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Consulting and Training
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Lean Leadership
If you are seeking to develop lean leaders within your company, the following
books can help you understand the essentials of lean leadership and learn some
effective approaches to training leaders.
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Toyota Production
System (Ohno) With Productivity Press' classic books, you learn
from the masters. Taiichi Ohno is considered the inventor of the Toyota
Production System and lean manufacturing. And in his book Toyota Production
System, the creator of just-in-time production reveals the origins, daring
innovations and ceaseless evolution of the Toyota Production
System. $45.00
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Fast Track to
Waste-Free Manufacturing Fast Track to Waste-Free
Manufacturing will give you step-by-step directions to making rapid, lasting
changes. John Davis has created 4 new drivers of waste-free manufacturing (WFM),
linking them in order, so you know the sequence and when it is time to move to
the next driver. He covers nearly every aspect of the lean revolution and
provides essential tools and techniques you will need to implement
WFM. $45.00
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Leading the Lean
Initiative This "how-to" manual tackles the "soft" side of
implementing lean. Learn how to lead a lean effort and effectively manage
change. $45.00
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Kaizen for the
Shopfloor Prepare your entire workforce to truly benefit from
your next kaizen event! Now you can give your frontline employees the
information they need to understand, plan, and implement kaizen. Other Shopfloor Series books can also
be used as training materials. $25.00
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Lean Culture
Creating and sustaining a lean culture is critical to the long-term success
of a lean strategy. These books can help you achieve that goal.
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Training Within Industry
Training Within Industry, by Donald Dinero, explores a crucial piece of a Lean
initiative that has been overlooked throughout U.S. industry. The Training Within Industry
(TWI) program - developed by the United States during World War II - has been used by Toyota for decades!
This powerful program standardizes training processes and assists front-line
supervisors in teaching new operations to workers quickly and effectively.
$40.00
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Inside the Mind of Toyota
This book clarifies the principles through which any
enterprise or organization can learn to attain its own sustained growth. The
ultimate goal is not to simply mimic Toyota's formula, but to learn from it and,
in doing so, surpass it.
$50.00
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Creating a Lean Culture
Creating a Lean Culture helps lean leaders
succeed in their personal batch-to-lean transformation. It provides a practical
guide to implementing the missing links needed to sustain a lean implementation.
David Mann provides critical guidance on developing and using the key elements
of a lean management system, including: leader standard work, visual controls,
daily accountability processes, maintaining a process focus, managing key HR
issues, and much more.
$35.00
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Lean Culture (Insights on Implementation)
Provides a variety of case studies, all focus on cultural issues, ranging from the role of top management, to
training and development of workers and managers, to building buy-in and to
sustaining the culture.
$15.00
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Lean Strategy
Aligning all activities within your business in a coordinated lean strategy
is challenging. These books can help you understand how to make that
happen.
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Transforming
Strategy into Success Transforming Strategy into Success
introduces lean principles to the realm of corporate leadership and management.
Selected as one of the best books for 2004 by Industrial Engineer
Magazine, December 2004.
$35.00
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Implementing a Lean Management System Consolidate all your improvement systems into a
single coherent process that reaches beyond zero waste. Deploy your vision,
long-term development planning, and policy targets to all levels of daily
activity in your company.
$75.00
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Manufacturing Strategy, 2nd edition
Incorporating comments and suggestions from
managers who used the first edition of Manufacturing Strategy,
John Miltenburg expands and improves on his focus in the areas of International
Manufacturing, Competitive Strategy , and Manufacturing
Programs.
$58.00
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Creating Lean Corporations
This book is for business process managers
(especially lean leaders) who seek to reengineer their business processes using
lean principles.
$35.00
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Using Lean for Faster Six Sigma Results
If you are struggling with the dilemma
of how to integrate Lean and Six Sigma, or deciding which approach
to use, read this practical, down-to-earth book to inspire and guide your
strategy.
$40.00
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