Lean and systems thinking reading list
All these books are available from the RedQuadrant library on request
Brian Joiner – Fourth Generation Management
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0070327157
Seddon – Freedom from Command and Control
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0954618300
Deming – Out of the crisis
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0262541157
Taiichi Ohno – The Toyota Production System
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0915299143
Eliyahu M. Goldratt – The goal
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0566086654
Barry Oshry – Seeing Systems
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1442975679
John Shook – Managing to learn
http://www.lean.org/bookstore/ProductDetails.cfm?SelectedProductID=246
Mike Rother – Toyota Kata
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Toyota-Kata-Managing-Improvement-Adaptiveness/dp/0071635238
Stephen Parry et al – Sense and Respond
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sense-Respond-Journey-Customer-Purpose/dp/140394573X
Develin – Total Quality Management
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Total-Quality-Management-Breaking-Accountancy/dp/1853553824
Alan Clark – Picture Your Business: the way to extraordinary performance and quality
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Picture-Your-Business-Extraordinary-Performance/dp/0955167752
Senge – The Fifth Discipline
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fifth-Discipline-practice-learning-organization/dp/1905211201
Womack & Jones – Lean Thinking
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0743231643
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Lean
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0872638316
You should also subscribe (if you haven’t already) to Lean.org, leanuk.org, evolvingexcellence.com, and of course (despite the hype) www.systemsthinking.co.uk
Additional reading material can be found here.
Suggestions for additions or changes are very welcome: ben.taylor@redquadrant.com