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

Kaizen Events

• The Kaizen Event Planner: Achieving Rapid Improvement in Office, Service, and Technical Environments, Karen Martin & Mike Osterling, 2007
• The Kaizen Blitz, Anthony Laraia et. al, 1999
• Kaizen Event Implementation Manual, Geoffrey Mika, 2005
• Kaizen Desk Reference Standard, Raphael Vitalo et. al, 2003

Lean Accounting

• Real Numbers, Jean Cunningham et. al, 2003
• Practical Lean Accounting, Brian Maskell & Bruce Baggaley, 2003
• Who’s Counting, Jerrold Solomon, 2003

Lean Organizational Culture

• Creating a Lean Culture: Tools to Sustain a Lean Culture, David Mann, 2005.
• Lean Culture: Collected Practices and Cases, Ralph Bernstein (editor), 2005.

Lean Healthcare

• The Lean Healthcare Pocket Guide, Debra Hadfield and Shelagh Holmes, 2006

Lean Philosophy

• Lean Thinking, Jim Womack & Daniel Jones, 2003
• The Toyota Way, Jeffrey Liker, 2005
• The Elegant Solution: Toyota's Forumula for Masterling Innovation,Matthew May, 2006
• 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, Coming Summer 2008

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