To further your Learning about Lean Transformation here are links to key resources:
Better Thinking, Better Results - The story of a Lean Transformation including how a Management and true use of continuous deep Thinking about Lean created success.
The Toyota Way – Good introduction to Toyota principles and an insight into how they formed, and have used, their TPS (Toyota Production System) to be successful.
Toyota Production System - A conversation with Taiichi Ohno helps you maintain and gain an insight from one of the original sources of TPS.
The Toyota Way Fieldbook - Goes beyond principles to help you understand and implement the 4P approach of Philosophy, Process, People and Partners, and Problem Solving.
Unipart – A leader in Lean who can actually let you visit their processes and see how they have effected their own Lean Transformation and also can provide support services for Lean Transformations.
Lean UK - Academic and Research based collator of Lean information.
The New Lean Toolbox: Towards Fast Flexible Flow - Guidance on Lean use in Transformation. Not just tools.
The Lean Toolbox for Service Systems - Applied guidance for Lean Transformation in Service environments. Not just tools.
Learning to See - Learn how to create Current, and Future, States in Value Stream Maps to identify Waste for removal to improve Value for customers.
The Complete Lean Enterprise: Value Stream Mapping for Administrative and Office Processes - How to extend Lean approaches into support and transactional areas effectively.
Creating Mixed Model Value Streams - How Lean can be used in more intricate and compounded environments.
QV Systems - Quickening the Pace of New Product Development - A critical element of how to increasingly rapidly and effectively develop and introduce new product, or service, offerings in a Lean and very visual way.
Hoshin Kanri for the Lean Enterprise - Learn how to align and deliver your Strategy by gaining teams’ agreements using Policy Deployment for your organisation’s Lean Journey.
