Past Recipients Author 2010
Title of Submission
David Vrunt, John Kiff Ian Glenday Mark Hamel
Creating Lean Dealers Breaking Through to Flow The Kaizen Event Fieldbook
Peter Hines, Pauline Found, Gary Griffiths, Richard Harrison
Staying Lean: Thriving Not Just Surviving
Jeff Liker, Michael Hoseus
Toyota Culture
Steven J. Spear Mark Graban
Chasing the Rabbit Lean Hospitals: Improving Quality, Patient Safety, and Employee Satisfaction Managing to Learn Understanding A3 Thinking
2009
John Shook Durward K. Sobek II, Art Smalley
2008 Jerry Solomon Jean Cunningham Pascal Dennis Allen Ward Matthew May Mike Martyn
2007 Thomas Jackson Satoshi Hino Peter Middleton, James Sutton James Morgan, Jeff Liker Patrick Graupp, Robert Wrona H.Thomas Johnson
2006 Pascal Dennis David Mann Michael Balle, Freddy Balle Pascal Dennis James P. Womack, Daniel T. Jones Jeffrey Liker, David Meier Donald Dinero Gwendolyn Galsworth Steven J. Spear Bruce Hamilton
Accounting For World Class Operations Easier, Simpler, Faster: Sytems Strategy for Lean IT Getting the Right Things Done: A Leader’s Guide to Planning and Execution Lean Product and Process Development The Elegant Solution: Toyota’s Formula for Mastering Innovation Applying TWI to Retail Sales: Developing a Sales Boot Camp at La-Z-Boy Furniture Galleries Hoshin Kanri for the Lean Enterprise: Developing Competitive Capabilites and Managing Profit Inside the Mind of Toyota: Management Principles of Enduring Growth Lean Software Strategies: Proven Techniques for Managers and Develpers The Toyota Product Development System: Integrated People, Process, and Technology The TWI Workbook: Essential Skills for Supervisors Lean Dilemma: Choose System Principles or Management Accounting Controls, Not Both Andy & Me: Crisis and Transformation on the Lean Journey Creating a Lean Culture: Tools to Sustain Lean Conversations The Gold Mine: A Novel of Lean Turnaround Lean Production Simplified: A Plain Language Guide to the World’s Most Powerful Production System Lean Solutions: How Companies and Customers Can Create Value and Wealth Together The Toyota Way Fieldbook Training Within Industry: The Foundation of Lean Visual Workplace-Visual Thinking: Creating Enterprise Excellence Through the Technologies of the Visual Workplace Fixing Healthcare from the Inside, Today Toast Kaizen
2005 Norman Bodek Jeff Liker Jerrold M. Solomon Steven Spear Michael A. Lapre, Luk N. Van Wassenhove Art Smalley Rich Harris, Chris Harris, Earl Wilson Beau Keyte James M. Morgan Robert Conti
Kaikaku, The Power and Magic of Lean The Toyota Way Who’s Counting? A Lean Accounting and Manufacturing Business Novel Learning to Lead at Toyota Managing Learning Curves in Factories by Creating and Transferring Knowledge Creating Level Pull Making Materials Flow The Complete Lean Enterprise: Value Stream Mapping for Administrative and Office Processes High Performance Product Development: A system Approach to a Lean Product Development Process The Effects of Just-in-Time/Lean Production on Worker Job Stress
2004 Jean E. Cunningham, Orest J. Fiume, Emily Adams Ross & Associates
Rachna Shah, Peter T. Ward Steven J. Spear Douglas M. Stewart, John R. Grout Rosemary R. Fullerton, Chryl S. McWatters
2003 Bob Emiliani, David Stec, Lawrence Grasso, James Stodder Nancy Hyer, Urban Wemmerlov Henry Ford Mike Rother, Rick Harris Dan Jones, Jim Womack
2002
Jeffrey H. Dyer Gary Conner David S. Cochran, Joachin Linck, Patrick Neise Productivity Press Development Team SME
2001 Stephen A. Ruffa, Michael J. Perozziello Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, L. Hunter Lovins H. Thomas Johnson, Anders Broms Stefan Thoamke, Takahiro Fujimoto Factory Logic Software
Real Numbers: Management Accounting in a Lean Organization Lean Manufacturing and the Environment: Research on Advanced Manufacturing Systems and the Environment and Recommendations for Leveraging Better Environmental Performance Lean Manufacturing: Context, Practice Bundles, and Performance The Essence of Just-In-Time: Embedding Diagnostic Tests in Work-Systems to Achieve Operational Excellence The Human Side of Mistake-Proofing The Role of Performance Measures and Incetive Systems in Relation to the Degree of JIT Implementation Better Thinking, Better Results: Using the Power of Lean as a Total Business Solution Reorganizing the Factory: Competing through Cellular Manufacturing Today and Tomorrow: Commerative Edition of Ford’s 1926 Classic Creating Continuous Flow: An Action Guide for Managers, Engineers and Production Associates Seeing the Whole: Mapping the Extended Value Stream Collaborative Advantage: Winning Through Extended Enterprise Supplier Networks Lean Manufacturing for the Small Shop Evaluation of the Plant Design of Two Automotive Suppliers Suing the Manufacturing Systems Design Decomposition The Eaton Lean System: An Interactive Introduction to Lean Manufacturing Principles The Manufacturing Insight Video Series Breaking the Cost Barrier: A Proven Approach to Managing and Implementing Lean Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution Profit Beyond Measure: Extraordinary Results through Attention to Work and People The Effect of ‘Front-Loading’ Problem Solving on Product Development Performance Streamline Software
2000 Takahiro Fujimoto Charles Standard, Dale Davis Frederick H. Abernathy, John T. Dunlop, Janice H. Hammond, David Weil
The Evolution of a Manufacturing System at Toyota Running Today’s Factory A Stitch in Time
Steven Spear, H. Kent Bowen Productivity Press Development Team
Decoding the DNA of the Toyota Production System Productivity Press-Shopfloor Series
1999 Raymond N. Cheser Masaaki Imai Japan Commission on Industrial Performance Mike Rother, John Shook
1998 Jeffrey Liker Richard J. Schonberger James P. Womack, Daniel T. Jones
1997 Toshihiro Nishiguchi James W. Brackner, Richard L. Jenson, Clifford R. Skousen Roger S. Ahlbrandt, Richard J. Fruehan, Frank Giarratani Allen Ward, Jeff Liker, John J. Christian, Durward K. Sobek II
1996 Jeff Liker, John E. Ettlie, John C. Campbell Ron Roncarti, Cheryl Tanner
The Effect of Japanese Kaizen on Employee Motivation in U.S. Manufacturing Gemba Kaizen: A Commonsense, Low Cost Approach to Management Made in Japan: Revitalizing Japanese Manufacturing for Economic Growth Learning to See: Value Stream Mapping to Add Value and Eliminate Muda Becoming Lean: Inside Stories of U.S. Manufacturing World Class Manufacturing: The Next Decade Lean Thinking: Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation Managing Product Development Managing Accounting in Support of Manufacturing Excellence The Renaissance of American Steel: Lessons for Managers in Competitive Industries The Second Toyota Paradox: How Delaying Decisions Can Make Better Cars Faster Engineered in Japan: Japanese TechnologyManagement Practices
1995 William F. Christopher, Carl G. Thor B. Joseph Pine II Toshihiro Nishiguchi Rajan R. Kamath, Jeff Liker Everett E. Adam
1994 James P. Womack, Daniel T. Jones, Daniel Roos Ronald G. Askin, M. George Mitwasi, Jeffrey B. Goldberg Maling Ebrahimpour, Barbara E. Withers
The Handbook of Productivity Measurement and Improvement Mass Customization: The New Frontier in Business Competition Strategic Industrial Sourcing-The Japanese Advantage A Second Look at Product Development Alternative Quality Improvement Practices & Organization Performance
The Machine That Changed the World Determining the Number of Kanbans in Multi-Item JIT Systems Employee Involvement in Quality Improvement: A Comparison of American and Japanese Manufacturing Firms Operating in the U.S.
1993 Satish Mehra, Anthony Inman J.T. Black, Daniel Sipper
1992 G. Gordon Schulmeyer J.T. Black Thomas Smith Stephen L. Brown, Christian R. Sterling
1991 Eugene Riven, H.L. Kang Laura Beth Raiman Glenn Milligan Alan Robinson, Dean Schroeder Christina Guidi, Frank Pantazopoaoulos, Charles Riceman Jeffrey Brown
1990 Elliott Weiss, John Leschke Alan Robinson, Dean Schroeder Jay Ward DongPing Nie, Derrel Brown Paul Doubek
1989
Leslie Hiraoka Marvin Lieberman, Lawrence Lau, Mark Williams J.T. Black Davis S. Cochran Kristie K. Seawright Hunglin Wang Morris Speth James Robertson Leslie Noorlander
Determining the Critical Elements of JIT Implementation Decouplers in Robotic Manufacturing Cells: Concept & Analysis