8/8/2019 Lean book recommendation summary

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Do you know a good and practical book about implementing Lean?

That was the question is raised at several groups at LinkedIn. Below you will find the feedback from the variousmembers bundled. All feedback is made anonymus as I do not know if anyone would be offended to havehis/her name mentioned here. Should you be interested to get in contact with a certain person then you can askme to act as liaison. I will be happy to do so.

The bundle of information below is comprising of three colums: name of the book and its author, a shortdescription of what the book is about and the number of times the title is mentioned in the feedback. Based onthe assumption that more often recommended books may have more value this will add value to this bundle.

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"The LEAN manager M. Ball It is not so much about technical LEAN tools, but more aboutgetting LEAN thinking into managers head

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"The Goldmine" M. Ball This book is more about the tools, while the "lean manager" ismore about the lean thinking.

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"Liquid Lean" Raymond Floyd Il lustrated with his own success stories, Floyd describes businessresults, Lean enterprise thinking, and policy deployment inprocess industry terms. He offers detailed theory, practice, andexamples of continuous process improvement, and describes theleadership and defines the ethics needed to evolve and sustainLean transformation

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"The Toyota way; 14 Management Principlesfrom the World's Greatest Manufacturer" Jeffrey K. Liker

The Toyota Way, explain's Toyota's unique approach to Lean--the14 management principles and philosophy that drive Toyota'squality and efficiency-obsessed culture. You'll gain valuableinsights that can be applied to any organization and any businessprocess, whether in services or manufacturing. Professor JeffreyLiker has been studying Toyota for twenty years, and was givenunprecedented access to Toyota executives, employees andfactories, both in Japan and the United States, for this landmarkwork

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"New shopfloor management" Suzaki Drawing on the principles of holistic management, Suzakidemonstrates how modern shop floor management techniques,focusing energy on the front line, can lead to improvements inproductivity and value-added-to-services. He argues that the roleof management is to teach skills to workers.

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"The Goal" Goldratt Although not really about lean, it is about value streams andbottleneck thinking.

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The Lean Enterprise Memory Jogger A good tool to use when running projects 1

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http://www.leaninstituut.nl/index_oud.htm Lean info and also workshops and literature lists. 1

Theory of Contraints Eliyahu Goldratt 1

Lean Thinking James Womack The authors claim to show how lean thinking with a new definitionof value can breathe life into a company or economic activity,

doubling productivity and sales whilst stabilizing employment, byproviding a step by step plan based on in depth studies of fiftylean companies around the world.

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Author: Marc-paul van Eijl

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