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The Toyota Mindset The Ten Commandments of Taiichi Ohno

The Toyota Mindset The Ten Commandments of Taiichi Ohno

From the brilliant mind of a legend in the Lean Manufacturing world comes the reasoning behind the importance of using your intellect challenging your workers and why continuous improvement is not only a helpful tool but a necessity on the shop floor. Mr. Wakamatsu recounts captivating first hand experiences with the man who changed the way the world looks at manufacturing. | The Toyota Mindset The Ten Commandments of Taiichi Ohno

GBP 28.99
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Health Tech Rebooting Society's Software Hardware and Mindset

Health Tech Rebooting Society's Software Hardware and Mindset

Health Tech: Rebooting Society's Software Hardware and Mindset fulfills the need for actionable insight on what’s truly driving change and how to become a changemaker not just affected by it. The book introduces anybody who wishes to understand how global healthcare will change in the next decade to the key technologies social dynamics and systemic shifts that are shaping the future. Healthcare futurist investor and entrepreneur Trond Arne Undheim describes the complex history of public health why it’s so complicated and what the major challenges are right now. He includes a discussion of COVID why it happened the cultural factors that have slowed down traditional public health measures and how innovation can help. He also discusses what is happening in health systems around the world as a result of the pandemic. The book explores certain health tech measures tools (basic medical devices gradually being upgraded and digitally enhanced) processes and innovations that are already working well along with others that are in their infancy such as AI wearables robotics sensors and digital therapeutics. The book describes the movers and shakers in the healthcare system of the future from startups to patient and service providers as well as the health challenges of our time including pandemics aging preventive healthcare and much more. The book concludes with a look at how health tech may bring about the biggest opportunity to transform healthcare for decades to come. | Health Tech Rebooting Society's Software Hardware and Mindset

GBP 27.99
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Classic Kaizen Workshop Facilitator Guide

Classic Kaizen Workshop Facilitator Guide

Enna's Classic Kaizen Workshop Facilitator Guide is designed with all company employees in mind and for you to perform the workshop away from the shop floor. When it comes to creating a Kaizen mindset within your organization effective communication and training are paramount. The key to sustaining continuous improvement within a Kaizen system is having the ability to train and conduct a Kaizen workshop internally. For this to take place internal trainers require a practical and information rich guide to maximize their efforts.

GBP 240.00
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Fostering Innovation How to Develop Innovation as a Core Competency and Connect the Principles of Lean in Your Organization

Fostering Innovation How to Develop Innovation as a Core Competency and Connect the Principles of Lean in Your Organization

While innovation can be defined in many ways the author sees it as a process. It is not the sudden eureka moment in the middle of the night nor is it a clear and linear path towards a final destination. Instead it involves a strong sense of creativity and curiosity. An innovative mind has a natural inclination towards out-of-the-box thinking. It involves a willingness to try something new without fear or judgment to develop something no one else has ever articulated. While the mindset comes naturally it requires fuel to keep it running. Innovators are voracious readers and researchers. They feed their mindset all of the fuel it needs to stay informed and relevant in their field. Many of the same things can be said for the Lean mindset. Lean management doesn’t happen overnight and it is very rarely a clear and linear path to true Lean thinking. Some might consider Lean a subset of innovative thinking while others see it in reverse. Regardless of the relationship’s directionality one thing is certain: You cannot have one without the other. This book follows John Riley the CEO of a medium-sized valve company just outside of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania who will stop at nothing to create an innovative work environment. Through the ups and downs of his journey he learns a number of Lean and innovative skills strategies and mindsets to help him build the business he’s always envisioned for himself. Throughout the book you see examples of both strong and poor innovative leadership skills demonstrated by each of the main characters. The key messages are ones that help leaders build and access a mindset insistent on continuous improvement. Leadership techniques and abilities that bolster creative thought and problem-solving are the most successful throughout this book. To be truly innovative you can never stop driving the learning process. For this to happen leaders need to recognize when there is a need for a change or improvement. This is the beauty of the marriage between Lean and innovation: They both require continuous learning and growth. The desire to improve is only one piece of this equation however. The other is the willingness to act. Without both of these factors true innovation will always be out of reach. | Fostering Innovation How to Develop Innovation as a Core Competency and Connect the Principles of Lean in Your Organization

GBP 30.99
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Lean Mfg Workshop Facilitator Guide

Lean Mfg Workshop Facilitator Guide

Enna's Lean Manufacturing Workshop Facilitator Guide is designed with all company employees in mind. It enables you to perform workshops in-house. When it comes to creating a Lean mindset within your organization effective communication and training are paramount. With the importance of a Lean Mfg program the key to sustaining continuous improvement is having the ability to train and conduct a Lean workshop internally. For this to take place internal trainers require a practical and information rich guide to maximize their efforts. | Lean Mfg Workshop Facilitator Guide

GBP 240.00
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The Four Philosophies of Lean Maintaining a Customer-Focused Culture Every Day at Work

The Four Philosophies of Lean Maintaining a Customer-Focused Culture Every Day at Work

This book provides a comprehensive look at four driving philosophies of lean methodology that many companies struggle to understand. Companies often adopt lean methodologies and work hard to perfect the use of those methods while never understanding the true intent of the method. Ultimately knowledge does not equal understanding. Customer First is about each manufacturing process sending the next manufacturing process a high-quality defect-free product every time. When people hear the word customer their mindset is thinking about the end user but when a company understands that every process has a customer a high-quality product is produced at each stage of the manufacturing process. As kids most of us grew up hearing the phrase respect your elders and while this still applies respect for people has additional and stronger connotations. In business the work content must fit the capacity – in lay terms a fair day’s work for a fair wage. Setting up our colleagues for failure by giving them more work content than can be completed is not showing them respect and in essence it is simply disrespectful. In addition respect is how we develop and engage our colleagues in their daily work. The idea Go and See is often overlooked because we know the process in which the problem exists but if we evaluate what is actually happening we generally find that what should be happening isn’t. As people view what is happening questions will come to mind: how does the operator know to do that? Does the standard work give that knowledge? These questions lead to giving clarity about the problem and will drive the thinking to a solution. Business in general is dynamic and ever changing. Companies must be able to adapt overcome and improvise to remain competitive. The challenge is identifying where to target or how to develop a continuous improvement culture in the workforce to drive improvement. Companies get stuck in the mindset of this is how we have always done it and this mindset can be a very limiting or even crippling situation. The Four Philosophies of Lean: Maintaining a Customer-Focused Culture Every Day at Work helps readers change mindsets and solve difficult situations. | The Four Philosophies of Lean Maintaining a Customer-Focused Culture Every Day at Work

GBP 30.99
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The Basics of Process Improvement

The Basics of Process Improvement

Unlike other books that promote a specific process and performance improvement discipline this book shows organizations how to achieve success by fixing basic operational issues and problems using a broad and wide-sweeping process-based toolkit. In addition it helps individuals who have worked in stale- or siloed-thinking enterprises make the transition to a process or improvement-oriented culture and teaches those who are unfamiliar with process tools to look at their work with a new lens and adopt a continuous improvement and analytical-thinking mindset. The authors have successfully used the various methods tools and concepts found in this book to overcome practical daily problems at various organizations. This book will surely help operators managers practitioners and executives who are charged with improving processes and workplace culture produce better products and services. | The Basics of Process Improvement

GBP 180.00
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Lean Development and Innovation Hitting the Market with the Right Products at the Right Time

Lean Development and Innovation Hitting the Market with the Right Products at the Right Time

Using Toyota's principles for product and process development this book focuses the implementation of the Lean system during the past 10 years in dozens of corporations across various industries. The book highlights all steps on the journey from common trouble area to remarkable results. As it is written by a manager for other managers it contains real work discoveries and insights. The author provides case studies from many different fields of application. The reader gains insight on US and European companies that successfully streamlined their innovation and product-development processes. These companies have overcome difficult periods and major challenges thanks to the ability to innovate with new Lean methodologies and above all a new workplace culture and mindset. The goal of this book is to help managers successfully apply Lean principles in the innovation and development area of their company while benefitting from the author's lessons learned during his many years of capitalized experience. This book provides a comprehensive framework that supports step-by-step the successful application of Lean principles in the innovation and development areas of the company. Readers learn how to drastically reduce the time required to develop products and discover and eliminate hidden costs and critical waste while increasing value for customers. | Lean Development and Innovation Hitting the Market with the Right Products at the Right Time

GBP 31.99
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The Art of Compassionate Business Main Principles for the Human-Oriented Enterprise

The Art of Compassionate Business Main Principles for the Human-Oriented Enterprise

There are several well-ingrained assumptions regarding the dynamics of work and business activities which can be refuted. Some examples of these widespread assumptions in business and work environments are employees being viewed as commodities competitors perceived as threats companies’ resources seen as limited and customers perceived as scarce and difficult. All this leads to the question: Is there a way to perform business activities more humanely? The second edition of this book challenges the reader to change the way they perform in business situations and become more focused on the human aspects of business activities. The users of this knowledge and those affected by them will undergo a profound transformation in the way they perform business activities. They will benefit from gradually testing and implementing the guidelines conveyed in this book both in the business environment and in the workplace. When readers put these principles into practice positive ripple effects are bound to affect other stakeholders of the organisation they work for or own. The author has refreshed all the concepts and examples introduced in the first edition which include aspects related to mission and vision passion business mindset organisational learning improvement of business conversations use of constructive criticism and betterment of relationships with the most relevant stakeholders (customers suppliers intermediaries community employees etc. ). The author also includes a discussion of creativity and the innovation process as well as other relevant aspects related to a healthy business environment and provides various real-life examples of companies which have adopted a loving attitude towards their stakeholders – which has become so important in the current business environment. | The Art of Compassionate Business Main Principles for the Human-Oriented Enterprise

GBP 38.99
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Thriving at the Edge of Chaos Managing Projects as Complex Adaptive Systems

Thriving at the Edge of Chaos Managing Projects as Complex Adaptive Systems

For many organizations the way in which projects are managed is a fundamental factor in how well they can prosper in today’s marketplace. Unfortunately the current solutions available to companies for managing projects are proving to be increasingly ineffective in a complex world that is becoming more and more dynamic and unpredictable. Organization’s pay for this complexity in delayed time-to-market slow response to customer needs and decreased productivity. While tweaking the current project management paradigm may provide some minimal gains to have a real impact requires a fundamental change in mindset. New business models like Uber and AirBnB show us that the most efficient operations in today’s business environment behave like complex adaptive systems (CAS) where self-managing participants following a set of simple rules organize themselves to solve incredibly complex problems. Instead of trying to function like a well-oiled machine where things work like clockwork companies like Uber function more like an organism that is alive and constantly changing. They fully embrace the characteristics of a CAS. Viewing an organization as a complex adaptive system drives a radically new philosophy of project management that is much better suited to the needs of the 21st-century organization and can provide the quantum leap improvement in project production that we are looking for. This book exposes the assumptions underlying the accepted paradigm of project management describes the common practices that are based on those assumptions analyzes why these practices are unhelpful and even harmful and proposes an alternative sometimes seemingly counter intuitive approach to project management based on CAS thinking. By the end of the book the reader will have a completely new perspective on the way projects can be managed in their organization and how they can quickly start reaping the benefits provided by a CAS-driven management methodology and supporting toolset that is more in tune with today’s business demands - and that turns complexity into a competitive advantage. | Thriving at the Edge of Chaos Managing Projects as Complex Adaptive Systems

GBP 31.99
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Giving Wings to Her Team A Novel About Learning to Coach the Toyota Kata Way

Giving Wings to Her Team A Novel About Learning to Coach the Toyota Kata Way

Denise dreamed of being the kind of leader who empowered and engaged her people but was becoming frustrated and disillusioned. Denise - a fast-rising young consultant at a large advisory firm - lands a job as a manager in industry. Crisis strikes as low-cost competitors take market share and general chaos generates late shipments. Denise goes into Lean consulting mode but quickly learns her supervisors are not buying it. They're not engaged and they find the Lean tools confusing and a distraction from their goals of getting product out. It's going to take some magic - magic that's available to you the reader too! Come with Denise on a journey of discovery and skill development as she moves beyond the tools and concepts of Lean and focuses on daily practice that helps her supervisors achieve their goals. It's about an approach called Toyota Kata that helps anyone develop and apply scientific thinking - an exploratory mindset of curiosity and experimentation. A mentor from an unlikely place appears and shares with Denise how to coach her team. Once her supervisors dig into real problems they face every day they begin to engage. Step by step with insightful inputs from her mentor Denise starts developing the skills to become a coaching manager. She watches her team meet their current challenges and be ready for more. When you teach and practice scientific thinking and coaching skills you give wings to your team and new worlds of opportunity open up. If you're a manager you'll identify with how the team in this story goes beyond general preaching about best practices to practicing how to get to where they want to be. If you're a Lean practitioner frustrated with applying tools with a limited half life you'll learn how to develop people so they can achieve their most important goals and keep going. And if you're already a Toyota Kata practitioner well . you will love this book! | Giving Wings to Her Team A Novel About Learning to Coach the Toyota Kata Way

GBP 24.99
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Throughput Economics Making Good Management Decisions

Throughput Economics Making Good Management Decisions

Schragenheim Camp and Surace three leaders of TOC community are tackling one of value destroyers of corporations—the misuse and abuse of traditional cost accounting. This book develops a practical methodology for better decision making by looking at the impact of certain types of decisions on a company’s bottom line. This well-defined methodology allows mid-managers higher level managers and financial staff to create real value by concentrating on what truly matters. Boaz Ronen Professor Emeritus Coller School of Management Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv IsraelThroughput Economics is a must read for entrepreneurs and managers who want to make their organizations more and more antifragile. Andrea Zattoni CEO of Antifragility ItalyManagement accounting is a dry topic. Throughput Economics is not—managers can learn a lot they can apply to their company from it. Rudolf Burkhart Business Development Director Vistem Gmbh GermanyThroughput Economics challenges the current thinking of how to evaluate cost risks and rewards of any deal or any other new market opportunity being considered especially the practice of calculating cost-per-unit. Instead this book offers a process that directly answers the critical question: If we accept the proposed decision will the performance of the organization improve?The process involves the intuition of the key people in the organization together with the relevant data to come up with the best available information from which to form a reasonable range of net profit when the considered decision is added on top of all the other activities undertaken by the organization. The process is explained and demonstrated using a variety of cases where the organization faces a new non-trivial idea along with a detailed explanation of how it should work including software support that provides very quick response to many what-if suggestions. This book offers a new and well-defined process applicable to every organization that considers both financial impacts and capacity limitations and also includes the impact of uncertainty by providing the range of reasonable results rather than one number which is always proven wrong in the end. Overall the book provides a holistic method for simplified decision making in seemingly complex or shifting environments using a constraints mindset to facilitate companies’ realization for the first time their true potential. | Throughput Economics Making Good Management Decisions

GBP 31.99
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Transforming Leader Paradigms Evolve from Blanket Solutions to Problem Solving for Complexity

Transforming Leader Paradigms Evolve from Blanket Solutions to Problem Solving for Complexity

An easy read with clear examples and engaging stories this book is a treat for leaders who are interested in totally transforming the way they work. Luckman and Flory help leaders and organizations shift from a solutions mindset to a problem-solving culture that results in flow and growth where everyone in the organization can become a winner. Anand V. Tanikella Vice President R&D Abrasives Worldwide Saint-Gobain Luckman and Flory explain how to create a platform for change and a culture of meaningful continuous improvement through what they call Problem Solving for Complexity. This approach is about engaging everybody in the organization to improve every aspect of how work gets done. Read this book if you want to be a real change leader not just the person who goes around talking about the need for change. Robert Kessiakoff Coach/Consultant Partner LTGe Sweden [This book] describes how the leader through changing his or her own behaviors and practices can transform an organization that is slow to adapt into one that solves problems organically. The book is an important read for leaders and managers at all levels. Peter Ward Senior Associate Dean for Academics Richard M. Ross Chair in Management Professor of Management Sciences Director Center for Operational Excellence Ohio State University Organizational transformation is difficult and despite expensive continuous improvement programs most change efforts fail. This pattern James E. Luckman and Olga Flory argue is due to the fact that most change efforts start with senior leaders assigning an external or internal consulting group to attempt to drive change from the top down. Leaders today can no longer roll out solutions in the hopes of seeing better results. What they can do is play an active role in helping to transform their organization from blanket solutions thinking to learning how to solve complex business problems in a rapidly changing world. Drawing upon decades of leadership experience and years of research with executives across many different industries Luckman and Flory make a persuasive case that most companies have not been able to stay ahead in what is an increasingly turbulent business environment because they simply have not made the cultural changes required to do so. In discussing how to facilitate this culture change the authors share a model for leadership designed to guide an organization to extraordinary new levels of performance by focusing on three key areas: building a framework for problem-solving encouraging respectful communication and accelerating the pace at which the organization learns. The result is more energized team members who are dedicated to their daily work in an organization that is better positioned to achieve operational excellence. Readers will also find powerful stories from executives who have effectively changed their approach to leadership all of which serve to inspire more leaders to take the leap and become problem-solvers for complexity. Transforming Leader Paradigms is a book about strengthening every organization’s capacity to solve complex business problems. But more importantly it’s about what leaders must change in themselves to help their team members solve problems methodically start to look at the world differently using complexity theory and understand what it means to create real value for customers. For leaders who are willing to examine their own behaviors this book is a welcome change from the steady stream of business books on the market that emphasize charismatic and/or heroic leadership as the key to achievement and success. | Transforming Leader Paradigms Evolve from Blanket Solutions to Problem Solving for Complexity

GBP 31.99
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