July 26, 2011

Review of “The Toyota Way to Continuous Improvement” by Jeff Liker and James Franz

For more than 10 years Jeff Liker and his colleagues have led the way in writing about the “Toyota Way”: holding up a beacon for the true lean philosophy. “The Toyota Way to Continuous Improvement” doesn’t really do this. For the first time Mr Liker does not reveal some new aspect of the Toyota Way

July 25, 2011

Review of “Toyota Kata” by Mike Rother

“Toyota Kata” could be the most important book on “lean” since “The Toyota Way”. Based on six years research at Toyota, Mike Rother’s book provides a very readable and straightforward approach to embedding continuous improvement – putting the “principles” of the Toyota Production System into action. Interestingly, Mr Rother argues that the “Kaizen Event” approach

July 2, 2011

A Summary of Throughput Accounting

Throughput Accounting is an approach developed out of the Theory of Constraints approach to process improvement. Throughput Accounting falls under the heading “flow accounting”, along with lean accounting. Both techniques are similar (with some terminology differences) and seek to align costs with the flow through a Value Stream or process. In Throughput Accounting (and Lean

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Review of “The Toyota Way to Continuous Improvement” by Jeff Liker and James Franz

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A Summary of Throughput Accounting