

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."


By 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


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. "


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


by Lynda Gratton
Comment: "Provides theory what kind of conditions are needed for teams and organizations to achieve extraordinary results. Examples too."


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."


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


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"


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."


by Larry Bossidy, Ram Charan, Charles Burck
Comment: "Why people, strategy and operations processes need to be treated as a whole"


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."


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..."


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


by Don Tapscott, Anthony D. Williams
Comment: "Beyond old way of seeing company, collaboration etc."


by Alf Rehn
Comment: "There is nice innovation within comfortzone and then there is more profound innovation that is not nice, but has impact"


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"


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"


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."


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."


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."