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Recommended Reading

GENERAL TLS
   Profitability With No Boundries -- Pirasteh/Fox
   Velocity: Using Lean, Six Sigma & the TOC to Achieve Breakthrough Performance -- Jacob, Bergland, Cox
   The Ultimate Improvement Cycle : Maximizing Profits through the Integration of Lean, Six Sigma,             and the Theory of Constraints -- Sproull
   Blue Light! -- Fox/Fox
   Thinking Process: TP Lean & Six Sigma -- LaTurner

Theory of Constraints
   The Goal - Goldratt/Cox
   The Race - Goldratt/Fox
   Deming and Goldratt – Lepore/Cohen
   The World of the TOC: A Review – Mabin/Balderstone

Lean
   Toyota Production System- Ohno
   Toyota Kata - Mike Rother
   The Machine That Changed The World - Womack

Six Sigma
   The Six Sigma Handbook, Third Edition by Thomas Pyzdek
   Six Sigma Management - ?
   The Theory of Profound Knowledge - Deming

THINKING PROCESSES
   It's Not Luck – Goldratt
   Breaking the Constraints to World-Class Performance – Bill Dettmer
   Securing the Future: Strategies for Exponential Growth Using TOC – Kendall
   Thinking for a Change - Lisa Scheinkopf

TOC ACCOUNTING
   The Measurement Nightmare – Smith
   MGMT Dynamics: Merging TOC Accounting to Drive Improvement - Caspari,
   TOC & Its Implications for Management Accounting – Noreen/Smith/Mackey
   Throughput Accounting – Corbett
   Making Throughput #1 – Fox

MANUFACTURING
   Manufacturing at Warp Speed – Schragenheim/Dettmer
   Re-Engineering the Manufacturing System: Applying TOC – Stein
   Synchronous MGMT: Profit-Based Mfg for the 21st Century – Srikanth/ Umble
   Regaining Competitiveness: Putting the Goal to Work - Srikanth

BUSINESS STRATEGY
   Strategic Navigation: A Systems Approach to Business Strategy - Dettmer
   Beyond Strategic Vision: Effective Corporate Action w.Hoshin Planning - Cowley
   MGMT Dilemmas: The TOC Approach to Problem Identification and Solutions - Schragenheim

MARKETING & Sales
   Reengineering The Sales Process -- Roff-Marsh
   Viable Vision: Transforming Total Sales Into Net Profit – Kendall
   Cash Machine Using Theory of Constraints for Sales Management – Klapholz
   Unblock the Power of Your Sales Force – Woehr/Legat

ERP SYSTEMS/Software
   Necessary But Not Sufficient – Goldratt/Schragenheim/Ptak
   ERP: Tools, Techniques, & Applications for Supply Chains- Ptak/Schragenheim

PROJECT MANAGEMENT
   Critical Chain – Goldratt
   Critical Chain Project Management – Leach
   Lean Project Management – Leach
   Lean Project Leadership --Leach