Publications

• Articles
• Books

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Articles

Visit this page often to view articles we’ve published and worthy reads by colleagues: 

• The Trust Factor
  by Karen Martin, Industrial Engineer
• On Lean Enterprise and its Healthcare Implications
  by Karen Martin, Journal for Healthcare Quality
• Kaizen Events:  Achieving Rapid and Dramatic Improvement through Focused Attention and Team-Based Solutions 
  by Karen Martin, Society for Health Systems Newsletter
• Lean Thinking for Knowledge Work
  by Matthew May, Quality Journal
• Staple Yourself to an Order
  by Benson Shapiro et. al, Harvard Business Review
• Taking Back the Weekend
  by Sue Shellenbarger, Wall Street Journal
• A Manager's Guide to Implementing Lean
  Interview with early Lean adopter, George Koenigsaecker, Manufacturing & Technology News
• Learning to Lead at Toyota
  by Steven Spear, Harvard Business Review

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Books

Lean Philosophy

• The Toyota Way, Jeffrey Liker, 2005
• Lean Thinking, Jim Womack & Daniel Jones, 2003
• Leading the Lean Enterprise Transformation, George Koenigsaecker, 2009

A3 Management

• Understanding A3 Thinking, Durward Sobek & Art Smalley, 2008
• Managing to Learn: Using the A3 Management Process to Solve Problems, Gain Agreement, Mentor, and Lead, John Shook, 2008

Value Stream Mapping

• The Complete Lean Enterprise: Value Stream Mapping for Administrative and Office Processes, Beau Keyte & Drew Locher, 2004
• Learning to See, Mike Rother and John Shook, Lean Enterprise Institute, 2003

Kaizen Events

• The Kaizen Event Planner: Achieving Rapid Improvement in Office, Service, and Technical Environments, Karen Martin & Mike Osterling, 2007

Process Mapping

• Metrics-Based Process Mapping: An Excel-Based Solution, Karen Martin & Mike Osterling, 2008

Trending Topics in General Business Management

• In Pursuit of Elegance, Matt May, 2009
• Drive: The Surprising Truth about What Motivates Us, Daniel Pink, 2009
• The Elegant Solution: Toyota's Formula for Mastering Innovation,Matthew May, 2006

Miscellaneous Lean Topics

• Whaddya Mean I Gotta Be Lean?, Jeff Hajek, 2009
• Real Numbers, Jean Cunningham et. al, 2003
• Practical Lean Accounting, Brian Maskell & Bruce Baggaley, 2003
• Who’s Counting, Jerrold Solomon, 2003

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