Below are some free resources relating to the
Eighth Truth about Operations and Innovation
- The Truth: http://thetentruths.com.au/Downloads/truth-8-operations.pdf
- Article by Roland Hanekroot: The world’s greatest business tool revealed http://www.thetentruths.com.au/Downloads/Greatest-Business-tool.pdf
- Website: The Process Ninja: http://www.theprocessninja.com/
- Youtube: A nice introduction to Continuous Improvement… KAIZEN meets the dishwasher unloading team http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6rRHqb5MV0&feature=related
- And here is a nice roundup of continuous improvement and the Japanse concept of “Kaizen” from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaizen
- And finally a little Youtube set of slides of an operation that could have done with some deeper thinking about Continuous improvement http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCrsebfDkvQ&feature=related
- Book: “The E-Myth revisited” by Michael Gerber Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/E-Myth-Revisited-Small-Businesses-About/dp/0887307280/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1286767103&sr=1-1
- Book: “Switch, how to change when change is hard”, by Chip Heath and Dan Heath http://heathbrothers.com/switch/
- Book: If it ain’t broke, break it, by Robert J Kriegel: http://amzn.com/0446393592
- TED Talk by Jason Fried, author of “Rework” a great book about doing things differently and experimenting: http://www.ted.com/talks/jason_fried_why_work_doesn_t_happen_at_work.html
- Video blog by Gary Hamel: Goodbye to business as usual: http://bigthink.com/ideas/16157
- Treat Life as an experiment, Tom Kelley: http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=2101
- IDEO: Big Innovation Lives Right on the Edge of Ridiculous Ideas http://tiny.cc/ideoblog
- The Importance of Play to Innovation Ted Talk by Stuart Brown: http://tiny.cc/stuartbrownted