Management Web Sites and Resources

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• Markovitz Consulting by Daniel Markovitz
  Blog by Dan Markovitz on lean thinking and how managers can properly allocate their time.

• Building a Great Company by Gregg Stocker
  "Thoughts and examples - good and bad - on the state of business and how to improve competitiveness and quality of life for everybody."

• Designing Kaizen
  Website for lean management trainer with blog.

• Lean Blitz
  Looks at lean ideas related specifically to sports organizations and sports small businesses

• Work Matters by Bob Sutton
  

• Beyond Lean
  Blog by industrial engineering with the theme of reflecting on lean management and the idea that business units should be educated on lean thinking and principles.

• Steven Spear by Steven Spear
  Five-time winner of the Shingo Prize for research excellence and a senior lecturer at MIT and former assistant professor at Harvard. A senior fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, he is the author of numerous articles appearing in academic and trade publications, including the Harvard Business Review, Annals of Internal Medicine, Academic Medicine, The Boston Globe, and The New York Times.

• Science of Improvement by Cliff Norman
  

• Improving Police by David C. Couper
  By the former chief of police of Madison, Wisconsin.

• Got Boondoggle by Mike Wroblewski
  "My lean experiences include learning directly from the original lean leaders including Dr. Shigeo Shingo. As a certified Six Sigma Black Belt, I believe quality is a cornerstone of all improvement actions. By sharing these experiences and insights, my hope is that you may benefit on your lean journey."

• How to implement Lean Thinking in a Business by Tracey Richardson
  Blog by a trainer for Toyota and consultant.

• Learning about Lean
  "I started writing Learning About Lean in September 2002. It chronicles my efforts to implement the Toyota Production System in now two different orginizational settings." by Joe Ely

• Agile consulting
  Insights on Agile, Lean, Kanban, and Flow by Jeff Anderson and Alexis Hui.

• Be More Careful by Mark Graban
  A Collection of workplace signs and posters that don't get to the root cause.

• qBlog
  Blog by the Office of Quality Management at National University of Singapore.

• Karen's blog by Karen Martin
  

• Lean HR
  "A discussion of using Lean tools and technology to drive change and streamline processes throughout the HR value stream." by Dwane Lay

• Gemba Tales
  Blog by Mark Hamel exploring experiences (some successful, some not) of the author and other lean practitioners and shared for the purpose of providing insight into the application of lean concepts.

• Gotta Go Lean by Jeff Hajek
  "The Gotta Go Lean Blog focuses on Lean at the front line. We help managers and employees work together to make Lean more productive for the company, and jobs more satisfying for workers."

• Deming From the Bottom Up
  "What would happen if a front-line worker 'accidentally stumbled upon the writings of Dr W. Edward Deming, and became convinced that Dr Deming's basic tenants if pursued would result in a quality organization from top to bottom. This blog will demonstrate the effect of DMM on that individual." By Dan Lang