Lean Solutions

Lean Solutions by James Womack and Daniel Jones
Price £10.50

In their bestselling business classic Lean Thinking, James Womack and Daniel Jones introduced the world to the principles of lean production—principles for eliminating waste during production. Now, in Lean Solutions, the authors establish the groundbreaking principles of lean consumption, showing companies how to eliminate inefficiency during consumption.

Lean Solutions is full of surprising success stories: Fujitsu, a leading service company for technology, has transformed the way call centres solve problems— learning how to eliminate the underlying cause of current problems rather than fixing them again and again. An extremely successful car dealership has adopted lean principles to streamline its business, making for dramatically reduced wait time, fewer return trips, and greater satisfaction for customers— and a far more lucrative enterprise.

Lean Solutions will inspire managers to take the first steps toward perfecting their company’s process of giving consumers what they really want.

Lean Thinking - second edition

Lean Thinking by James Womack and Daniel Jones
Price: £8.50

Lean Thinking, the book that launched the lean movement back in 1996, has now been revised and expanded to bring the story up to date and show the continuing power of lean for today's difficult business climate.

Jones and Womack have tracked the continuing upward progress of the lean pioneers featured in the original edition and have drawn together the lessons they have learnt in observing firms making a sustained lean transformation. The book is still the essential first step for all those embarking on the lean path.

The Machine that Changed the World

The Machine That Changed The World by James Womack and Daniel Jones
Price: £8.50

When The Machine That Changed the World was first published in 1990, Toyota was half the size of General Motors. Today Toyota is passing GM as the world's largest auto maker and is the most consistently successful global enterprise of the past fifty years. This management classic was the first book to reveal Toyota's lean production system that is the basis for its enduring success.

Now reissued in paperback with a new Foreword and Afterword, Machine contrasts two fundamentally different business systems - lean versus mass, two very different ways of thinking about how humans work together to create value. Based on the largest and most thorough study ever undertaken of any industry - MIT's five-year, fourteen-country International Motor Vehicle Program -- this book describes the entire managerial system of lean production.

Today The Machine That Changed the World provides enduring and essential guidance to managers and leaders in every industry seeking to transform traditional enterprises into exemplars of lean success.

Seeing The Whole

Seeing The Whole by James Womack and Daniel Jones
Price: £40.00
Discount of 20% on 10+ copies

For the tens of thousands of users of value stream mapping at the facility level, Seeing the Whole provides the logical next step, extending the field of view all the way up and down the value stream. In this new action guide, Daniel Jones and Jim Womack, co-authors of the best-selling Machine That Changed the World and Lean Thinking provide a management tool for identifying and removing waste along the entire value stream from raw materials to end customer.

By identifying all the steps and time required to move a typical product from raw materials to finished goods, the authors show that nearly 90 percent of the actions and 99.99 percent of the time required for the value chain's Current State create no value. In addition, the mapping method clearly shows demand amplification of orders as they travel up the value stream, steadily growing quality problems, and steadily deteriorating shipping performance at every point up stream from the customer.

Applying the method to a realistic example, the authors show how four firms sharing a value stream can create a win-win-win-win-win future in which everyone, including the end consumer, can be better off.

Lean Thinking For the NHS

Lean Thinking for the NHS (Leading Edge Report) NHS Confederation Leading-Edge Report
by Daniel Jones and Alan Mitchell

We asked the Lean Enterprise Academy to look at how Toyota’s approach to production could be applied to healthcare.

The underpinning values of removing activities that don’t add value and of respect for people and society lie at the heart of healthcare. And the principles on which Lean is based are generic. They can be applied anywhere: at home, in a bank, GP practice or hospital ...

The results are potentially very significant. Lean’s focus on delivering care is a refreshing antidote to benchmarks, targets and the traditional approach to performance management. The emphasis it puts on looking at the whole system is valuable ...

Nigel Edwards
Policy Director NHS Confederation

Also see Dan's presentation Lean Thinking For the NHS

Rethinking Construction Report

Rethinking Construction The report of the Construction Task Force to the Deputy Prime Minister, John Prescott, on the scope for improving the quality and efficiency of UK construction.