While Lean practices have been successfully implemented into the process industry with excellent results for over 20 years (including the author’s own award winning example at Exxon Chemical), that industry has been especi...

"If there is one key idea to take from this book it is that the ‘on-site clinic’ is a catalyst that allows all other programming to ‘work better’ and to be more coordinated and internally complementary. … We are buying hea...

While there are a growing number of books based on the Toyota Production System, or lean, focused on healthcare, there are very few that detail the tools that make lean more than just a way of thinking and put the methodol...

Proposing that corporations, like human bodies, have vital systems that must be cared for, this book outlines how to monitor these vital organs in a corporation. It provides a roadmap for leaders to plot a course from wher...

The new and revised edition of this modern day classic provides the critical piece that will make any lean transformation a dynamic continuous success. It shows you how to implement a transformation that cannot fail by dev...

This is the true story of how, armed with only Lean improvement methodologies, a specially trained Toyota Lean expert purchased a business he knew nothing about, applied Lean techniques, and succeeded in doubling sales and...