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Book: The Wide Lens: A New Strategy for Innovation
Author: Ron Adner
Ron Adner invites readers to take a larger view of technology to achieve success. Innovative companies tend to focus on their new technology in isolation and often ignore the larger technology ecosystem required for successful adoption. Adner provides examples such as Philips' high-definition television in the mid-1980s that was a breakthrough in technology, but depended on other innovations such as high definition cameras and transmission standards. He points to Sony suffering a similar blind spot with its e-reader where customers did not have easy access to e-books. Both failures resulted in huge write-downs that left them with little to show for their innovation. Years later, these innovations became successful with the supporting technology and infrastructure in place.
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Book: Creating a Lean and Green Business System
Authors: Keivan Zokaei, Hunter Lovins, Andy Wood, and Peter Hines
Publisher: CRC Press
Creating a Lean and Green Business System is packed with case studies and examples of companies going lean and green simultaneously. The book reminds us that there's so much more to 'lean' than simply cutting waste and reducing costs to protect the bottom line. Indeed, the authors suggest that those companies that obsess about waste and cost reduction, to the exclusion of all else, will never secure the profound cultural changes on which true success increasingly depends.
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Book: The Advantage
Author: Patrick Lencioni
Publisher: Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA, 2012
The Advantage proposes a new approach to achieve organizational improvement. Rather than spending resources in conventional improvement areas such as marketing, strategy or technology, Lencioni suggests focusing on eliminating the root causes of politics, dysfunction, confusion and bureaucracy. Lencioni believes too many leaders are focused on becoming smarter. Instead, leaders should focus on becoming healthier, which allows an organizaion to utilize the intelligence and expertise already availble.
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Book: Everybody's Business: Engaging Your Total Enterprise to Boost Quality, Speed, Savings and Innovation
Author: Marta Wilson
Published by: Greenleaf Book Group Press, 2012
Hardcover, 155 pages
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Book: Lean Production Simplified, Second Edition
A Plain-Language Guide to the World's Most Powerful Production System
Author: Pascal Dennis
Published by: Productivity Press, 2007
Shingo Prize winner for Excellence in Manufacturing Research, 2006
Soft Cover, 192 Pages, US $32.42
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 Book: Design for Six Sigma in Product and Service Development: Applications and Case Studies
Authors: Elizabeth A. Cudney, Ph.D., Missouri University of Science & Technology, and Sandra Furterer, Ph.D., Southern Polytechnic State University
Published by: CRC Press, June 2012
Hard Cover, 444 pages, U.S. $79.95
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.jpg "Book Browse - May 2012 - SEMS") Book: Managing Performance in Turbulent Times: Analytics and Insight
Authors: Andy Neely, director of the Cambridge Service Alliance, and Ed Barrows
Published by: John Wiley & Sons, 2011
Hard Cover, 277 Pages, U.S. $49.95
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Book: Staying Lean, Second Edition
Authors: Peter Hines, Pauline Found, Gary Griffiths and Richard Harrison
Published by: CRC Press/Productivity Press
Soft Cover, 259 pages, U.K. £25.99 or U.S. $39.95
This book is written for all the individuals and companies that are applying a lean approach. The first edition of this publication received a Shingo Research & Professional Publication Prize in 2009. Explaining how to create and sustain a lean business, it followed Cogent Power's early journey. This new edition explores how the journey continued after several senior managers moved on, steel prices fell and the credit crisis struck. Did they manage to thrive, not just survive? More about the book
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