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Featured Lean Books

July 31, 2010

 
 
Liquid Lean: Developing Lean Culture in the Process Industries                                                                                                                                                                                                Liquid Lean: Developing Lean Culture in the Process Industries

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...

 
 
Listening to the Voice of the Market: How to Increase Market Share and Satisfy Current Customers                                                                                                                                                              Listening to the Voice of the Market: How to Increase Market Share and Satisfy Current Customers

Typically, when companies want to improve their products, they go to their customers. But why not reach further and explore the entire market? In this eye-opening book, Eric Reidenbach goes beyond the "voice of the custome...

5S for Healthcare                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             5S for Healthcare

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...

 
Corporate Sigma: Optimizing the Health of Your Company with Systems Thinking                                                                                                                                                                                  Corporate Sigma: Optimizing the Health of Your Company with Systems Thinking

One study after the next shows that most employees are unhappy with their jobs and that less than a third actively engage with their work. That means that two out of every three are merely putting in their time, rather tha...

Creating a Lean Culture: Tools to Sustain Lean Conversions, Second Edition                                                                                                                                                                                    Creating a Lean Culture: Tools to Sustain Lean Conversions, Second Edition

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...

 
Mr. Lean Buys and Transforms a Manufacturing Company: The True Story of Profitably Growing an Organization with Lean Principles                                                                                                                               Mr. Lean Buys and Transforms a Manufacturing Company: The True Story of Profitably Growing an Organization with Lean Principles

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...

Flexibility: Flexible Companies for the Uncertain World                                                                                                                                                                                                       Flexibility: Flexible Companies for the Uncertain World

We are in an era of high volatility and uncertain outcomes, driven by accelerating technologies, shortened product cycles, fast-changing information, an increasingly mobile workforce, more demanding customers, complex fina...

 
Lean Safety: Transforming your Safety Culture with Lean Management                                                                                                                                                                                            Lean Safety: Transforming your Safety Culture with Lean Management

While worker safety is often touted as a company’s first priority, more often than not, safety activity is driven by compliance to legislation rather than any safety improvement initiative. Lean takes a proactive approach ...

 
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