Productivity Press

Toyota Kaizen Methods: Six Steps to Improvement focuses on the skills and techniques practiced inside Toyota Motor Corporation during the past decades. Written by Art Smalley and Isao Kato, two of Toyota's most revered and experienced trainers.

The A3 Workbook: Unlock Your Problem-Solving Mind is designed to teach A3 Problem Solving to workers at every level of an organization. Uniquely qualified to write this workbook, Matthews is an expert trainer with 30 years of training experience.

Written by two experts who have dedicated their careers to quality improvement, Escape the Improvement Trap separates itself from other improvement books by looking at why companies rarely achieve anything more than an average level of improvement.

This book shares practical tips, examples, and case studies to help you establish a culture of continuous improvement to deliver IT operational excellence and business value to your organization.

Lean Supplier Development: Establishing Partnerships and True Costs Throughout the Supply Chain provides step-by-step instruction on how to build partnerships of mutual improvement and success through supplier development.

Encouraging a long overdue shift in thinking, this book gives managers and executives the means to maximize employee potential by first showing them how to increase the improvement power of their HR departments.

This new book delivers the tools and techniques needed to adapt Lean manufacturing concepts of waste, value, and continuous flow to the technology-rich service-oriented office.

Detailing the steps required to lead a company to institutionalize target costing, Target Cost Management: The Ladder to Global Survival and Success details the two primary ingredients of target costing proper organizational structure & cost tables.

Based on three decades of teaching experience, Principles and Practices of Lean Production introduces the Lean philosophy to students and illustrates the effective application of Lean tools with real-world case studies.

This new book discusses whether dealing with errors is a learned skill and looks at how much of the problem is caused by the failure to teach, learn, and understand medical error, including the often neglected importance of critical thinking skills.