Shingo Prize recognizes six for research excellence
The Shingo research prizes for books, DVDs, or other educational materials were announced. Click on the link above for descriptions or on the links below for amazon.com links if you’re interested in buying them. Many of these books were also brought up by Jim Womack when I recorded our Podcast interview yesterday. Look for two separate Podcasts in the coming weeks.
“Hoshin Kanri for the Lean Enterprise: Developing Competitive Capabilities And Managing Profit
“Inside the Mind of Toyota: Management Principles for Enduring Growth
“Lean Software Strategies: Proven Techniques For Managers And Developers
“The Toyota Product Development System: Integrating People, Process And Technology
“The Twi Workbook: Essential Skills for Supervisors
Does anyone have any comments about those books?
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I wrote this review for Tom Jackson’s book on hoshin kanri:
Tom Jackson’s practical and valuable insights are rivaled only by the importance and benefits of applying Hoshin Kanri. Hoshin Kanri as a practice has been applied as part of lean transformation efforts for quite a long time. But there were still very limited resources for people to learn more about it. Tom’s work in this arena is extensive, and throughout all of his books (others are Implementing a Lean Management System and Corporate Diagnosis), he has focused on tools and systems for management to use in a lean company. This is the only book you’ll need – I highly recommend picking it up.
One of the things I most appreciate about this book is how it integrates hoshin kanri with the Plan-Do-Check-Act process. This of course is the intent of hoshin kanri, but the linkage was never presented so clearly.
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Mark,
The sixth award went to Dr. Tom Johnson’s artcle “Lean Dilemma: Choose System Principles or Management Controls – Not Both”.
It is most definitely worth the time to read. Tom challenges some of the emerging reliance on “lean accounting” and, I believe, points out its inherent problems.
As regards the other award winners, I’m on my 2nd cover-to-cover read of Hino’s book. As Liker notes in the foreward, it is indeed full of powerful information.
cheers,
Bryan
Portland, OR
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