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The Shingo Research Prize recognizes and promotes outstanding research and writing regarding new knowledge and understanding of manufacturing consistent with the philosophy of the Shingo Prize for Excellence in Manufacturing. All the 2007 research prize recipients are listed below.

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2007 Recipients - Books

Hoshin Kanri for the Lean Enterprise: Developing Competitive Capabilities and Managing Profit
Thomas Jackson

This book explains how you can implement, identify and manage the critical relationships among your markets, design characteristics, production systems and personnel to satisfy your customers and beat your competition. Through implementing the mechanics of Hoshin Kanri you can systematically improve your brand equity, implement Lean manufacturing and integrate your suppliers into a Lean organization.

 Inside the Mind of Toyota: Management Principles for Enduring Growth
Satoshi Hino

This book examines the fundamental thinking and management structures that underlie the creation of the famed Toyota Production System. Hino presents a fresh and detailed analysis of Toyota's essential management system, where the goal is not simply to mimic Toyota's formula, but to learn from it and, in doing so, surpass it.

Lean Software Strategies: Proven Techniques for Managers and Developer
Peter Middleton and James Sutton

The authors show how the most advanced concepts of Lean production can be applied to software development and how current software development practices are inadequate. Middleton and Sutton draw on their personal experiences, as well as research on various software companies applying Lean production to software development programs.

The Toyota Product Development System: Integrating People, Process, and Technology
James Morgan and Jeff Liker

Based on years of research, the book organizes Toyota's high powered product development system into 13 fundamental principles, provides in-depth analysis of Toyota's process, presents numerous real world examples and tools, and proposes a model of lean product development that can be applied in all industries.

The TWI Workbook: Essential Skills for Supervisors
Patrick Graupp and Robert Wrona

This workbook helps teach how to apply a four-step method for the three most essential tasks people in management positions must perform: Job Instruction, Job Methods, and Job Relations. The workbook uses plain language and simple illustrations to describe each detail of the step-by-step approach to the three respective programs.  It transcribes the TWI Manuals of the Department of Defense into a much more user friendly workbook.