Toyota Way Academy Bibliography
Background
This bibliography section contains numerous books, articles, papers, monographs, speeches, and dissertations that we have found helpful and insightful over the years. Lists such as these can never be exhaustive, so we would like to hear from you with your suggestions. Also, not everything in this list pertains directly to the world of Lean. Some of the items shown below pre-date (1700 - 1919) the bulk of automotive history but have value in that they show how the processes, concepts, and methods developed outside of the automotive industry and were later synthesized by the auto manufacturers. Some of the items are also on general topics such as leadership, Information Technology, Health Care, Team Building, and Supply Chains.
If you have a favorite book or article that is not shown below, please send us an e-mail with the title, author, and a link to where it can be found and we will include it.
BOOKS
Liker et al
Womack and Jones et al
Taiichi Ohno
Shigeo Shingo
Maasaki Imai
Henry Ford
John Shook et al
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Articles From Various Sources
Case Studies – These are great for lean implementation team discussions
- Forefront Manufacturing Case Study – Richard Ivey School of Business – 2006
- Matching Manufacturing Capacity to Sales Demand – Kent Bowen and Jonathan Groberg – 2002
- Johnson Controls, Inc. – Automotive System Group Georgetown Kentucky Plants – 1993
- Toyota Motor Manufacturing, U.S.A., Inc. – Kazuhiro Mishina (HBR) – 1992
Leadership Articles – From Kotter to Watanabe, these articles cover the entire topic
- The Neuroscience of Leadership – David Rock and Jeffrey Schwartz – 2006
- Discovering Your Authentic Leadership – Bill George, Peter Sims, Andrew N. McLean, and Diana Mayer – 2007
- Leadership Run Amok: The Destructive Potential of Overachievers – Scott W. Spreier, Mary H. Fontaine, and Ruth L. Malloy – 2006
- Lean Attitude – Michael Ballé – 2005
- Learning to Lead at Toyota – Steven J. Spear – 2004
- Level 5 Leadership: The Triumph of Humility and Fierce Resolve – Jim Collins – 2001
- What Leaders Really Do – John P. Kotter – 2000
- Leadership That Gets Results – Daniel Goleman – 2000
Change – Wouldn’t we all love to know how to be effective at this?
- What You Really Need to Know About Change – Clayton M. Christensen, Matt Marx, and Howard H. Stevenson – 2006
- One More Time: How Do You Motivate Employees? – Frederick Herzberg – 2002
- Why Do Employees Resist Change? – Paul Strebel – 1996
- Campaigning for Change – Larry Hirschhorn – 2002
Supply Chains – We’re only as strong as our weakest supplier
- Organizational Learning and Purchase-Supply Relations in Japan: Hitachi, Matsushita, and Toyota Compared – James R. Lincoln, Christina L. Ahmadjian, and Eliot Mason – 1998
- Toyota: Service Chain Management – Stanford Graduate School of Business – 2005
- Building Deep Supplier Relationships – Jeffrey K. Liker and Thomas Y. Choi – 2004
- Toyota: Demand Chain Management – Stanford Graduate School of Business – 2005
- Japanese Automakers, U.S. Suppliers and Supply-Chain Superiority – Jeffrey K. Liker and Yen-Chun Wu – 2000
- Toyota Motor Corporation: Target Costing System – Robin Cooper and Takao Tanaka – 1997
- 2007 Annual OEM Survey By Suppliers – Planning Perspectives, Inc. – 2008
- The Bullwhip Effect in Supply Chains – Hau L. Lee, V. Padmanabhan, and Seungjin Whang – 1997
- Aligning Incentives in Supply Chains – V.G. narayanan and Ananth Raman – 2004
- Leading a Supply Chain Turnaround – Reuben E. Stone – 2004
- Rapid-Fire Fulfillment – Kasra Ferdows, Michael A. Lewis, and Jose A.D. Machuca – 2004
- The Triple-A Supply Chain – Hau L. Lee – 2004
- We’re in This Together – Douglas M. Lambert and A. Michael Knemeyer – 2004
Training – A critically important aspect of business, but often the first thing cut
- A Blueprint for Success: Spend More on Training – Jeffrey Pfeffer - 2007
- Intensive Industrial Training Under Government Auspices in War Time – A.B. Wolfe – 1919
- Interim Report on Training Within Industry 1940-1945 – War Manpower Commission – 1945
- The Roots of Lean – Jim Huntzinger – 2005
- Time and Motion Regained – Paul S. Adler – 1993
- Training Labor: A Necessary Reconstruction Policy – C.T. Clayton – 1919
- Why Standard Work is not Standard: Training Within Industry Provides an Answer – Jim Huntzinger – 2006
Lean Product and Process Development – Where most of your costs are
- Toyota’s Real Secret: Hint, It’s Not TPS – John Teresko – 2007
- Adapting Real Options to New Product Development by Modeling the Second Toyota Paradox – David N. Ford and Durward K. Sobek, II – 2005
- Another Look at How Toyota Integrates Product Development – Durward K. Sobek, II, Jeffrey K. Liker, and Allen C. Ward – 1998
- Involving Suppliers in Product Development in the United States and Japan: Evidence for Set-Based Concurrent Engineering – Jeffrey K. Liker, Durward K. Sobek, II, Allen C. Ward, and John J. Cristiano – 1996
- Multi-project Strategy, Design Transfer, and Project Performance: A Survey of Automobile Development Projects in the US and Japan - Kentaro Nobeoka and Michael A. Cusumano – 1995
- Toyota’s Principles of Set-Based Concurrent Engineering – Durward K. Sobek, II, Allen C. Ward, and Jeffrey K. Liker – 1999
- The Second Toyota Paradox: How Delaying Decisions Can Make Better Cars Faster – Allen Ward, Jeffrey K. Liker, John J. Cristiano, and Durward K. Sobek, II – 1995
Strategy and Alignment – Without a direction, how will your transformation work?
- Achieving Strategic Alignment: From Top to Bottom – Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton – 2006
- The Secrets to Successful Strategy Execution – Gary L. Neilson, Karla L. Martin, and Elizabeth Powers – 2008
- Total Strategic Alignment – Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton – 2006
- Beyond World-Class: The New Manufacturing Strategy – Robert H. Hayes and Gary P. Pisano – 1994
- Building a leadership Brand – Dave Ulrich and Norm Smallwood – 2007
- Manufacturing’s Crisis: New Technologies, Obsolete Organizations – Robert H. Hayes and Ramchandran Jaikumar – 1988
- Mastering the Management System – Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton – 2008
- Target Setting – Robert S. Kaplan – 2006
Toyota articles – It never hurts to see what the best are up to
- Decoding the DNA of the Toyota Production System – Steven Spear and H. Kent Bowen – 2006
- Just in Time Production Controlled by Kanban – Harvard Business School Lecture – 1984
- Learning Through Alliances: general Motors and NUMMI – Andrew C. Inkpen – 2005
- Toyota Motor Corporation: Launching Prius – Forest L. Reinhardt, Dennis A. Yao, and Masako Egawa – 2006
- Toyota’s Environmental Initiatives – Katsuaki Watanabe – 2008
- Accounting for Pensions at Toyota and Ford – Gregory S. Miller, Douglas J. Skinner, and Laura E. Donohue – 2005
- Beyond Toyota: How to Root Out Waste and Pursue Perfection – James P. Womack and Daniel T. Jones – 1996
- The Toyota Phenomenon – Ernst C. Glauser – 2005
- Creating Sustainable Competitive Advantage: The Toyota Philosophy and its Effects – M. Reza Vaghefi – 2002
- Champions of Profitable Growth – G. Bennett Stewart III – 2004
Decision Making/Problem Solving – A 21st century competitive advantage
- Building Ambidexterity into an Organization – Julian Birkinshaw and Cristina Gibson – 2004
- Fix the Process, Not the Problem – Harold Sirkin and George Stalk, Jr. – 1990
- How to Define Your Decision Problem to Solve the Right Problem – John S. Hammond, Ralph L. Keeney, and Howard Raiffa – 2007
- The Hidden Traps in Decision Making – John S. Hammond, Ralph L. Keeney, and Howard Raiffa – 1998
Management Issues – Everyday issues that keep us from being effective
- Management Time: Who’s Got the Monkey? – William Oncken Jr. and Donald L. Waas – 1974
- The Enemies of Trust – Robert Galford and Anne Seibold Drapeau – 2003
- Managing Your Boss – John J. Gabarro and John P. Kotter – 1980
Coaching and Mentoring – The heart of Toyota people development
- Eight Ways to Build Collaborative Teams – Lynda Gratton and Tamara J. Erickson – 2007
- Hiring Without Firing – Claudio Fernandez-Araoz – 1999
- What Coaching Is All About: Its Place in Management – HBR – 2006
- Why Mentoring Matters in a Hypercompetitive World – Thomas J. DeLong, John J. Gabarro, and
- Robert J. Lees – 2008
Japanese Factories – Where the studies all began
- Postindustrial Manufacturing – Ramchandran Jaikumar – 1986
- Dedicated Assets: Japan’s Manufacturing Edge – Jeffrey H. Dyer – 1994
- Why Japanese Factories Work – Robert H. Hayes – 1981
- Why Some Factories Are More Productive Than Others – Robert H. Hayes and Kim B. Clark – 1986
Others – Good articles on various topics
- Fixing Healthcare from the Inside, Today – Steven J. Spear – 2005
- A Comparison of Production-Line Control Mechanisms – Asbjoern M. Bonvik, Christopher Couch, and Stanley B. Gershwin – 1996
- The Thinking Production System – Michael Ballé, Godefroy Baufallet, Art Smalley, and Durward K. Sobek – 2006
- Radically Simple IT – David M. Upton and Bradley R. Staats – 2008
White Papers
- Walter E. Flanders: His Role in the Mass Production of Automobiles – E.J. Finney
- The Rest is Coming Soon!
Speeches and Interviews
- Michael Ballé
- Katsuaki Watanabe
- More Coming Soon!
PhD Dissertations
- Coming Soon!