Lean Books, Websites & Blogs

•Gemba Kaizen by Masaaki Imai

•Lean Thinking by James P. Womack and Daniel T. Jones

•Learning To See by Mike Rother and John Shook

•Lean Production Simplified by Dennis Pascal

•Real Numbers by Jean E. Cunningham

•The Toyota Way by Dr. Jeffrey Liker

•Office Kaizen by William Lareau

•Toyota Production System by Taiichi Ohno

•Lean Design Guidebook by Ronald Mascitelli

•Practical Lean Accounting by Brian Maskell, Bruce Baggaley, and Larry Grasso

•Out Of The Crisis by W. Edwards Deming

•Creating a Lean Culture. Tools to Sustain Lean Conversions by David Mann

•Lean Hospitals by Mark Graban

•Measuring Quality Improvements In Healthcare by Raymond G. Carey and Robert C. Lloyd

•Today and Tomorrow by Henry Ford

•The Critical Chain by Eliyahu M. Goldratt

•The Goal by Eliyahu M. Goldratt

•Leading Change by John P. Kotter

•The Toyota Way Fieldbook by Dr. Jeffrey Liker and David Meier

WEBSITES

ThedaCare - Center for Healthcare Value

They have many valuable resources such as Whitepapers, monthly newsletters, videos and webinars... all for free.

Association for Manufacturing Excellence (AME)

This is North America’s premier organization for the exchange of knowledge in Organizational Excellence

through the implementation of techniques such as Lean Tools, Leadership, Lean Product Development,

Lean Supply Chain and Lean Accounting. The website offers:

• ·         Full list of events
• ·         Lean and other Manufacturing Excellence tools

Greenleaf Center

The Greenleaf Center is an international non-profit organization headquartered in Indiana.

The Center promotes the understanding and practice of servant leadership. The website offers:

• ·         Links to conferences and educational events
• ·         An introduction to "servant leadership"
• ·         An online store

Lean Enterprise Institute (LEI)

They have a very simple objective at LEI: They try to describe in plain language the fundamental ideas of lean thinking.

The website has multiple uses, some highlights are:

• ·         Interactive users forums covering many different topics
• ·         Extensive knowledge center with topics broken up by Lean tool and/or Industry
• ·         Education center
• ·         Store for Lean resources

Society for Manufacturing Engineers (SME)

The mission of SME is to acquire and distribute manufacturing knowledge among its members

and the broader manufacturing community.  The website has many functions, some of the key elements are:

• ·         Professional development courses and certification programs
• ·         Knowledge center for all kinds of fields
• ·         Jobs and career locating services
• ·         Extensive list of industry events

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Showcasing how Lean applies to all types of governmental processes. Be sure to look at:

• ·         Extensive list under “quick links” for all kinds of Lean thinking that is typically outside the normal thinking, for example “Lean And Chemicals Toolkit”
• ·         Downloadable tool kits for many environmental topics

Boeing Frontiers Online

Lean for Government

Gemba Lean Management

BLOGS

Daily Kaizen

About this blog: “We intend to tell our Lean healthcare stories and reflect with you about our learning’s.”  However, they often discuss Lean issues not related to healthcare.

Gemba Tales

General Lean thinking blog, wide range of topics

Improve With Me

Project management and Continuous Improvement focus

Jamie Flinchbaugh

Blog on lean culture, transformational leadership, and entrepreneurial excellence

Lean For Everyone

Focuses on Lean “everywhere” including at home.

Lean Leadership

Business management improvement and general Lean focus

Old Lean Dude

A Blog About Understanding TPS and Gaining Its Full Benefits, brought to you by "The Toast Guy"

Squawk Point

The Squawk Point is about service operations and their ability to make things far more complicated than they really need to be.

The Think Shack

The Think Shack tries to connect Lean thinking to everyday life

Visual Management Blog

Highlights visual management in project management and other common settings

Lean.org

Sharing Experiences, Learning from Others

VIDEOS

Herman Miller and Toyota

2 second Lean videos: An extensive collection of quick and easy improvements made at Fastcap

Miscellaneous Lean Videos: hundreds of lean manufacturing, six sigma, factory tour, and general business videos

Leading Rockwell Collins’ Lean Transformation  

Introduction to lean six sigma methods: Extensive collection of Lean related videos

Lean Thinking in Healthcare        

Creating Value in a Volatile World

Lean Manufacturing in Die Shop

Bahnhof market              

Japanese way of folding T-shirts

Lean Manufacturing (TPS) One Piece Flow Simulation

Lean Manufacturing on World Business Review

Lean Government City of Cape Coral 

The famous “Toast” video

Six Sigma.net Videos