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The Machine That Changed the World The Story of Lean
Production by James P. Womack, Daniel T. Jones (Contributor) and Daniel Roos (Contributor), 1991. Based on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
five-million-dollar, fourteen-country International Motor Vehicle Program's five year study on the future of
the worldwide auto industry. buy the hardcover version buy the audio tape version 
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Lean Six Sigma for Service How to Use Lean Speed and Six Sigma Quality to Improve
Services and Transactions by Michael L. George, 2003. "Lean Six Sigma for Service provides a service-based approach, explaining how companies of all types can
cost-effectively translate manufacturing-oriented Lean Six Sigma tools into the service delivery process."
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The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles
From The World's Greatest Manufacturer by Jeffrey Liker, 2003. "The Toyota
Way, explain's Toyota's unique approach to Lean--the 14 management principles and philosophy that drive
Toyota's quality and efficiency-obsessed culture."
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Lean Thinking Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation by James P. Womack and Daniel T. Jones, 2003. Highly Recommended. Exceptional book that should be read by every manger.
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Toyota Production System Beyond Large-Scale Production by Taiichi Ohno, 1988. "Here's the first information ever published in Japan on the Toyota production system (known as Just-In-Time
manufacturing). Here Ohno, who created JIT for Toyota, reveals the origins, daring innovations, and ceaseless
evolution of the Toyota system
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The Toyota Way Fieldbook a Practical Guide to Implimenting Toyota's 4Ps by Jeffrey Liker and David Meier, 2005. "Valuable insights into Toyota's system and culture along with diagnostic tools, work sheets, and
exercises--many adapted directly from Toyota originals."
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Lean Solutions How Companies and Customers Can
Create Value and Wealth Together by James P. Womack and Daniel T. Jones
, 2005. "few companies today see consumption as a process -- a series of linked goods and services, all of which must
occur seamlessly for the consumer to be satisfied. Buying a home computer, for example, involves researching,
purchasing, integrating, maint
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Kaikaku by Norman Bodek, 2004. 2005 Shingo Research Prize: "Bodek
captures in clear detail many of the principles and techniques of what we know of today as Lean
Manufacturing."
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