Transforming Strategy into Success

"Transforming Strategy into Success contains the basic philosophy of the Toyota Production System applied to management. Everybody can utilize the content as a practical guide."

Takehiro Kubo, Overseas Customer Service Tech. Div., Toyota, Japan 06/01/04

"Impressive in its breadth, staggering in its implications. If you have been waiting for "Hands On, No Nonsense" material to help you understand the Lean Journey, Transforming Strategy into Success is it. Get started! Buy it! Use it! It works! I am now on my 6th "Lean Journey" and believe this is definitely a must read for my direct reports as this systematic approach will help you accomplish the initial steps on this journey in much less time."

Dr. Willie P. Ozbirn, Director N. American Operations, Invensys Climate Controls 06/01/04

"Economic Security for nations will come from Technology Development and Commercialization of Intellectual Property. This book does an excellent job explaining about the lean concept to help companies be better, faster, cheaper and different than their competition. It is a must read . . . especially for the governments who want to have freedom, prosperity and High Tech Brain Trust jobs for their people."

Ilker Ike Bayraktar, Vice President, AeroVironment Inc. 06/01/04

"The concepts and methodology described in Transforming Strategy into Success enabled us to achieve our growth and profit objectives. It is tremendous!"

Matthias M. Rosenbaum, Former Managing Director, KS Kolbenschmidt, Germany 06/01/04

"Outstanding. A wonderful methodology to apply lean principles to management systems and the total enterprise. It works."

Steve Davis, Engineering Director, Visteon Corporation 06/01/04

"This book describes the elements ofanother approach to meeting the needs of customers. Like every system, it requires overcoming resistance to change and will only work with desire by management to commit. Some organizations will find this a concrete and understandable way to improve, particularly in customer satisfaction and profitability. For them it is a valuable handbook."

Review

"It is not often I come across a book that has something new to say on the subject of Lean and change strategy...This is a practical, usable and insightful book on the subject of creating a lean enterprise. It's simply the best book on lean strategy you can buy. I keep this book close at hand."

Stephen Parry, Founding Member, Transform4 Ltd., Visiting Fellow, LEI U.K. 05/23/05