(Productivity Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- The success of a lean manufacturing program depends far more on organizationwide leverage of lean manufacturing tools than it does on the tools themselves. To this the organization must add the human relations aspects that earn buy-in and engagement by all members of the workforce, to the extent that workers will react immediately and decisively to the presence of waste.

(Productivity Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- Traditional accounting systems have become inadequate for today’s global manufacturing environment. They are too complex and too focused on past performance. As manufacturing techniques change and become less labor intensive, accounting methods must also evolve. Regardless of what you call it, lean accounting is a management accounting system that should be part of every worker’s daily activities.

(Productivity Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- Healthcare Kaizen, by Mark Graban (Productivity Press, 2012), focuses on the principles and methods of daily continuous improvement, or kaizen, for health care professionals and organizations.

(Productivity Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- Out of the Present Crisis: Rediscovering Improvement in the New Economy, by Terence T. Burton (Productivity Press, 2012) provides a rediscovered but practical view of improvement for readers across a wide range of industries—including CEOs and their executive teams, middle managers, physicians, nurses, claims managers, politicians, union leadership, and anyone else with the desire to implement enduring improvement.