McKinsey's 7-S Framework - Management Thought Development Approach

7-S framework explains management in terms of 1. Strategy 2. Structure 3. Systems 4. Style 5. Staff 6. Shared values and 7. Skills

Total Quality Management Approach - Management Thought Development Approach

Focuses on providing products or services that are fit for use and thus satisfy customers. Develop concepts and procedures for improving quality and also argued that costs will come down in production and service system by emphasizing quality in process and operation.

Deming, Juran and Crosby are the leading advocates of this approach.

Management Process or Operational Approach - Management Thought Development Approach

This approach distinguishes between managerial and non-managerial knowledge. Explains management around the functions of management. These functions are specified differently by different authors. Koontz specified them as planning, organizing, staffing, leading and controlling.

Henri Fayol is the father of this approach

Scientific Management - Management Thought Development Approach

Scientific management approach is based on experiments either laboratory type or field type and developing principles based on the data collected from experiments to organize work either of equipment or men and man-machine combinations.

F.W. Taylor did experiments on both machines as well as manual work and developed laws and principles. He was given recognition as father of scientific management.

Lean Management - Management Approach

Lean management is a new development in management thought. It is based on the management system used in Toyota Motors Corporation, Japan. It was developed as an approach in management theory by MIT research team that included Jim Womack, and Dan Jones.

Lean Management - Presentation at Tata Steel - Lean Management for Productivity Enhancement
Lean Management for Productivity Enhancement on Feburary, 2014
Dr. K.V.S.S. Narayana Rao, Professor , NITIE, Mumbai

Lean Product Development - Engineering - Bibliography

Lean Product Development Point of View to Current Challenges of Engineering Change Management in Traditional Manufacturing Industries
Katrine Mahlamäki1 , Mikael Ström2 , Taneli Eisto1 , Venlakaisa Hölttä1
1Helsinki University of Technology,P.O.Box 9210, 02015 TKK, Finland
http://www.ami-communities.eu/pub/bscw.cgi/d494273/37_MahlamakiICE09_final.pdf


Lean Engineering - Best Practice in the Automotive Industry
Lean engineering practice at Tenneco
Working Paper n°6, Projet Lean Entreprise
Dr. Patrick Garcia, Tenneco Inc., Germany
Dr. John Drogosz, Optiprise-University of Michigan
http://www.lean.enst.fr/wiki/pub/Lean/LesPublications/LeanEngineeringWorkingPaper.pdf

New Product Development

Minimum Criteria in the New Product Development of Capital Goods from Concept to the Product Development Phase
http://webhotel2.tut.fi/cmc/pdf/MinimumCriteria.pdf