Publications
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
Books
Kaizen Events
- The Kaizen Event Planner: Achieving Rapid Improvement in Office, Service, and Technical Environments, Karen Martin & Mike Osterling, 2007
A3 Management
- Understanding A3 Thinking, Durward Sobek & Art Smalley, 2008
- Managing to Learn, John Shook, 2008
Lean Accounting
- Real Numbers, Jean Cunningham et. al, 2003
- Practical Lean Accounting, Brian Maskell & Bruce Baggaley, 2003
- Who’s Counting, Jerrold Solomon, 2003
Lean Philosophy (and related topics)
- The Toyota Way, Jeffrey Liker, 2005
- Lean Thinking, Jim Womack & Daniel Jones, 2003
- In Pursuit of Elegance, Matt May, 2009
- The Elegant Solution: Toyota's Forumula for Masterling Innovation,Matthew May, 2006
- Whaddya Mean I Gotta Be Lean?, Jeff Hajek, 2009
- Office Kaizen, William Lareau, 2003
Value Stream Mapping
- The Complete Lean Enterprise, Beau Keyte & Drew Locher, 2004
- Value Stream Mapping for the Lean Office, Don Tapping & Tom Shuker, 2003
- Learning to See, Mike Rother and John Shook, Lean Enterprise Institute, 2003
Process Mapping
- Metrics-Based Process Mapping: An Excel-Based Solution, Karen Martin & Mike Osterling, 2008
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