Book Review

Book Review: Value Stream Mapping 0
- Book Review
- May 14, 2014
Value Stream Mapping is a foundational approach to visualizing your systems to optimize value through focused improvements. My good friend Karen Martin and Mike Osterling present a detailed guide to this approach in their book Value Stream Mapping. Karen and Mike attempt to address 3 common gaps in value stream mapping (VSM): 1) Unfamiliarity with
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Book Review: Strength-Based Lean Six Sigma 0
- Book Review
- April 16, 2014
One of the aspects of being a vocal Lean practitioner I enjoy is the frequent request for editorial/book reviews. I find great value in continuously learning. I want to share a recent review with you. Strength-Based Lean Six Sigma: Building Positive and Engaging Business Improvement is a valuable and insightful book written by David Shaked.
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Book Review: Jim Womack’s Gemba Walks Expanded 2nd Edition 0
- Book Review
- April 9, 2014
My good friends at the Lean Enterprise Institute sent me Jim Womack’s newest book Gemba Walks Expanded 2nd Edition. In a significantly expanded second edition of his popular Gemba Walks book Jim Womack illustrates the power of rooting improvement efforts in deliberate visits to the “gemba,” a Japanese word for the place where value is
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Book Review: Toyota Way to Continuous Improvement 0
- Book Review
- June 12, 2013
Jeffrey Liker is at it again with another addition. Building upon his international bestselling Toyota Way series of books, The Toyota Way to Continuous Improvement looks critically at lean deployments and identifies the root causes of why most of them fail. The Toyota Way to Continuous Improvement by Liker and Franz is a result of
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Book Review Toyota Way Lean Leadership 0
- Book Review
- June 4, 2013
You can’t be Lean with Lean Leadership. The tools are easy to copy but without the people and the leadership they are useless. Understanding the people aspect of Toyota is the real challenge, until now. Jeffrey Liker and Gary Convis have made this possible with The Toyota Way to Lean Leadership. The combination of Jeff’s
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Book Review: Anatomy of a Lean Leader 0
- Book Review
- May 21, 2013
Are you looking for a Lean leadership model for your organization? In Anatomy of aLean Leader Jerry Bussell draws from his rich lifetime of learning and wealth of stories from the gemba to weave together important lessons from exemplary lean leaders. In his book, Bussell identifies ten characteristics that he claims are essential for a
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