Lean Principles to Create Value and Transform Their Company

12/3/2020

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The Lean Turnaround
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By: Art Byrne

  Lean isn't just for manufacturing anymore . . .Few business leaders in the world have applied Lean strategy as successfully as Art Byrne has--and none has the ability to explain how to do it with such succinctness and clarity.

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Kaizen: The Key To Japan's Competitive Success

11/24/2020

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Kaizen
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By:Masaaki Imai

For the professional manager or student of management, a comprehensive handbook of 16 Kaizen management practices that can be put to work.

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The Spirit of Kaizen: Creating Lasting Excellence One Small Step at a Time

11/16/2020

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Kaizen
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By: Robert Maurer

Today’s businesses love the idea of revolutionary, immediate change. But major “disruptive” efforts often fail because radical change sets off alarms in our brains and shuts down our power to think clearly and creatively.  There is, however, a more effective path to change. Change that is lasting and powerful. Change that begins with one small step . . .

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The Toyota Way to Lean Leadership: Achieving and Sustaining Excellence through Leadership Development

11/7/2020

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The Toyota Way to Lean Leadership
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By: Jeffrey K. Liker, Gary L. Convis

  The missing link to long-term Lean success! Despite the fact that companies worldwide have adopted Lean production, none has sustained the same levels of excellence as Toyota. Why? Leadership. In The Toyota Way to Lean Leadership, Jeffrey Liker and Gary L. Convis, a former executive V.P. and managing officer of Toyota, help executives and senior managers get employees to refocus their efforts--from simply performing their singular function to continuously improving in collaboration across the organization. Case studies from Toyota clearly illustrate the methods that create powerful, effective Lean leadership. Jeffrey Liker, author of the popular Toyota Way books, is the acknowledged expert on Toyota processes. ​

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The Toyota Mindset, The Ten Commandments of Taiichi Ohno

10/16/2020

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The Toyota Mindset, The Ten Commandments of Taiichi Ohno
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  From the brilliant mind of a legend in the Lean Manufacturing world comes the reasoning behind the importance of using your intellect, challenging your workers and why continuous improvement is not only a helpful tool but a necessity on the shop floor.

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The Machine That Changed The World

5/21/2020

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By: James P. Womack, Daniel T. Jones and Daniel Roos

​ Management expert James P. Womack, Ph.D., is the founder and senior advisor to the Lean Enterprise Institute, Inc., a nonprofit training, publishing, conference, and management research company chartered in August 1997 to advance a set of ideas known as lean production and lean thinking, based initially on Toyota’s business system and now being extended to an entire lean management system.


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Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant

5/20/2020

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Blue Ocean Strategy
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By: W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne

  This global bestseller, embraced by organizations and industries worldwide, challenges everything you thought you knew about the requirements for strategic success. Now updated with fresh content from the authors, Blue Ocean Strategy argues that cutthroat competition results in nothing but a bloody red ocean of rivals fighting over a shrinking profit pool. Based on a study of 150 strategic moves (spanning more than 100 years across 30 industries), the authors argue that lasting success comes not from battling competitors but from creating “blue oceans”—untapped new market spaces ripe for growth.

Blue Ocean Strategy presents a systematic approach to making the competition irrelevant and outlines principles and tools any organization can use to create and capture their own blue oceans. This expanded edition includes:

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Toyota Talent: Developing Your People the Toyota Way

4/2/2020

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Toyota Talent
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By: Jeffrey K. Liker and David Meier

Toyota doesn't just produce cars; it produces talented people. In the international bestseller, The Toyota Way, Jeffrey Liker explained Toyota's remarkable success through a 4P model for excellence-Philosophy, People, Problem Solving, and Process. ​Liker, with coauthor David Meier, provided deeper insight into the practical application of the principles in The Toyota Way Fieldbook. Now, these authorities on Toyota reveal how you can develop talented people and achieve incredible results in your company.

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