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Books
Here are some books that we find interesting and some of them can be ordered through us.
LEAN HANDBOKEN - Swedish translation of "The Complete Lean Enterprise"
"Review your organization, create flow and visualize your improvement work. Start by mapping all your valuestreams! It is high time to also review the administrative processes."
Conny Svensson Operations Manager Parker Hannifin AB, Board member Lean Forum
Use experienced outside help at the beginning, but beware of those who want to do the work for you!
The book (translation by Lean Concepts )covers approx. 135 pages, price SEK 347 + handlingcharges and VAT; Order through: info@leanconcepts.se
Challenge your processes!
Thoughts and principles for effective use of resources - introduction to Lean Administration and Services.
Lean Concepts has published a booklet in cooperation with Lean Forum and IVF Industrial Research and Development Corporation to give an overview of Lean Thinking and Methods. The objective has been to enable the most busy decision maker to get a quick insight into Lean Thinking - management philosophy- and work methods, which are indispensable if the objective is to achieve increased competitiveness. Currently the booklet is only available in Swedish.
The booklet covers approx 40 pages with 17 of them as pictorials, price SEK 150 + handling and shipping charges; order through: info@leanconcepts.se
Value Stream Management for the Lean Office
Eight Steps to Planning, Mapping, and Sustaining Lean Improvements in Administrative Areas
Administrative functions represent up to 80 percent of the cost of doing business. Eliminating costly waste from administrative and office functions is a great way to increase your profit margin and a vital part of creating a total lean enterprise.
Bring Lean Improvements to the Administrative Areas of Your Organization!
Tapping and Shuker take their Value Stream Management Storyboard and apply its eight-step process in the context of a customer service case study based on an actual implementation. Value Stream Management for the Lean Office will provide you with a complete system for lean implementation in the office. Price on demand.
Value Stream Management
Eight Steps to Planning, Mapping, and Sustaining Lean Improvements
Value Stream Management is a complete system that provides a clear path to lean implementation, ensuring quick deployment and great benefits. Value Stream Management-Eight Steps to Planning, Mapping, and Sustaining Lean Improvements shows you how to use mapping as part of a complete system for lean implementation.
Bring Lean Improvements to the Administrative Areas of Your Organization!
Tapping and Shuker take their Value Stream Management Storyboard and apply its eight-step process in the context of a customer service case study based on an actual implementation. Value Stream Management for the Lean Office will provide you with a complete system for lean implementation in the office. Price on demand.
The Complete Lean Enterprise by Beau Keyte
Beau Keyte and Drew Locher's new book, The Complete Lean Enterprise: Value Stream Mapping for Administrative and Office Processes, offers a step-by-step approach to applying lean initiatives to the administrative and office environment.
It's a must read for leaders looking to improve their production support activities within their order-to-cash value stream.
The Complete Lean Enterprise is a valuable tool in applying value stream mapping (VSM) to non-production areas, identifying office wastes, establishing performance metrics, speeding up administrative workflow, and improving office efficiency. Price on demand.
Managing to Learn – Using the A3 management process to solve problems, gain agreement, mentor, and lead (John Shook)
Many people familiar with A3 reports primarily see them as a simple communication or problem-solving tool, but they are so much more. The process by which a company identifies, frames, acts, and reviews progress on problems, projects, and proposals can be found in the structure of the A3 process. The model by which an organization learns is embodied in the A3 process, and the form itself is representative of how a culture carries this out.
In Managing to Learn you will follow the story of a manager and his report which will reveal how the A3 can be used as a management process to create a standard method for innovating, planning, problem-solving, and building structures for a broader and deeper form of thinking – a practical and repeatable approach to organizational learning. Price on demand.
LEAN THINKING
Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation
James P. Wormack and Daniel T. Jones
Simin & Schuster
LEAN SOLUTIONS
How Companies and Customers Can Create Wealth Together
James P. Wormack and Daniel T. Jones
Free Press
TOYOTA KATA
Managing People For Improvement, Adaptiveness, and Superior Results
Mike Rother
Mc Graw Hill
THE BIRTH OF LEAN
Conversations with Taiichi Ohno, Eiji Toyoda, and other figures who shaped Toyota management
Koichi Shimokawa and Takahiro Fujimoto (Eng. översättning: Brian Miller/John Shook)
Lean Enterprise Institute
THE TALENT CODE
Greatness isn´t born. It´s grown. Here´s how.
Daniel Coyle
Bantam Books
BUILT TO LAST
Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
Jim Collins
Harper Business
GOOD TO GREAT
Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don´t
Jim Collins
Collins
HOW THE MIGHTY FALL
And Why Some Companies Never Give In
Jim Collins
Harper Collins
TOYOTA CULTURE
The Heart and Soul of the Toyota Way
Jeffrey K. Liker & Michael Hoseus
Mc Graw Hill
BEYOND BUDGETING
How Managers Can Break Free from the Annual Performance Trap
Jeremy Hope & Robin Fraser
Harvard Business School Press
PRACTICAL LEAN ACCOUNTING
A Proven System for Measuring and Managing the Lean Enterprise
Brian Maskell & Bruce Baggaley
Productivity Press
EVERYTHING I KNOW ABOUT LEAN I LEARNED IN FIRST GRADE
Robert O. Martichenko
www.leancor.com
PROFIT BEYOND MEASURE
Extraordinary Results through Attention to Work and People
H.Thomas Johnson & Anders Bröms
The Free Press
ANDY & ME
Crisis and Transformation on the Lean Journey
Pascal Dennis
Productivity Press
THE LEAN BUSINESS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
Lean Accounting: Principles & Practices Toolkit
Brian Maskell, Bruce Baggaley, Nick Katko & David Paino
BMA Inc.
LEAN PRODUCT AND PROCESS DEVELOPMENT
Prologue by John Shook and Durward Sobek
Allan C. Ward
Lean Enterprise Institute
UNDERSTANDING A3 THINKING
A Critical Component of Toyota´s PDCA Management Thinking
Durward K. Sobek II and Art Smalley
CRC Press
MAKING HOSPITALS WORK
How to improve patient care while saving everyone´s time and hospitals´ resources
Marc Baker and Ian Taylor with Alan Mitchell
Lean Enterprise Academy
HARD FACTS, DANGEROUS HALF-TRUTHS & TOTAL NONSENSE
Profiting From Evidence-based Management
Jeffrey Pfeffer & Robert I.Sutton
Harvard Business School Press
News
Lean Introduction, Basic Training and Lean Ledarship 2012
Lean Introduction 27/2 cancelled
Lean Introduction starts 12/3 in Gothenburg
Lean Basic Training starts 5/3 in Stockholm
Lean Ledarship starts 29-30/3 in Stockholm
followed by ...
Lean Summit Africa 2010
Lean Concepts are invited by Lean Institute Africa, in October 6-8, to participate. More information and prgram will follow.