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| 1. | Amazon.com |
| In the revised and updated edition of Lean Thinking: Banish Waste and
Create Wealth in Your Corporation, authors James P. Womack and Daniel
T. Jones provide a thoughtful expansion upon their value-based business
system based... read full editorial |
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| 2. | From Publishers Weekly |
| There's a missionary zeal to this book for corporate managers: it wants to
convert companies the world over to the streamlined production process
pioneered by Toyota after WWII. Womack and Jones chronicled Toyota's
concept... read full editorial |
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| 3. | From AudioFile |
| An expanded version of a well-known guide that apparently has a cult
following, this audio provides a road map on how to squeeze the most value
from a product idea, from concept and manufacturing to product launch... read full editorial |
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| 4. | From Booklist |
| In The Machine That Changed the World (1990), Womack and Jones,
along with Daniel Roos, lauded the manufacturing technique used by
Japanese automakers, known as "lean production" and also as the Toyota
Production System... read full editorial |
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| 5. | Review |
| Fortune A new and coherent thesis about automotive
production...[the authors] back up their conclusions with unique
statistical measures that are authoritative, extremely timely, and highly
revealing. Think of this book... read full editorial |
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| 6. | Book Info |
| Text describes lean thinking, a tool for creating value and eliminating
waste in any organization. Updated edition shares a range of new tools
aimed at the successful application of lean thinking. Previous edition:
c1996. |
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| 7. | Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. |
| Chapter 1 Value
A House or a Hassle-Free Experience? Doyle Wilson of Austin,
Texas, had been building homes for fifteen years before he got serious
about quality. "In October of 1991 I just got disgusted. Such a large... read full editorial |
