marts 2009 - Posts

• New Lean Reading List: Shingo Prize Winners Announced

  The recipient's of this year's Shingo Prize have been announced. The Research and Professional Publication Prize category is a great reading list for new lean books: Steven Spear - Chasing the Rabbit. A book on how to catch up with your lean competiors. HBR review here. Mark Graban - Lean Hospitals. The book by the productive author of leanblog.org. John Shook - Managing to Learn. Focuses on Toyota's visual A3 management tool. Professor Peter Hines; Dr. Pauline Found; Gary Griffiths; and Richard Harrison - Staying Lean: Thriving, Not Just Surviving. Jeffrey K. Liker, Michael Hoseus and the Center for Quality People and Organizations - Toyota Culture. Great author, new book. What's not to like? Durward K. Sobek II and Art Smalley - Understanding A3 Thinking. Another winning book on Toyota's A3 tool from Productivity Press. Off to the bookstore! Posted mar 31 2009, 02:46 by Martin Jul with no comments Filed under: lean, books, Shingo Prize