Book shelf selections for Corporate Level Operations Managers

Starters - Business Novels 1. Goldratt, E.M. (2001), Necessary but not sufficient, North River Press. 2. Goldratt, E.M. (1997), The critical chain, The North River Press, ISBN 0-88427153-6. 3. Goldratt, E.M. (1994), Its Not Luck, The North River Press, ISBN 0-566-076276. 4. Goldratt, E.M. (1990), The Hay Stack Syndrome: Sifting Information out of the data ocean, The North River Press. 5. Goldratt, E.M. and Cox, J. (1986), The Race, The North River Press. 6. Goldratt, E.M. and Cox, J. (1984), The Goal, The North River Press. Creating Manufacturing Excellence Road Maps 7. Hall, R. (1983), Zero Inventories, Dow Jones Irwin. 8. Hayes, R.H. and Wheelwright S.C. (1984), Restoring Our Competitive Edge: Competing through manufacturing, John Wiley and Sons. 9. Mahadevan, B. (1999) The New Manufacturing Architecture, Tata McGraw Hill, New Delhi, ISBN 0-07-463208-6. 10. Ohno, T. (1992), Toyota Production System: Beyond large scale production, Productivity Press (I) Pvt. Ltd. 11. Schonberger, R.J. (1982), Japanese Manufacturing Techniques: Nine hidden lessons in Simplicity, The Free Press. 12. Schonberger, R.J. (1986), World Class Manufacturing: The lessons of simplicity applied, The Free Press. 13. Schonberger, R.J. (1990), Building a Chain of Customers: Linking business functions to create the world class company, The Free Press. 14. Schonberger, R.J. (1996), World Class Manufacturing: The next decade, The Free Press. 15. Schonberger, R.J. (2001), Lets Fix it: Overcoming the crisis in Manufacturing, Free Press, ISBN: 0-7432-1551-6. 16. Womack, J.P., Jones, D.T. and Roos, (1990), The Machine that changed the world, 17. Womack, J.P. and Jones, D.T. (1996), Lean thinking, Touchstone Books, ISBN:0-684-81976-7. The Nitty- Gritty tools for creating manufacturing excellence 18. Fukuda, R. (1990), CEDAC A tool for continuous systematic improvement, Productivity Press. 19. Greif, M. (1992), The Visual Factory: Building participation through shared information, Productivity Press. 20. Imai, M (1991), Kaizen: The key to Japans competitive success, McGraw-Hill International Edition. 21. Kobayashi, I. (1990), Keys to Workplace Improvement, Productivity Press.

Book shelf selections for Corporate Level Operations Managers

22. Shingo, S. (1985), A Revolution in Manufacturing: The SMED System, Productivity Press. 23. Suzaki, K. (1987), The New Manufacturing Challenge, The Free Press. 24. Suzaki, K. (1993), The New Shop Floor Management, The Free Press. 25. The Canon Production System: Creative involvement of the total work force by Japan Management Association, Productivity Press. 1987. Thinking out of core manufacturing process 26. Aga, R. (1994), Changing the Mindset: Reflections of a Chief Executive, Tata McGraw Hill, New Delhi. 27. Davenport, T., (1998), Mission Critical, Harvard Business School Press. 28. Hammer, M. and Champy, J. (1993), Reengineering the corporation: A manifesto for business revolution, Nicholas Brealy Publishing, London, ISBN 1 85788 056 0. 29. Jayaraman, M.S., Natarajan, G and Rangaramanujam, A.V. (1994), Business Process Reengineering Tata McGraw Hill, New Delhi, ISBN 0-07-462169-6. 30. Senge, P.M. (1990), The Fifth Discipline: The art and practice of the learning organization, Currency Doubleday, ISBN 0-385-26095-4. 31. Stalk (Jr.) J. and Hout, T.M. (1990), Competing Against Time: How time based competition is reshaping global markets, The Free Press. Manufacturing Performance Costing Control Issues 32. Cooper, R. (1995), When lean enterprises collide: competing through confrontation, Harvard Business School Press 33. Dixon, Nanni and Vollmann, T.E. (1990), The New performance challenge: Measuring Operations for World Class Competition, Business One Irwin 34. Johnson, H.T. and Kaplan, R.S. (1987), Relevance Last: The rise and fall of management accounting, Harvard Business School Press. 35. Johnson, H.T. (1992), Relevance Regained: From top down control to bottom up empowerment, The Free Press. 36. Kaplan, R.S. (1990), Measures of Manufacturing Excellence, Harvard Business School Press. Developing Strategic Thinking 37. Slywotzky, A.J. (1996), Value migration: How to think several moves ahead of the competition, Harvard Business School Press, ISBN 0-87584-6732-7. 38. Markides, C.C. (1999), All the right moves: A guide to crafting breakthrough strategy, Harvard Business School Press. 39. Christensen, G.M. (1997), The innovators dilemma, Harvard Business School Press.

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Good text books for conceptual clarity 40. Chase, Aquilano, and Jacob, (1999), Operations Management McGraw Hill, 9th Edition. 41. Juran, J.M. and Gryna, F.M. (1993), Quality Planning and Analysis, Tata McGraw Hill, New Delhi, ISBN 0-07-462179-3. 42. Nicholas, J, (1998), Competitive Manufacturing Management, Irwin McGraw Hill, ISBN 0-256-21727-0. 43. Umble, M.M. and Srikanth, M.L. (1990), Synchronous Manufacturing: Principles for world class excellence, South-Western Publishing Company. 44. Weist, J.D. and Levy, F.K. (1988), A management guide to PERT/CPM, Prentice Hall of India Pvt. Ltd., ISBN 0-87692-132-2.