Daniel T. Jones is an English author and researcher.^[1] He won the Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence in the Research and Professional Publication category multiple times^[2][3] for his books The Machine that Changed the World, Lean Thinking: Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Organization and Seeing the Whole: Mapping the Extended Value Stream.

He is also the founder of the Lean Enterprise Academy.

Education

He has a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Sussex.^[4] In 2015 he received an honorary Doctorate of Science from the University of Buckingham in the United Kingdom.^[5]

Works

Daniel Jones along with James P. Womack researched the automotive industry. Their research work with Daniel Roos, a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology on the automotive industry, found a three-to-one productivity difference between Japanese and American factories. Their research was published as a book, The Machine That Changed the World in 1991.^[1]

Bibliography

Books

• A. Graves; Daniel T. Jones (1986). Comparison of international research and development in the automobile industry. International Motor Vehicle Program.
• Roos, Daniel, Ph.D.; Womack, James P., Ph.D.; Jones, Daniel T.: The Machine That Changed the World : The Story of Lean Production, Harper Perennial (November 1991), ISBN 0060974176, ISBN 978-0060974176
• James P. Womack; Daniel T. Jones (2002). Seeing the Whole: Mapping the Extended Value Stream, Volume 4. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9780966784350.
• James P. Womack; Daniel T. Jones (2010). Lean Thinking: Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation. ISBN 9780743249270.
• James P. Womack; Daniel T. Jones (2015). Lean Solutions: How Companies and Customers Can Create Value and Wealth Together. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 9780743277792.
• Michael Balle; Daniel T. Jones (2016). Priolo, Roberto (ed.). Lead with Lean: On Lean Leadership and Practice. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. ISBN 9781540480842.

See also

• Lean manufacturing

References

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