Lean Resources
Creating a Lean Culture, 2nd Edition
- David Mann
Lean Thinking (new edition)
– James Womack & Daniel Jones
The New Economics (for industry, government and education) – 2nd Edition
– W. Edwards Deming
Inside the Mind of Toyota
– Satoshi Hino
Toyota Production System Beyond Large-Scale Production
– Taiichi Ohno
The Machine that Changed the World
– James Womack, Daniel Jones and Daniel Roos
The Toyota Way to Lean Leadership – Achieving and Sustaining Excellence through Leadership Development
– Jeffery Liker & Gary Convis
The Toyota Way, 14 Management Principles
– Jeffery Liker
The Effective Executive
– Peter Drucker
The Art of Supportive Leadership
– J. Donald Walters
If Disney Ran Your Hospital
– Fred Lee
Zero Quality Control
– Shigeo Shingo
Better
– Dr. Atul Gawande
Silos, Politics and Turf Wards: A Leadership Fable about Destroying the Barriers that Turn Colleagues into Competitors
– Patrick Lencioni
Lead with Respect: A novel of lean practice
– Michael Balle & Freddy Balle
Leading the Lean Healthcare Journey: Driving Culture Change to Increase Value
– Joan Wellman
Everything I learned about Lean I learned in First Grade
– Robert Martichenko
Toyota Kata: Managing People for Improvement, Adaptiveness and Superior Results
– Mike Rother
Influencer: The Power to Change Anything
– Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, David Maxfield, Ron McMillan & Al Switzler
Gemba Walks
– James Womack
Testimonials & Results
Several years ago, the Minister of Health decided to adopt Lean methodology for health care in Saskatchewan. Jim, as the Board Chair for Saskatoon Regional Health Authority, embraced this move to a system of continuous improvement. He led by example, became trained and proficient in Lean, changed our meetings, transformed the region, and made greater strides in the improvement in healthcare delivery than we had seen in years.
- Randy Donauer, Board Member of Saskatoon Regional Health Authority
I had the privilege of knowing Bonnie for many years during my previous role as Director of Supply Chain Management with the Saskatoon Health Region. I can vouch for Bonnie’s commitment to the patient first aspect of all the work and her dedication to the values of waste elimination and safety in all aspects of the lean journey. As a lean leader she lead her assigned team to greater deliverables than projected and set in place a patient flow for orthopedic patient transfer between acute care sites in Saskatoon that is still being followed today.
- Val Klassen, Director of Supply Chain at 3sHealth and formerly Director
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