Product Description: How to speed up business processes, improve quality, and cut costs in any industryIn factories around the world, Toyota consistently makes the highest-quality cars with the fewest defects of any competing manufacturer, while using fewer man-hours, less on-hand inventory, and half the floor space of its competitors...read more

Product Description: The definitive account of the 2009-2010 Toyota recall: A case study for overcoming any management crisis Toyota Under Fire, 2011 Shingo Prize Winner, takes you beyond the headlines and into the offices and factories of Toyota to reveal the truth behind the company's highly publicized and controversial recall of over 10 million vehicles...read more

Product Description: The Lean Manager: A Novel of Lean Transformation, by lean experts Michael and Freddy Ballé, addresses the critical problem that most companies face today: how can they advance beyond realizing isolated gains from deploying lean tools, to fundamentally changing how they operate, think, and learn? The book gives companies a definitive guide for sustaining their ability to learn and to improve operations and financial performance, while continually developing people...read more

Product Description: Productivity's new Kaizen Learning Package provides the information and techniques you need to prepare for and conduct a successful Kaizen event.Clear, concise text and explanatory graphics are used to discuss how to: Form and train a kaizen team...read more