Time to find some Lean references for my thesis.

As far as I understand, the term lean was coined by Womack in this book:

Womack, J.P., Jones, D.T., & Roos, D. (1990). The machine that changed the world. New York: MacMillan Press.

Another commonly referenced book is:

Liker, J. (2004). The Toyota Way. New York: McGraw-Hill.

I plan to use these books to define what is Lean. Both are very commonly referenced in any book / article / research, regarding Lean. I have them as Kindle ebooks.

Then I need to have some references to Lean in service (and preferably on IT R&D) industry. Even though Ikonen’s doctoral thesis is not completely aligned with my research subject, as I’m not focusing on actual software development, but software development organizations, I still think it’s very good source of information:

Ikonen, M. (2011). Lean thinking in software development: Impacts of kanban on projects. Computer science doctoral dissertation. University of Helsinki.

I also managed to get a book from amazon.com which in some level deals with KM and lean, which is currently my only reference to dealing this intersection (Thanks Jan for the tip):

Dahlke, F. (2008). Eliminating waste in software projects: Effective knowledge management by using web based collaboration technology: The enterprise 2.0 concept applied to lean software development. Hamburg: Diplomica verlag.

I also found few interesting articles called “Lean Knowledge Work”, “The Toyota Way in Services: The Case of Lean Product Development” and “Lean consumption” through Google scholar, just by searching for lean and “knowledge”.

Liker, J. K., Morgan, J. M. (2006). The Toyota Way in Services: The Case of Lean Product Development. Academy of Management Perspectives, 20(2), 5-20.

Staats, B. R., Upton, D. M. (2011). Lean Knowledge work. Harvard Business Review.

Womack, James P. and Jones, Daniel T. (2005). Lean Consumption. Harvard Business Review.

I think I can get things started with these.