Oaklea Press Books for Businesses Engaged in Lean Transformation and Continuous Improvement
LEAN TRANSFORMATION: How to Change Your Business into a Lean Enterprise is the most popular book ever for taking a company lean and has become required reading for Lean certification by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), the Shingo Prize, and the Association for Manufacturing Excellence (AME).
0-9646601-2-1, 978-1511657037, 1511657030
JOYSTICK: Guiding and Managing Your Nonprofit Business. The success of every nonprofit organization is directly tied to the leadership of the CEO, the Board Chair, and its board members. If you happen to fall into one of those categories, you’ll want to read this book because it’s full of insight and information you can use.
978-1975925918, 1975925912
Product Development for the Lean Enterprise: Why Toyota’s System Is Four Times More Productive and How You Can Implement It. If you're in new product development, or simply work in management and depend on new products for your livelihood, this is definitely the must-read of the decade.
1-892538-09-1, 978-1511657044, 1511657049
READY, SET, DOMINATE: Implement Toyota’s Set-Based Learning for Developing Products and Nobody Can Catch You. This book explains how to implement the Toyota Product Development System, including the pitfalls to watch out for and avoid, and which shortcuts to take.
1-892538-41-3, 978-1-892538-41-3, 978-1511659659, 1511659653
LEAN ENTERPRISE LEADER: How to Get Things Done without Doing It All Yourself explains how to flatten out the hierarchy, organize into teams and establish a system that insures everyone pulls his or her own weight.
1-892538-47-4, 978-1512375251, 151237525X
A WORKBOOK FOR ASSESSING YOUR LEAN TRANSFORMATION. This Lean Transformation book of tactics helps you determine your current lean transformation state, prioritize lean action steps, gauge your progress. Almost 100 color photographs will help you see where you need to be.
0-9717317-0-5, 978-1512099508, 1512099503
BURIED ALIVE: Digging out of a Management Dumpster. This book will make the goal of increased productivity possible through process based leadership that insures that everyone accepts accountability, and that each person on your team pulls his or her own weight.
1-892538-15-6, 978-1512330670, 1512330671
The CEO's Guide from Good to Great: How to Focus the Power of Your People and Move to the Next Level. This book lays down a methodology comprised of a few simple rules involving scorecards, action registers, and interlocking teams that when instituted will insure everyone knows what he or she must do to succeed personally, as well as what has to be done for the organization to succeed.
978-1512110494, 1512110493
Brand Advertising: How to Create Work that Connects with Customers Every Time. The authors explain how to build a bond with prospective customers, a bond that creates an expectation of positive performance.
978-1537048628, 1537048627
Continuous Improvement Marketing. Now there’s a methodology developed specifically for marketing that can also be applied to the workings of an entire company, large or small.
978-1515163114 , 1515163113
LEAN MANUFACTURING IN BUILD TO ORDER, COMPLEX AND VARIABLE ENVIRONMENTS. From oil rigs to trucks customized for specific purposes, from HVAC systems and ship engines to houses and airplanes, this book will show you how create a new playing field for your business if you want to offer customers complex products that are built to order.
1-892538-41-3, 978-1-892538-41-3, 978-1517678760, 1517678765
Leaving Your Leadership Legacy: Creating a Timeless and Enduring Culture of Clarity, Connectivity, and Consistency. The management process this book explains is now being employed successfully not only by small and medium size businesses, but also by Fortune 500 companies, successful municipalities, and the United States Army.
978-1512335491, 1512335495
The Art & Science of Applied Lean for Operations: Lean Sigma Practice Beyond Certification is a pragmatic book for the Lean Sigma practitioner. It emphasizes the practice of lean sigma beyond traditional teaching and certification activities and it illuminates the many areas in a business where the practical application of Lean Sigma can add value and enable world class performance.
1548484601, 978-1548484606