Posts Tagged ‘value chain management’
Essential holiday Reading for CI Professionals
Posted by jhyam in Machine Truth Blog Monday, 20 December 2010 22:31 4 Comments
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It’s that time of year again – the holiday season is just around the corner. When curling up with a hot chocolate in front of a roaring fire, a great book seems like the ideal companion. CI professionals, if you’re looking for ideas of what to read this holiday season, here (after much consideration!), are our top six ‘Essential Holiday Reads’ to lose yourself in this winter. |
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| Book name | Cover | Description | Author | Year Published | |
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| The Goal |  |
The Goal is a management-oriented novel that introduces the Theory of Constraints, bottlenecks and how to alleviate them, and applications of these concepts in real life. His methods have become a model for systems management world-over. | Dr. Eliyahu M. Goldratt | 2004 | |
| The Toyota Way |  |
The Toyota Way outlines a set of principles and behaviors that define Toyota Motor Corporation’s managerial approach and production system. Toyota first summed up its philosophy, values and manufacturing ideals in 2001, calling it The Toyota Way 2001. | Jeffrey K. Liker | 2003 | |
| The Machine that Changed the World |  |
The Machine that Changed the World carefully traces the rise of the Toyota system from its take-off point in Ford’s mass production system to its spread across the world, starting with the NUMMI joint venture with General Motors in California and now advancing in Europe, Latin America, and East Asia as well. It has introduced a whole generation of managers and engineers to lean thinking. | James P. Womack | 2007 |
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| Lean and Agile Value Chain Management |  |
Lean and Agile Value Chain Management offers practical proven tactics and detailed guidance into every aspect of value chain process redesign. It provides a breakthrough start-to-finish roadmap for organizations to implement a lean and agile value chain transformation program successfully. | Ehap H. Sabri | 2010 | |
| Spend Analysis |
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Spend Analysis explains the most critical component, and the starting point, of strategic supply management and what is essential to achieving world-class performance. If you cannot analyze your spend data, many opportunities for improvement beyond the low hanging fruit are without doubt being missed. | Kirit Pandit | 2008 | |
| Creating a Lean Culture |  |
Creating a Lean Culture provides the critical piece that will make any lean transformation a dynamic continuous success. It shows you how to implement a transformation that cannot fail by developing a culture that will have all your stakeholders involved in the process and invested in the outcome. It will teach you how to build success from the top down and the bottom up at the same time. | David Mann | 2010 |