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Two Books by Lean Enterprise Institute Authors Receive Shingo Prizes
Brookline, MA, March 10, 2006 – Lean Solutions and The Gold Mine, two books by Lean Enterprise Institute (LEI) authors, have won 2006 Shingo Research Prizes.
Lean Solutions by James P. Womack and Daniel T. Jones, and The Gold Mine by Freddy Ballé and Michael Ballé,will receive prizes during the 18th Annual Shingo Prize Conference, April 3-7, 2006, at the Northern Kentucky Convention Center, Covington, Kentucky.
Lean Solutions
The result of three years of research, this groundbreaking new book describes the fundamentally new ideas of lean provision and lean consumption as critical complements to lean production and the next leap for lean thinkers.
Lean Solutions provides compelling examples from a variety of industries, including computer technical support, retailing, healthcare, manufacturing, air travel, and others, of how to make processes more efficient while providing more value to customers. Managers at every level will benefit from the innovative ideas in Lean Solutions by learning to see consumption as a process -- a series of linked goods and services, all of which must occur seamlessly for the consumer to be satisfied.
Womack is founder and chairman of LEI. Jones is founder and chairman of the LEI affiliate, Lean Enterprise Academy in the UK. Lean Solutions is published by Free Press.
The Gold Mine
This novel about the lean transformation of a company deftly weaves together the technical and human pieces of implementing lean manufacturing in an engaging story that is both compelling and instructive. Authors Freddy and Michael Ballé have produced the first integrated and systematic approach to a set of ideas that have maximized value and minimized waste worldwide.
The Gold Mine presents all the key lean principles, ranging from well-known ideas such as pull and flow, to lesser-known yet equally important principles such as jidoka and heijunka. The book also reveals lean as a system -- using a realistic story to show how the principles are interrelated and how they connect to specific tools.
Freddy Ballé is a former executive at Renault and major European auto suppliers. Michael Ballé is associate professor (adjunct) at the American University of Paris and co-founder of the Project Lean Entreprise. He is Freddy’s son. The Gold Mine is published by the Lean Enterprise Institute.
About LEI
Based in Brookline, MA, the Lean Enterprise Institute is a nonprofit training, publishing, and research organization founded by James P. Womack, Ph.D., in August 1997. It has developed simple but powerful tools for implementing a set of ideas known as lean production and lean thinking, based initially on the Toyota Production System. For more information visit the LEI News page at http://www.lean.org/WhoWeAre/LEINews.cfm .
The Shingo Research Prize recognizes research and writing on new knowledge and understanding of lean manufacturing. The Shingo Prize program has been administered by the College of Business at Utah State University since 1988.