Books I have been reading

Favorite			Mgmt.	Eng.	Prod. Dev.	Other
	Lean Thinking: Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your corporation James P. Womack and Daniel T. Jones 1996, Simon & Schuster, New York.	Good overview of the principles of lean thinking. Targeted at managerial types. A good set of examples	X
X	Thinking Strategically: The competitive edge in business, politics, and everyday life Avinask K. Dixit and Barry J. Nalebuff 1991, W. W. Norton & Company, New York	Great introduction to game theory for non-economists.				Game theory and decision making
	Commercializing New Technologies: Getting from Mind to Market Vijay K. Jolly	Good overview of new technology introduction in the context of the entire product development and delivery process. Lots of short example but few long in-depth case studies.	X		X
X	The machine that changed the world: The story of Lean Production James P. Womack, Daniel T. Jones, and Daniel Roos Harperperennial Library, 1991	Great comparison of Japanese, US and European approaches to automotive design and manufacture.	X	X	some
	Just another car factor? Lean Production and its discontents James Rinehart, Christopher Huxley, and David Roberston ILR Press, Ithaca NY	Study of CAMI Automotive and lean implementation from the union point of view. Good look at the "other side of lean"	X
	Farewell to the Factory: Auto workers in the late twentieth century Ruth Milkman University of California Press, Berkley, 1997	More general look at factory improvements and its impacts on labor.	X
	The Myths of Japanese Quality Ray and Cindelyn Eberts Prentice Hall PTR, Upper Saddle River NJ, 1995	The other side of Japanese quality. Written from the view point of a visitor to Japan.		some	some
	Strategic Management of Teams David I. Cleland John Wiley & Sons, Inc, New York, 1996	Overview of teams, team structures, organizing teams, and some cautionary notes. Not specifically focused on product development teams.	X
	Leading Product Development : The Senior Manager's Guide to Creating and Shaping the Enterprise Steven C. Wheelwright and Kim B. Clark	Management view point of how to lead product development.	X
	Taguchi Techniques for Quality Engineering : Loss Function, Orthogonal Experiments, Parameter and Tolerance Design Phillip J. Ross McGraw Hill Text, New York, 1996	Taguchi methods of orthogonal experiment design, parameter and tolerance design, etc. Good but Phadke's book is better.		X
X	Quality Engineering Using Robust Design Madhav Shridhar Phadke Prentice Hall Press, 1989	Taguchi methods of orthogonal experiment design, parameter and tolerance design, etc. Very clear and concise -- probably the best book I found on the subject.		X
	Integrated Process Design and Development Dan L. Shunk Irwin Professional Pub, 1992	Overview of how to develop processes in an integrated manner. This book provides some overview of tools and techniques. Nothing you can't find in other, better books.	X		X
	Design for Manufacture : Strategies, Principles and Techniques John Corbett, Michael Dooner, Christopher Pym Addison-Wesley Pub Co, 1991	Collection of articles on the subject of DFM. Not worth the $50 price.		X
X	The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies cause great firms to fail Clayton M. Christensen Harvard Business School Press, 1997	Great book on the role of new innovation in market places. Christensen has done a wonderful job of detailing out with examples and data how market trends are not always your friend.	x	x	x
X	The Pdma Handbook of New Product Development Milton D. Rosenau John Wiley & Sons, 1996	Collection of articles on a wide variety of subjects. Good starting point for learning new research in the field of product development	x	x	x
X	Managing New Product and Process Development : Text and Cases Kim B. Clark, Steven C. Wheelwright Free Press, 1992	Same book as Revolutionizing product development with additional cases. Good introduction to product development from the managerial prospective. Little technical detail.		x	x
	Developing Products in Half the Time: New Rules, New Tools, Second Edition Preston G. Smith, Donald G. Reinertsen John Wiley & Sons, 1997	Typical of the "how to do product development" text. A lot of high level guidance but very little new material. No cases and limited examples.	x		x
X	Mastering the Dynamics of Innovation James M. Utterback Harvard Business School Pr; 1996	Great text on how to manage innovation. Also talks about classic patterns and problems in innovation Case studies and examples are used effectively.	x		x	innovation
X	Product Development Performance : Strategy, Organization, and Management in the World Auto Industry Kim B. Clark, Takahiro Fujimoto Harvard Business School Pr,1991	Detailed case study of product development in US vs. Japan. Similar feel to The machine that changed the world, but it focuses specifically on product development	x	x	x
Still adding books..... Please email me if there are others that you have read that should be added to the list!
Books recommended by my industrial contacts....
Recommended by Gary Hunt at Sunstrand	Managing The Design Factory: A Product Developers's Toolkit Donald G. Reinertsen, 1997 The Free Press.	Don is co-author of Developing Products in Half the Time along with Preston Smith. Serves as a good extension to Developing Products in Half the Time. These books may not be very interesting from an intellectual point of view, but all three strike home to Real Life in product development. In spite of the research done regarding the impact of overloaded development pipelines, a predominant belief is that everyone in an organization should be kept as busy as possible (the factory machine utilization syndrom) with total disregard for lean practices.
Recommended by Gary Hunt at Sunstrand	Setting The Pace in Product Development: A Guide to Product And Cycle-Time Excellence Michael E. McGrath (PRTM), 1996 Butterworth-Heinemann.
Chris Hull Boeing St. Louis	All I need to Know about Mfg. I learned in Joe's Garage William B. Miller Bayrock Pr, 1997	It's a great book, and a short and easy read. I read it and then routed it around our group here at work.
Melissa Tata. MIT	Becoming Lean: Inside Stories of U.S. Manufacturers. Liker, Jeffrey K. Productivity Press. Portland, OR. 1997.
Kent Kuiper, Boeing	Statistics for Experimenters : An Introduction to Design, Data Analysis, and Model Building George E. P. Box, J. Stuart Hunter, William Gordon Hunter John Wiley & Sons	A Classic book in the DOE area
Tom Mix, Boeing	Blur : The Speed of Change in the Connected Economy Christopher Meyer, Stan Davis Perseus Pr, 1998