Books
The Lean Entrepreneur
By: Brant Cooper, Patrick Vlaskovits, Eric RiesYou are not a Visionary . . . yet. The Lean Entrepreneur shows you how to become one. Most of us believe entrepreneurial visionaries are born, not made. Our media glorify business outliers like Bezos, Branson, Gates, and Jobs as heroes with X-ray vision who can look to the future, see clearly what will be, [...]
The Mastery of Innovation
By: Katherine RadekaBy Katherine Radeka What do Ford Motor Company, Steelcase, Scania, Goodyear, Novo Nordisk, and Philips Electronics have in common? They all need to get their best ideas to market as fast as possible. They need to achieve the mastery of innovation. When these companies needed to accelerate time-to-market, get more new products to customers, and [...]
Workplace Management – Special 100th Birthday Edition
By: Taiichi OhnoBy Taiichi Ohno and Forward by Fujio Cho Commeorating the 100th birthday of Taiichi Ohno. Businesses worldwide are successfully implementing the Toyota Production System to speed up processes, reduce waste, improve quality, and cut costs. While there is widespread adoption of TPS, there is still much to be learned about its fundamental principles. This unique [...]
The Harada Method
By: Norman Bodek & Takashi HaradaBy Norman Bodek & Takashi Harada His newest book, The Harada Method is the next step in Norm’s on-going learning about finding more effective ways to improve. Takashi Harada developed an effective approach for helping people to become more self-reliant and more successful in their lives. Much of his theory is based on sound research [...]
Unleashing the Power of 3P
By: Dan McDonnell & Drew LocherRecent improvements at Enterride’s Trail Rider Memphis Operation bought Pete Grant, the Trail Rider Plant Manager, and his team a little more time, but Pete knew much more was needed to save the plant. They needed a breakthrough, a true game changer. Then someone told Pete about a process called 3P that could lead to [...]
Metrics-Based Process Mapping
By: Karen Martin and Mike OsterlingMetrics-Based Process Mapping (MBPM) is a tactical-level, visual mapping approach that enables improvement teams to make effective, data-based decisions regarding waste elimination and measure ongoing process performance. The mapping technique, often used to drill down from a value stream map, integrates the functional orientation of traditional swim-lane process maps with time and quality metrics that [...]
The Laws of Subtraction
By: Matthew E. MayThe Laws of Subtraction features contributions by over 50 highly regarded thinkers, creatives, and executives. On Law #1: What Isn’t There Can Often Trump What Is “When you reduce the number of doors that someone can walk through, more people walk through the one that you want them to walk through.” — SCOTT BELSKY, founder [...]
The Lean Turnaround
By: Art ByrneFew 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. Famous for turning around the wire management company Wiremold, where he rethought every aspect of operations from the customer’s standpoint–and got everyone else in [...]
Healthcare Kaizen – Engaging Front Line Staff in Sustainable Continuous Improvements
By: Mark Graban and Joseph SwartzHealthcare Kaizen focuses on the principles methods of daily continuous improvement, or “Kaizen,” for healthcare professionals and organizations. Kaizen is a Japanese word that means “change for the better,” popularized by Masaaki Imai in his 1986 book KAIZEN and through the books of Norman Bodek, both of whom contributed introductory material for this book. In [...]
The Outstanding Organization
By: Karen MartinAfter two decades in the trenches of helping companies design and build better, more efficient operations, Karen Martin has pinpointed why performance improvement programs usually fail: Chaos, the sneaky but powerful force that frustrates customers, keeps business leaders awake at night, and saps company morale. In The Outstanding Organization, Karen offers a toolbox for combating [...]
