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 The
2011 Shingo Research Prize winning book titles include
Toyota
Kata,
Toyota
Under Fire,
The Lean
Manager,
Stories From My Sensei, and
Follow the Learner. The Shingo Prize was established in
1988. The prize promotes awareness of lean manufacturing concepts and
recognizes companies that achieve world-class manufacturing status. It
is named for Dr. Shigeo Shingo,
who was a leading expert in improving
manufacturing processes. |
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2011 Recipients - Book and DVD
Toyota Kata: Managing People for Improvement, Adaptiveness and Superior Results
Mike
Rother
McGraw-Hill Companies
In Toyota Kata, Mike Rother reveals Toyota's secrets to managing employees. Book discloses two main routines of thinking and acting called kata that Toyota instills in its people, which in turn generate continuous improvement, adaptation, and exceptional results.
While other authors have written books that analyze Toyota's manufacturing principles and the company's approach to efficiency, Rother is the first to devote years of study to Toyota's actual management behavior, revealing the essential kata. Toyota instills an invaluable mindset in its employees at all levels.
Toyota Under Fire: Lessons for Turning Crisis into Opportunity
Jeffrey Liker, Timothy N.
Ogden
McGraw-Hill Companies
Toyota Under Fire takes
you beyond the headlines and
into the offices and
factories of Toyota to
reveal the truth behind the
company's highly publicized
and controversial recall of
nine million vehicles in
2009-2010.
Jeffrey Liker, the world's
leading expert on Toyota
processes and culture, was
granted unprecedented access
to the company's systems and
people. The end result is
the most comprehensive
account available of why the
recall was initiated, what
really precipitated the
problem, and how Toyota
management me the ensuing
challenges to come out
relatively unscathed-lessons
that can be applied to any
management crisis in any
industry.
The Lean Manager: A
Novel of Lean Transformation
Michael Ballé, Freddy Ballé
Lean Enterprise Academy
The book reveals how individuals can go beyond the short-term gains from tools, and realize a deeper, sustainable path of improvement. The Lean Manager, the sequel to the Ballets international bestselling business novel The Gold Mine, tells the compelling story of plant manager Andrew Ward as he goes through the challenging but rewarding journey to becoming a lean manager.
Where The Gold Mine shows you how to introduce a complete lean system, The Lean Manager demonstrates how to sustain it. Ward moves beyond fluency with tools to changing his behavior as a manager and leader. He shifts from giving orders and answers to asking the right questions so people identify and address problems.
Stories from My Sensei: Two Decades of Lessons Learned Implementing Toyota-Style Systems
Steven E. Hoeft
Productivity Press
Stories From My
Sensei provides key insights into how and how-not-to implement
Toyota Production System ( TPS ) principles. Ideal for individual learning
and reflection as well as for use with groups.
In the tradition of Taoist philosophers and Zen masters, Steve Hoeft tells the
stories he learned from his Toyota Production System master teachers. Sometimes
enigmatic, sometimes funny, but always powerful and enlightening, these stories
of continuous improvement and lean implementation are organized around the
Toyota House framework.
Lean IT: Enabling and Sustaining Your Lean Transformation
Steven C. Bell, Michael A.
Orzen
Productivity Press
Lean IT helps IT ( information technology ) and rest of business work
together for continuous improvements to Lean enterprise. Authors provide
diagrams and tables depicting methods, practical examples, and case studies.
The book provides the first comprehensive and definitive resource on Lean IT;
offers tools, methods, and metrics supported by practical examples and case
studies; addresses the intersection of Lean, Six Sigma, and Information Systems;
and illustrates how to apply the principles of Lean to IT operations to achieve
improved quality and performance.
Lean for Systems Engineering with Lean Enablers for Systems Engineering
B.
W. Oppenheim, Bohdan W.
Oppenheim
John Wiley & Sons
The book describes the cutting-edge field of Lean for Systems Engineering and the new intellectual product Lean Enablers for Systems Engineering, LEfSE, a comprehensive checklist of 194 practices of Systems Engineering, focused on creating value without waste in large technological programs.
Follow the Learner: The Role
of a Leader in Creating a
Lean Culture
Sami
Bahri
Lean Enterprise Academy
In his book, Follow the Learner: The Role of a Leader in Creating a Lean Culture, Dr. Sami Bahri describes how he and the staff in his dental practice tackled each of these questions. The book describes how their organization, the Bahri Dental Group, transformed their work and their thinking from a traditional batch-and-queue approach to one focused directly on the needs of the patient, not on the needs of the practitioners. The purpose of Follow the Leader is to present a picture of how any organization can build a culture based on lean principles and tools.
Follow the Learner provides a glimpse into what it means to become a lean learning organization and a leadership model for continuously improving it. People at all levels of lean experience in any type of organization will be able to read this book and better understand the universal application of both lean methods and leadership practices.
Toast Value Stream Mapping DVD
Bruce Hamilton, Patricia
Wardwell
Greater Boston Manufacturing
Partnership, GBMP
Divided into two half-hour training segments, Part 1 of this Toast Value Stream Mapping video lesson examines the current condition (or state) as we follow the toast-making process to understand the material and information flows. Viewers will participate in the observations and the sometimes contentious discussions about what has been observed as GBMP team travels the process upstream to expose system and process problems. You'll learn how to capture both numeric and anecdotal information on paper, and how to achieve a consensus regarding the key points of the current condition.
Previous Research Prize Recipients
- 2012 Award Recipients
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