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Lean and systems thinking

Lean and ‘systems thinking’ are concepts which have come to mean ‘all things to all people’. Lean is not ‘mean’ – it is not about paring things back to the bone, asking employees to work harder and doing more with less.

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The Campaign Against Consultancy

RedQuadrant has launched the Campaign Against Consultancy. Our goal - that the public sector need no longer rely on costly consultants.

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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

 

 

 

 

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