Norman Bodek

Norman Bodek
Occupation	Author

Norman Bodek is an author and the President of PCS Press, started Productivity Inc. and Press in 1979 and since 1999 has focused on Toyota's second pillar "Respect for People, employee-development and employee-empowerment."^[1]

Bodek has published books and training materials and also led conferences and seminars on Total Production System - Lean, Total Productive Maintenance, Kaizen Blitz, 5S (sometimes known as 6-S), Poka-Yoke, Cell Design, Kanban, SMED, CEDAC, Visual Factory, and Lean Accounting.

Over the course of 30 years, Bodek traveled to Japan 75 times, visiting over 350 plants, and published over 400 Japanese management books in the English language. He has met and studied the teachings of Deming, Juran, Crosby, and Ishikawa, and published the works of Akao, Ohno, Shingo just to name a few.

Bibliography

• The Idea Generator – Quick and Easy Kaizen (PCS Press 2001), co-authored with Bunji Tozawa
• The Idea Generator – Workbook (PCS Press 2002)
• Kaikaku: The Power and Magic of Lean (PCS Press 2004)
• All You Gotta Do Is Ask (PCS Press 2005), co-authored with Chuck Yorke
• Rebirth of American Industry (PCS Press 2005), co-authored with Bill Waddell

References

1. ^ Hal (21 November 2005). "The godfather of lean". http://www.reformingprojectmanagement.com/2005/11/21/555/. Retrieved 14 May 2011. 

External links

• PCS Press

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