
Expansiivinen oppiminen ja yhteiskehittely työssä
by Yrjö Engeström
Comment: "Provides tools and examples: How to see the work as an Activity System, how to learn as an organization, how to jointly develop new practices for work."

Lean Software DevelopmentAn Agile ToolkitBy Mary & Tom Poppendieck
Comment: "Taking lean into SW, value stream map to see the waste. Develop - test - fix test churn. Systems thinking." Read e.g. these: Lean Programming, Managing the Pipeline & The Scaling Dilema

Today and Tomorrow - Special Edition of Ford's 1926 Classic
by Henry Ford, James K. Bakken, Norman Bodek, Samuel Crowther
Comment: "If you are into Lean, read this. Huge number of practical examples how Ford & co. improved efficiency. Many of those remain just on dream level on today's business. "

Rebirth of American Industry
by William H. Waddell, Norman Bodek
Comment: "If you wonder why lean does not really take off, read this."

Hot Spots: Why Some Teams, Workplaces, and Organizations Buzz with Energy And Innovation - And Others Don't"
by Lynda Gratton
Comment: "Provides theory what kind of conditions are needed for teams and organizations to achieve extraordinary results. Examples too."

Toyota Production System Beyond Large - Scale Production
by Taiichi Ohno (foreword Norman Bodek)
Comment: "Understand, truly, what is the need. Create the product and the system to create it in such way that it can continuously meet customer demand cost effectively. + how TPS was set up to do this."

The Future of Management
by Gary Hamel
Comment: "Innovation levels: operations, product, strategic and management. Continuous Companywide Conversation."

The Toyota Product Development System Integrating People, Process And Technology
by James M. Morgan, Jeffrey K. Liker
Comment: "Broadening the view from TPS, taking the design into equation. Set based design, Obeya, Chief Engineers. Broad set of systems and tools to continue what Ford started"

The Fifth Dicipline The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization
by Peter M. Senge
Comment: "System thinking. See beyond immediate implications. Vicious cycle, shifting burden systemic explanations to phenomena that hide behind implications. Great stuff if you are to understand or improve something."

Excecution The Discipline of Getting Things Done
by Larry Bossidy, Ram Charan, Charles Burck
Comment: "Why people, strategy and operations processes need to be treated as a whole"

Brain of the Firm A Development in Management Cybernetics
by Stafford Beer
Comment: "Do not do it 100% perfect, make it fail and learn from "mistakes". Viable Systems Model, Systems. If Ford was starting Lean 100 years ago. Beer was doing same for systems thinking 40 yrs ago."

The Neccessary Revolution How Individuals and Organisations Are Working Together to Create a Sustainable World
by Peter M. Senge, Bryan Smith, Nina Kruschwitz, Joe Laur, Sarah Schley
Comment: "Continuation of 5th discipline, applies the systems concepts and paints compelling vision where we could head..."

Building Strong Brands
by David A. Aaker
Comment: "Describes brand system and system of brands. Concrete examples too. Easy to read & understand."

Wikinomics How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
by Don Tapscott, Anthony D. Williams
Comment: "Beyond old way of seeing company, collaboration etc."

Dangerous Ideas When Provocative Thinking Becomes Your Most Valuable Asset
by Alf Rehn
Comment: "There is nice innovation within comfortzone and then there is more profound innovation that is not nice, but has impact"

Breaking the addiction to process An introduction to Agile project management
by Elizabeth Scanlon Thomas
Comment: "Easy read, gives you basics of Agile. Elizabeth, as Nokia employee, has got a lot of quotes from Nokia people included"

Inmates are running the asylum Why High-Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity
by Alan Cooper
Comment: "Meet homo logicus and homo sapiens and learn the difference. Also explains why it is so hard to develop good User Experience"

Our Iceberg Is Melting Changing and Succeeding Under Any Conditions
by John Kotter, Holger Rathgeber
Comment: "It is so easy to forget that change is not easy for peop... penguins. Cute little story with serious message and 8 steps to succeed."

Thinking, Fast and Slow Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics
by Daniel Kahneman
Comment: "Explains how we think and what are the implications when energy saving System 1 takes control over analytical System 2 whilst we do not even recognize that being the case."

Kaizen and the Art of Creative Thinking The Scientific Thinking Mechanism
by Shigeo Shingo (Jeffrey K. Liker / Norman Bodek)
Comment: "How to get true understanding and use that to make change. Despite of drag from status quo. Thinking pre TPS explained with lot of examples. Gives tools to move from thinking that you know to knowing that you know."



This is Lean Resolving the Efficiency Paradox

Toyota Kata Managing People for Improvement, Adaptiveness, and Superior Results