Past Recipients 2010
David Vrunt Ian Glenday Mark Hamel
2009
John Kiff
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 Steven J. Spear Mark Graban
Michael Hoseus
John Shook Durward K. Sobek II
Art Smalley
2008
Accounting ForWorld 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
Jerry Solomon Jean Cunningham Pascal Dennis Allen Ward Matthew May
Applying TWI to Retail Sales: Developing a Sales Boot Camp at La-Z-Boy Furniture Galleries
Mike Martyn
2007
Hoshin Kanri for the Lean Enterprise: Developing Competitive Capabilites and Managing Profit Inside the Mind of Toyota: Management Principles of Enduring Growth
Thomas Jackson Satoshi Hino Peter Middleton
Toyota Culture Chasing the Rabbit Lean Hospitals: Improving Quality, Patient Safety, and Employee Satisfaction Managing to Learn Understanding A3 Thinking
James Sutton
Lean Software Strategies: Proven Techniques for Managers and Develpers
James Morgan
Jeff Liker
Patrick Graupp H. Thomas Johnson
Robert Wrona
2006
Pascal Dennis David Mann Michael Balle Pascal Dennis
Freddy Balle
James P. Womack
Daniel T. Jones
Jeffrey Liker Donald Dinero Gwendolyn Galsworth
David Meier
Steven J. Spear Bruce Hamilton
2005
Norman Bodek Jeff Liker Jerrold M. Solomon Steven Spear Michael A. Lapre Art Smalley Rich Harris Beau Keyte James M. Morgan Robert Conti
Luk N. Van Wassenhove Chris Harris, Earl Wilson
The Toyota Product Development System: Integrated People, Process, and Technology The TWIWorkbook: 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 theWorld’s Most Powerful Production System Lean Solutions: How Companies and Customers Can CreateValue andWealth Together The ToyotaWay Fieldbook TrainingWithin Industry:The Foundation of Lean VisualWorkplace-Visual Thinking: Creating Enterprise Excellence Through the Technologies of theVisualWorkplace “Fixing Healthcare from the Inside, Today” “Toast Kaizen”
Kaikaku,The Power and Magic of Lean The ToyotaWay 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
Peter T. Ward
Rachna Shah
John R. Grout
Steven J. Spear
Cheryl S. McWatters
Douglas M. Stewart Rosemary R. Fullerton
2003
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 WorkSystems 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”
Bob Emiliani
David Stec, Lawrence Grasso, James Stodder
Nancy Hyer
Urban Wemmerlov
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
Mike Rother
Rick Harris
Seeing theWhole: Mapping the ExtendedValue Stream
Dan Jones
Jim Womack
Henry Ford
2002
Jeffrey H. Dyer Gary Conner David S. Cochran Productivity Press Development Team SME
Joachin Linck, Patrick Neise
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”
2001
Stephen A. Ruffa
Michael J. Perozziello
Paul Hawken H. Thomas Johnson
Amory Lovins, L. Hunter Lovins Anders Broms
Stefan Thoamke
Takahiro Fujimoto
Factory Logic Software
2000
Takahiro Fujimoto Charles Standard Frederick H. Abernathy Steven Spear Productivity Press Development Team
Dale Davis John T. Dunlop, Janice H. Hammond, David Weil H. Kent Bowen
1999
Raymond N. Cheser Masaaki Imai Japan Commission on Industrial Performance Mike Rother
John Shook
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 toWork and People “The Effect of ‘Front-Loading’ Problem Solving on Product Development Performance” “Streamline Software” The Evolution of a Manufacturing System at Toyota Running Today’s Factory A Stitch in Time Decoding the DNA of the Toyota Production System “Productivity Press-Shopfloor Series” “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 AddValue and Eliminate Muda
1998 Jeffrey Liker Richard J. Schonberger James P. Womack
Daniel T. Jones
Becoming Lean: Inside Stories of U.S. Manufacturing World Class Manufacturing:The Next Decade Lean Thinking: BanishWaste and CreateWealth inYour Corporation
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
1995
William F. Christopher
Carl G. Thor
B. Joseph Pine II Toshihiro Nishiguchi Rajan R. Kamath Everett E. Adam
1994
James P. Womack Ronald G. Askin Maling Ebrahimpour
1993
Satish Mehra J.T. Black
Jeffrey Liker
Daniel T. Jones, Daniel Roos M. George Mitwasi, Jeffrey B. Goldberg Barbara E. Withers
Anthony Inman Daniel Sipper
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 Technology-Management Practices
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 theWorld “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.” Determining the Critical Elements of JIT Implementation Decouplers in Robotic Manufacturing Cells: Concept & Analysis
1992
G. Gordon Schulmeyer J.T. Black Thomas Smith Stephen L. Brown
1991
Eugene Riven Laura Beth Raiman Glenn Milligan Alan Robinson Christina Guidi Jeffrey Brown
1990
Elliott Weiss Alan Robinson Jay Ward DongPing Nie Paul Doubek
Christian R. Sterling H.L. Kang Dean Schroeder Frank Pantazopoaoulos, Charles Riceman
John Leschke Dean Schroeder Derrel Brown
1989
Leslie Hiraoka Marvin Lieberman J.T. Black Davis S. Cochran Kristie K. Seawright Hunglin Wang Morris Speth James Robertson Leslie Noorlander
Lawrence Lau, Mark Williams