Exceptional.
Simple story teaches the most some of
the most important concepts for growth
in a manufacturing environment. The plant
is a microcosm of the enterprise. The
Goal focuses on bottlenecks as the key
leverage point in a manufacturing environment.
While this may be a machine in the plant,
the bottleneck for the enterprise is cross-functional
coordination. Well worth reading and thinking
about.
The
Race
This is
an essential follow up book to The Goal
for those working to improve manufacturing
and those looking to understand the concepts
of the drum-buffer-rope system of management.
Toyota
Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production
After only
reading a few pages of this book you will
see that Toyota supply chain is a lethal
weapon that is beating the competition
and supporting continuous profitability
and growth.
Machine
That Changed the World: The Story of Lean
Production
Based on MIT's
five-million-dollar, five-year study on
the future of the automobile, three directors
of research deliver a groundbreaking analysis
of the worldwide move from mass production
to lean production. The authors explain
lean production and reveal how it works,
why it results in more cost-efficient
products, and its significant global impact.
Direct
From Dell: Strategies That Revolutionized
an Industry
Excellent book
for company executives who want to drive
their companies to excellence. This book
was a quick read and better than most
when it comes to learning (or re-learning)
excellent ideas for creating customer
focus, employee commitment, supplier involvement
and total quality management.
Competing Against Time: How Time-Based Competition
is Reshaping Global Markets
The ways
leading companies manage time represent
the most powerful new sources of competitive
advantage. With hundreds of detailed examples
from companies that have put these strategies
in place, the authors show exactly how
reducing elapsed time can make the critical
difference in success or failure.
