Recommended Reading Creating an Effective Management System: Integrating Policy Deployment, TWI, and Kata By: TWI Institute Team Based on their extensive experience with organizational development and hands-on leadership in policy deployment, TWI and Kata, the authors describe their own journey in helping organizations discover and develop systems that function like well-designed and smooth-running machines while capturing the humanistic aspects of the foundational skills that emphasize the inherent synergy of the system. Buy Book
Recommended Reading Implementing TWI: Creating and Managing a Skills-Based Culture By: TWI Institute Team This unique book describes the experiences of a multitude of companies both large and small in various industries using TWI today, more than 60 years after the creation of these powerful programs Buy Book
Recommended Reading The TWI Workbook: Essential Skills for Supervisors By: TWI Institute Team Written in a practical, easy-to-understand style, this book is directed at first-line supervisors with a strong focus on learning how to put the TWI methods into use. Buy Book
Recommended Reading Getting to Standard Work in Healthcare: Using TWI to Create a Foundation for Quality Care By: TWI Institute Team This book describes how to incorporate the most widely used Training Within Industry (TWI) module, Job Instruction (JI), to facilitate performance excellence and boost employee morale in a healthcare organization. Buy Book
Recommended Reading Building a Global Learning Organization: Using TWI to Succeed with Strategic Workforce Expansion in the LEGO® Group By: TWI Institute Team How a multinational company developed a global structure for learning based on the TWI (Training Within Industry) program to create and sustain standardized work across multiple language and cultural platforms. Buy Book
Recommended Reading Kaizen: The Key to Japan’s Competitive Success By: TWI Institute Team The author organizes the management philosophies, theories and tools that have been developed and used over the years in Japan under the single concept of Kaizen. Buy Book
Recommended Reading Gemba Kaizen: A Common Sense, Low-Cost Approach to Management By: TWI Institute Team How to focus the result-boosting techniques of Kaizen in the workplace (Gemba), the place where the products or services are performed. Buy Book
Recommended Reading The Toyota Way Fieldbook: A Practical Guide for Implementing Toyota’s 4Ps By: TWI Institute Team The authors state their book is an attempt to clarify the thought process used by Toyota and how those ideas are applied and used to create the tremendous success Toyota has achieved and the critical role TWI has in the area of employee training since 1951. Buy Book
Recommended Reading Toyota Talent: Developing Your People the Toyota Way By: TWI Institute Team This book walks you through the methodology used by Toyota to grow high-performance individuals from within with a focus on TWI Job Instruction Training. Buy Book
Recommended Reading Toyota Culture By: TWI Institute Team The authors provide an inside story on creating and maintaining a people-centric culture that sustains consistent growth, innovation, profitability and excellence. Buy Book
Recommended Reading Toyota Way to Lean Leadership: Achieving and Sustaining Excellence Through Leadership Development By: TWI Institute Team The missing link to long-term Lean success! Despite the fact that companies worldwide have adopted Lean production, none have sustained the same levels of excellence as Toyota. Why? Buy Book
Recommended Reading The 7 Kata: Toyota Kata, TWI, and Lean Training By: TWI Institute Team Conrad Soltero and Patrice Boutier, CRC Press, 2012 Buy Book