Lean Articles and e-Letters

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International Commerce Review

Daniel Jones has been an editor on the International Commerce Review for several years.

The recently published 10 Years of New Knowledge digest contains a decade of breakthrough articles on business strategy, shopper marketing and supply chain in the Consumer Goods Business.

The digest is presented by the International Commerce Institute of ECR Europe. It contains a selection of summaries of breakthrough articles that have previously been published in the International Commerce Review: ECR Journal.

Since the year 2000, the ‘Review’ has attempted to bring insight and spawn the creation of New Knowledge amongst thought leaders in both academia and the business community around the world. The Review’s Editorial Board is a roll-call of the most admired supply chain, marketing and retail academics today. They, along with executive contributors from leading companies, use the Review as a medium through which to bring you the best of their research and thought leadership.

The selection of articles in this booklet attempts to give a balanced overview of potential solutions to challenges facing our businesses today. The editors realize that the – very condensed – summaries don’t do full justice to the original articles and their authors. We therefore take the liberty to suggest the interested reader to download full articles from the website of the International Commerce Institute.

New to Lean?

PDF file Doing Lean Yourself IT
Daniel Jones - e-letter
Jul 2008

PDF file Lean Homework
Daniel Jones - e-letter
Jun 2008

PDF file Rethinking IT
Daniel Jones - e-letter
Apr 2008

PDF file The Missing Link
Jim Womack - e-Letter
Feb 2008

PDF file Leading The Lean Enterprise
Daniel Jones - CMI, London, UK
Jan 2008

PDF file The Truth About Lean
Daniel Jones - e-letter
Dec 2007

PDF file Respect for People
Jim Womack - e-Letter
Dec 2007

PDF file 10 Years and Counting
Jim Womack - e-Letter
Oct 2007

PDF file What is Lean?
Daniel Jones - e-letter
Sep 2007

PDF file Beyond Rapid Improvement
Daniel Jones - Lean Healthcare
Aug 2007

PDF file Little and Often
Daniel Jones - e-letter
Feb 2007

PDF file Wasting Customers Time
Daniel Jones - e-letter
Jan 2007

PDF file Changing Reasons for Going Lean
Daniel Jones - e-letter
Nov 2006

PDF file Right-sized Technologies
Daniel Jones - e-letter
Aug 2006

PDF file Lean Thinking For the NHS
Daniel Jones - NHS Confederation Conference
Jun 2006

PDF file NHS Should Embrace Lean Times
Steve Mathieson - Society Guardian
Jun 2006

PDF file Too Much Transparency
Daniel Jones - e-letter
Jun 2006

PDF file Lean Thinking For the NHS
Daniel Jones and Alan Mitchell
NHS Confederation Report
Jun 2006

PDF file Purpose, Process, People
Jim Womack - e-Letter
Jun 2006

PDF file Fewer Heroes, More Farmers
Jim Womack - e-Letter
May 2006

PDF file Four Curses
Daniel Jones - e-letter
Apr 2006

PDF file Think Yourself Thin
Daniel Jones - Health Service Journal
Apr 2006

PDF file Can Lean Save Healthcare
David Ben-Tovim
An interview with David Ben-Tovim
Apr 2006

PDF file Developing Problem Solvers
Daniel Jones - e-letter
Mar 2006

PDF file Where does Lean Healthcare Begin and End
Daniel Jones
2nd Redesigning Care Summit, Adelaide
Mar 2006

PDF file Wait Watchers (Part 1 and 2)
Steve Mathieson
Health Service Journal
Mar 2006

PDF file Wait Watchers (Part 3)
Steve Mathieson
Health Service Journal
Mar 2006

PDF file WaitWatchers (Part 4)
Steve Mathieson
Health Service Journal
Mar 2006

PDF file No More Lean Excuses
Daniel Jones - e-letter
Feb 2006

PDF file Implications of Lean Thinking for Healthcare
Daniel Jones
Healthcare Futures Network
Feb 2006

PDF file A Tale of Two Business Systems
Jim Womack - e-Letter
Feb 2006

PDF file Why Responsiveness Matters
Daniel Jones - Lean Logistics Conference
Wroclaw, Poland
Feb 2006

PDF file Lean Lessons for 2006
Daniel Jones - e-letter
Dec 2005

PDF file Competing with China
Daniel Jones - e-letter
Oct 2005

PDF file Broken Business Models
Daniel Jones - e-letter
Sep 2005

PDF file Creating Lean Solutions
Daniel Jones - Manufacturer Live
Telford, UK
Sep 2005

PDF file Supply Chain Walks
Daniel Jones - e-letter
Aug 2005

PDF file Leaning Toward Utopia
A Profile of Daniel Jones and Jim Womack
Art Kliener - Strategy+Business Magazine
Jul 2005

PDF file Serving Consumers
Daniel Jones - e-letter
May 2005

PDF file Lean Attitude
Michael Ballé
IEE Manufacturing Engineer
May 2005

PDF file All Consumer Problems Solved!
Michael Skapinker - The Financial Times
Apr 2005

PDF file The Challenge of Lean Consumption
Daniel Jones - Australian Industry Group
Melbourne, Australia
Mar 2005

PDF file Lean Consumption
Daniel Jones and Jim Womack
Harvard Business Review
Mar 2005

PDF file Rapid, Reflexive, Replenishment
Daniel Jones - e-letter
Jan 2005

PDF file Planning For Flow
Daniel Jones - e-letter
Dec 2004

PDF file Walking Through Lean History
Jim Womack - e-Letter
Dec 2004

PDF file Is Lean So Hard?
Daniel Jones - e-letter
Nov 2004

PDF file Lean Thinking: Past and Future
Jim Womack - Lean Management Summit
Aachen, Germany
Nov 2004

PDF file Beyond Cost Cutting
Daniel Jones - e-letter
Oct 2004

PDF file Eliminating Failure Demand
Daniel Jones - e-letter
Aug 2004

PDF file Learning to See Demand
Daniel Jones - e-letter
Jul 2004

PDF file Building a Lean Management System
Daniel Jones
Production Systems Conference
Stuttgart, Germany
Jun 2004

PDF file The Lean Strategic Challenge
Daniel Jones
UK-US Manufacturing Summit
Manchester, UK
Jun 2004

PDF file Lean Beyond Manufacturing
Daniel Jones - e-letter
Jan 2004

PDF file The Prospects for Lean
Jim Womack - e-Letter
Jan 2004

PDF file Is Lean Mean?
Jim Womack - e-Letter
Dec 2003

PDF file The Beginners Guide to Lean
Daniel Jones - e-letter
Nov 2003

PDF file Is Lean Green
Jim Womack - e-Letter
Nov 2003

PDF file Meeting The Challenge From Turkey
Daniel Jones - e-letter
Oct 2003

PDF file The Beginners Guide to Lean
Daniel Jones - The Manufacturer Live / Telford
Sep 2003

PDF file How Lean Compares with TQM, Six Sigma etc.
Jim Womack - e-Letter
Jul 2003

PDF file The Value of Lean
Daniel Jones - CBI Voice
Jun 2003

PDF file When Lean could mean Green
Simon Caulkin - Interview in The Observer
Feb 2003

PDF file Move Your Operations To China?
Jim Womack - e-Letter
Jan 2003

PDF file Why LEA?
Daniel Jones - e-letter
Dec 2002

PDF file Waste Not Want Not
Simon Caulkin
Interview in The Observer
Sep 2002

PDF file Creating a Customer-Driven Supply Chain
Daniel Jones - ECR Journal
Winter 2002

PDF file Tesco.com: Delivering Home Shopping
Daniel Jones - ECR Journal
Summer 2001

PDF file Thinking Outside the Box
Daniel Jones - ECR Journal
Summer 2001

PDF file From Lean Production to Lean Enterprise
Daniel Jones and Jim Womack
Harvard Business Review
Mar 1994

PDF file Beyond Toyota
(How to Root out Waste & Pursue Perfection)
Daniel Jones and Jim Womack
Harvard Business Review
Mar 1994

Making early steps

PDF file Unscrambling Supply Chains
Daniel Jones - e-letter
Apr 2008

PDF file The Big Mura and Mean Leanness
Jim Womack - e-Letter
Apr 2008

PDF file Jumping To Solutions
Daniel Jones - e-letter
Feb 2008

PDF file Where to do Lean?
Daniel Jones - e-letter
Jan 2008

PDF file Thinking Back from the Customer
Daniel Jones - e-letter
Nov 2007

PDF file The Invisible Opportunity
Daniel Jones
International Commerce Review
Aug 2007

PDF file What to Teach the Kids
Daniel Jones - e-letter
Aug 2007

PDF file Creating Lean Healthcare
Jim Womack - e-Letter
May 2007

PDF file More Thinking About Lean Transformations
Jim Womack - e-Letter
Jan 2007

PDF file Asking Questions
Daniel Jones - e-letter
Dec 2006

PDF file From Lean Tools to Lean Management
Jim Womack - e-Letter
Nov 2006

PDF file The Evolution of Lean
Daniel Jones
European Manufacturing Strategy Summit
Dusseldorf, Germany
Oct 2006

PDF file Green Stream Poster (Updated)
Carol Makin
3rd Lean Healthcare Forum
Oct 2006

PDF file Learning To Act
Daniel Jones - e-letter
Oct 2006

PDF file Next Steps in Lean Healthcare
Daniel Jones - Lean Healthcare
Aug 2006

PDF file Thinking End-to-End
Jim Womack - e-Letter
Aug 2006

PDF file Green Stream Poster
Carol Makin - Clatterbridge Rapid Improvement Workshop
May 2006

PDF file Lean Consumption & Lean Thinking in Practice
Daniel Jones and Alan Richards
ECR Conference, Stockholm, Sweden
May 2006

PDF file Leaning Healthcare
Daniel Jones - e-letter
May 2006

PDF file Breaking Through To Flow
Daniel Jones - e-letter
Jan 2006

PDF file The Big Opportunity
Jim Womack - e-Letter
Nov 2005

PDF file Taking Responsibility for Pull
Daniel Jones - e-letter
Jun 2005

PDF file How Lean Consumption Can Transform
Retailing and Supply Chains
Daniel Jones and Jim Womack
ECR Conference, Paris, France
Apr 2005

PDF file Achieving Basic Stability
Art Smalley - Article
Apr 2005

PDF file The Dramatic Spread of Lean Thinking
Jim Womack - e-Letter
Apr 2005

PDF file Lean is no Longer Mean in the
New Brand Philosophy
Alan Mitchell - Marketing Week
Apr 2005

PDF file Going To Market
Daniel Jones - e-letter
Apr 2005

PDF file Lean From The Top
Daniel Jones - e-letter
Mar 2005

PDF file Lean Consumption
Jim Womack - e-Letter
Mar 2005

PDF file Moving To Flow
Ian Glenday - UK Article
Dec 2004

PDF file Building A Lean Business System
Daniel Jones
Lean Management Summit, Aachen, Germany
Nov 2004

PDF file Building the Lean Supply Chain
Daniel Jones - Food Manufacture
Nov 2004

PDF file Lean Rapid Response Logistics
Daniel Jones
Manufacturing Computer Solutions
Nov 2004

PDF file The Tower of Babel
Jim Womack - e-Letter
Oct 2004

PDF file Beyond the Lean Tool Box
Daniel Jones - e-letter
Jun 2004

PDF file Creating Basic Stability
Jim Womack - e-Letter
May 2004

PDF file Learning to Lead at Toyota
Steven J Spear - Harvard Business Review
May 2004

PDF file How Lean Are You?
Daniel Jones - e-letter
Apr 2004

PDF file Standardized Worrying
Jim Womack - e-Letter
Apr 2004

PDF file Lean Beyond The Factory
Jim Womack - e-Letter
Mar 2004

PDF file Lean Allies in the Office
Daniel Jones - e-letter
Feb 2004

PDF file New Frontiers of Lean Practice
Daniel Jones - AME Conference - Toronto, Canada
Oct 2003

PDF file The Lean Service Machine
Cynthia K Swank
Harvard Business Review
Oct 2003

PDF file The Tale of Two Companies
Daniel Jones - e-letter
Aug 2003

PDF file We have been (Lean) Thinking
Daniel Jones - e-letter
May 2003

PDF file Decoding the DNA of the Toyota
Production System
Steven J Spear
Harvard Business Review
Jun 1999

PDF file Lean and Green: Doing more with Lean
David Simons and Robert Mason
ECR Journal
Winter 2003

On the lean journey ...

PDF file Changing Gear with Lean
Daniel Jones - e-letter
Aug 2008

PDF file Lean Consulting
Daniel Jones - e-letter
May 2008

PDF file Creating Value or Shifting Wealth
Jim Womack - e-Letter
May 2008

PDF file Rethinking IT
Daniel Jones - e-letter
Apr 2008

PDF file Yokoten Across the World
Jim Womack - e-Letter
Mar 2008

PDF file Cadence
Jim Womack - e-Letter
Jan 2008

PDF file The Next Ten Years
Daniel Jones - e-letter
Oct 2007

PDF file Kaizen or Rework?
Jim Womack - e-Letter
Aug 2007

PDF file The Problem of Sustainability
Jim Womack - e-Letter
Jun 2007

PDF file One Third of the Way to Lean?
Daniel Jones - e-letter
Jun 2007

PDF file From Lean Supply Chains to Value Streams
Daniel Jones - e-letter
May 2007

PDF file Why Toyota Won and How Toyota Can Lose
Jim Womack - e-Letter
Apr 2007

PDF file Crossing the Lean Threshold
Daniel Jones - e-letter
Mar 2007

PDF file What I've Learned About
Planning and Execution
Jim Womack - e-Letter
Dec 2006

PDF file GDP vs Gross Domestic Waste
Jim Womack - e-Letter
Oct 2006

PDF file 2016: The Future Value Chain
GCI / CAPgemini / Intel
GCI Report
Oct 2006

PDF file Value Steam Management
Daniel Jones - e-letter
Sep 2006

PDF file The Lean Way Forward at Ford
Jim Womack - e-Letter
Sep 2006

PDF file Mura - Muri - Muda?
Jim Womack - e-Letter
Jul 2006

PDF file The Magic of Levelled Scheduling
Alan Mitchell - Article
May 2006

PDF file Just In Time - Just In Case and
Just Plain Wrong
Jim Womack - e-Letter
Jan 2006

PDF file Process Leadership
Daniel Jones - e-letter
Nov 2005

PDF file Lean Development
Freddy and Michael Ballé
Business Strategy Review
Sep 2005

PDF file TPM At The Heart of Lean
Art Smalley - The Manufacturer
Apr 2005

PDF file Beyond Squeezing Margins
Daniel Jones - e-letter
Feb 2005

PDF file The State of Lean
Jim Womack - e-Letter
Jan 2005

PDF file Lean Information Management
Jim Womack - e-Letter
Nov 2004

PDF file The Fujitsu Lean Service Case Study
Stephen Parry
Managing and Measuring for Value
Aug 2004

PDF file The Wonder of Level Pull
Jim Womack - e-Letter
Apr 2004

PDF file Supply Chains of the Future
Daniel Jones
Presentation to the ECR Congress
Berlin, Germany
May 2003

PDF file Don't be Fooled by Fake Flow
Rick Harris - IIE Solutions
Dec 2001

PDF file Foresight Manufacturing 2020
Daniel Jones - Department of Trade and Industry
2000

PDF file The Egan Report: Rethinking Construction
Daniel Jones - Office of the Deputy Prime Minister
1998