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Implementing TWI: Creating and Managing a Skills-Based Culture
Featuring strategies employed in Lean, this volume describes the experiences of organizations using TWI more than 60 years after the Training Within Industry program turned the U.S. into the industrial giant that won World War II. Based on their experience implementing TWI in organizations as diverse as Virginia Mason Medical Center and Donnelly Manufacturing, Shingo Prize Winners Patrick Graupp and Robert Wrona prove why many consider them the most successful TWI trainers in the world.
Their hands-on manual provides the tools and templates that can turnyour company’s employees into a skilled and invested workforce capable of realizing unprecedented profits.
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If you want to get from interesting displays to true standardized work, read this book.— Jeffrey K. Liker, author, The Toyota Way
…uses cases to explain how to create no-nonsense culture change by teaching people how to do work differently, and how to relate to each other differently in order to work more effectively.— Robert Doc Hall, Editor-in Chief, Target Magazine
Graupp and Wrona bring many examples of companies that [improved] competitiveness by improving their capacity to fully engage their workforce … .—Steven Spear Sr. Lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Management
Their hands-on manual provides the tools and templates that can turnyour company’s employees into a skilled and invested workforce capable of realizing unprecedented profits.
Praise
If you want to get from interesting displays to true standardized work, read this book.— Jeffrey K. Liker, author, The Toyota Way
…uses cases to explain how to create no-nonsense culture change by teaching people how to do work differently, and how to relate to each other differently in order to work more effectively.— Robert Doc Hall, Editor-in Chief, Target Magazine
Graupp and Wrona bring many examples of companies that [improved] competitiveness by improving their capacity to fully engage their workforce … .—Steven Spear Sr. Lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Management
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April 9, 2012
Implementing TWI is long; too long. It could and should be much more succinct.
Yet, the case studies are fascinating. There's little stories and links to important sources.
'Implementing TWI' narrative should be seen as a work in progress, from the US in WWII, to Toyota and Japan in the 1640s/1950s and now back to the West, it's a story that has a lot left to run.
Yet, the case studies are fascinating. There's little stories and links to important sources.
'Implementing TWI' narrative should be seen as a work in progress, from the US in WWII, to Toyota and Japan in the 1640s/1950s and now back to the West, it's a story that has a lot left to run.
August 5, 2015
First off, heed the author's warning, don't let this be your first book on TWI, learn the basics first. I made the mistake of reading this book first and a couple topics were beyond my understanding.
This book is very well written. There are a lot of case studies to support how training within industry should be implemented and what it looks like when it succeeds and when it fails.
I did have two issues/problems with the book. One is that I feel it is much too long. The case studies, albeit well documented, were much too wordy and at times the point the author was trying to make got lost.
The second problem was, the book could have been organized a little better. It seemed at times things "jumped around" especially with the case studies.
All in all a very worthwhile read and a book that I will go back to after I get the basics of training within industry down.
It has inspired me to continue my learning of TWI and maybe to become a master trainer.
This book is very well written. There are a lot of case studies to support how training within industry should be implemented and what it looks like when it succeeds and when it fails.
I did have two issues/problems with the book. One is that I feel it is much too long. The case studies, albeit well documented, were much too wordy and at times the point the author was trying to make got lost.
The second problem was, the book could have been organized a little better. It seemed at times things "jumped around" especially with the case studies.
All in all a very worthwhile read and a book that I will go back to after I get the basics of training within industry down.
It has inspired me to continue my learning of TWI and maybe to become a master trainer.
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