Books
Best Practices in Lean Six Sigma Process Improvement
By: Richard SchonbergerWhy are some companies highly successful with their lean Six Sigma performance management initiatives, while most are not? Best Practices in Lean Six Sigma Process Improvement shows readers how to get process improvement going, and keep it going for many years. The key is an expended concentration on what are most important to customers, namely [...]
Accounting for World Class Operations
By: Jerry Solomon & Rosemary FullertonFirms need performance measurements that reflect the benefits of change made from implementing Lean practices. Too often those benefits are hidden in outdated accounting reports filled with indecipherable, archaic jargon. The need for a clearer, simpler, more strategic performance measurement system in Lean companies is long past due. Solomon and Fullerton present that roadmap in [...]
Kaizen and the Art of Creative Thinking
By: Shigeo Shingo, Edited by Norman BodekKaizen and the Art of Creative Thinking is a newly discovered classic from Dr. Shigeo Shingo, the original Lean Manufacturing genius. Never before published in English, Kaizen and the Art of Creative Thinking provides the single most important tool for initiating a Lean transformation, Dr. Shingo’s own Scientific Thinking Mechanism. For the first time ever, [...]
Supply Chain Excellence
By: Peter BolstorffThe first resource available presenting the unique Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR) model developed by the Supply Chain Council, the original edition provided readers with an unparalleled guide for implementing best practices in supply chain management. Now thoroughly updated and expanded to include the DCOR and CCOR frameworks. The book includes sample deliverables, tasks, executive [...]
Chain Reaction: How Today’s Best Companies Manage Their Supply Chains
By: Robert MaloneThe rise of Wal-Mart, Dell, IKEA, IBM, UPS, and FedEx has changed the way consumers and businesses function in America. This book takes a look at the successes of these companies and shows how these very different businesses have all come to the same basic plan, leading them to become dominant in their industry. Malone [...]
Real Lean (Volumes 1 and 2)
By: Bob Emilianigo Prize winning author Bob Emiliani explains the purposes, advantages, myths, and misinformation surrounding Lean management. In a lively and engaging style, he answers the key questions that leaders of organizations have about Lean management. A perfect read for the busy executive, each volume is a practical guide to Lean management, complete with interesting and [...]
Lean Cost Accounting
By: Jim HuntzingerHuntzinger has marshaled little-known historical evidence to show how accounting figures came to be a very misleading way to manage a manufacturing company. He proposes abolishing meaningless figures too abstract from reality. Where cost figures are needed, derive them from simple parameter and process-based cost models that correspond with physical reality. This change in thinking [...]
Breaking Through to Flow
By: Ian GlendayIf you want to become truly lean but cannot imagine how to get beyond the fire-fighting associated with constantly changing plans, then this workbook is for you. A growing number of people are recognising that there is a lot more to lean than simply eliminating waste from current processes. But they struggle to see how [...]
Taiichi Ohno’s Workplace Management
By: Taiichi OhnoThis classic work by the founding father of the Toyota Production System returns to print in a new translation. Ohno delivers timeless lessons on how to effectively manage the gemba actual place or work. He relates stories from across his nearly 40 years of struggle to establish the Toyota Production System as both a [...]
Value Stream and Process Mapping
By: Quarterman LeeThis book acquaints the reader with Value Stream Mapping as well as Process Mapping, and thereby provides a dual set of tools. This dual set is far more effective than either technique alone. The Strategos Guide to Value Stream and Process Mapping has helpful tips on facilitating group VSM exercises and helps put VSM in [...]
