Recommended reading
The Lean Office
The Lean Office: Collected Practices & Cases (Insights on Implementation)
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The Lean Office: Collected Practices and Cases is a compilation of articles previously published in our monthly newsletter, Lean Manufacturing Advisor. These articles discuss lean implementations in non-manufacturing operations, from design to processing invoices to customer service. Most articles are written in the form of case studies.
The New Lean Toolbox
The New Lean Toolbox: Towards Fast, Flexible Flow (Spiral-bound)
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This is probably the most comprehensive guide available to the full range of Lean tools and concepts. It serves as a stand-alone guide, or a supplement to Womack and Jones’ classic, Lean Thinking. The book is written in a no-waffle style relevant to everyone (CEO to shop floor, design to customer) in any Lean-aspiring organization requiring basic instruction, inspiration or review.
What Is Lean Six Sigma
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Synopsis
This book provides a quick introduction on how to use Lean Six Sigma to improve your workplace, meet your goals, and better serve your customers. Lean Six Sigma combines the two most important improvement trends of our time: making work better (using Six Sigma) and making work faster (using Lean principles). In this plain-English guide, you'll discover how this remarkable quality improvement method can give you the tools to identify and eliminate waste and quality problems in your own work area.
The Toyota Way
The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from the World's Greatest Manufacturer
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Synopsis
How to speed up business processes, improve quality, and cut costs in any industry? 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 Lean Six Sigma Pocket Toolbook
A Quick Reference Guide to 70 Tools for Improving Quality and Speed
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Intro
Bestselling "Lean Six Sigma" author Michael George provides the first pocket guide for deployers of "Lean Six Sigma". The "Lean Six Sigma Pocket Toolbook" blends Lean and Six Sigma tools and concepts, providing expert advice on how to determine which tool within a "family" is best for different purposes. Packed with detailed examples and step-by-step instructions, it's the ideal handy reference guide to help Green and Black Belts make the transition from the classroom to the field.
Training to See: A Value Stream Mapping Workshop
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When Mike Rother and John Shook first realized the power of value stream mapping in the mid-1990s they began to offer workshops in this invaluable technique. Gradually, through trial and error in dozens of workshops in a wide range of companies and at the University of Michigan, they discovered the best way to teach mapping to groups of managers, engineers, and production associates. Indeed, the insights gained from these workshops made it possible for them to write the Learning to See workbook in a particularly clear style.
