Books
The Toyota Way Fieldbook: A Practical Guide for Implementing
Toyota’s
4Ps, Jeffrey K. Liker and David Meier, The McGraw-Hill Companies,
2006
The authors state their book “is an attempt to clarify
the thought process used by Toyota and how those ideas are applied
and used to create the tremendous success Toyota has achieved” and
the critical role TWI has in the area of employee training since
1951.
Toyota Talent: Developing Your People the Toyota Way, Jeffrey
K. Liker and David P. Meier, McGraw-Hill, 2007
This book walks
you through the methodology used by Toyota to grow high-performance
individuals from within with a focus on TWI Job Instruction Training.
Toyota Culture, Jeffrey K. Liker and Michael Hoseus, McGraw-Hill, 2008
The authors provide an inside story on creating and maintaining a people-centric culture that sustains consistent growth, innovation, profitability, and excellence.
The TWI Workbook: Essential Skills
for Supervisors, Patrick Graupp and Robert J. Wrona, Productivity
Press, 2006.
Written in a practical, easy-to-understand style that
is directed at first-line supervisors with a strong focus on getting
them to learn how to put the TWI methods into use.
Today and Tomorrow, Henry Ford, Reprint Edition by Productivity
Press, 2003
Taachi Ohno freely acknowledges that his close reading
of Henry Ford was the key stimulus to his creating the Just-in-Time
manufacturing system.
Leading Change, John P. Kotter, Harvard Business
School Press, 1996
Learn why transformation efforts fail and a
roadmap for people to talk about transformation, change problems,
and change strategies for success.
Corporate Creativity: How Innovation
and Improvement Actually Happen, Alan G. Robinson and Sam Stern,
Barrettt-Koehler Publishers, Inc., 1997, 1998
A practical guide
to promoting creativity in companies.
Kaizen: The Key to Japan’s
Competitive Success, Masaaki Imai, McGraw-Hill, 1986
The author
organizes the management philosophies, theories, and tools that
have been developed and used over the years in Japan under the
single concept of KAIZEN.
Gemba Kaizen: A Common Sense, Low-Cost
Approach to Management, Masaaki Imai, McGraw-Hill Publishing Company,
1997
How to focus the result-boosting techniques of kaizen in the
workplace (Gemba), the place where the products or services are
performed.
Becoming Lean: Inside Stories of U.S. Manufacturers,
edited by Jeffrey K. Liker, Productivity Press, 2004 CEO’s,
consultants and managers provide insight into what it takes to
succeed in implementing lean.
Continuous Improvement in Operations:
A Systematic Approach to Waste Reduction, Alan Robinson, Productivity
Press, 1991
This book provides the understanding that is essential
to effectively organize and implement a journey of continuous improvement.
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