Lean Solutions, James P. Womack and Daniel T. Jones. Free Press, 2005.
These are the authors of The Machine that Changed the World. (The “machine” was lean production.) In this book, they expand on the idea of “lean consumption.” Their idea is that if consumers and businesses can better share information about current and future wants and needs, companies can build a supply chain that will have a lot less waste, and be simpler for everybody. This book is the background for their March, 2005 article in Harvard Business Review, expanding it with a number of examples in different industries. (Reviewed Sept., 2005)