Author: Ray Oakey ISBN: 041559393X / 9780415593939 Year: 2012 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
With the global economy in a precarious position, nurturing new entrepreneurial high-technology firms is likely to comprise a key component of any policy to encourage economic growth, both in develo...
Author: Ahmed S. Khan ISBN: 1439859531 / 9781439859537 Year: 2012 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
Advances in nanotechnology are transforming the ways of creating materials and products, leading society to the threshold of a second industrial revolution. However, future opportunities will depend...
Author: Gerhard Plenert, Tom Cluley ISBN: 1439867135 / 9781439867136 Year: 2012 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
Many organizations develop strategic plans that gather dust on bookshelves. Many other organizations employ Lean and Six Sigma methodologies to eliminate waste and reduce process variation only to f...
Author: Chitram Lutchman, Rohanie Maharaj, Waddah Ghanem ISBN: 1439862613 / 9781439862612 Year: 2012 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
With annual cost in excess of $150 billion from workplace related illnesses and injuries, any knowledge that can reduce this burden contributes to the overall welfare of the work force and business ...
Author: Ron C. McKinnon ISBN: 143987946X / 9781439879467 Year: 2012 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
Close calls, narrow escapes, or near hits. History has shown repeatedly that these "near-miss" incidents often precede loss producing events, but are largely ignored or go unreported because nothing...
Author: Carlos Cordon, Kim Sundtoft Hald, Ralf W. Seifert ISBN: 0415591767 / 9780415591768 Year: 2012 Availability: Out of Stock
The supply chain is at the heart of every successful business organization's decision-making process. This textbook explains how to create a winning supply chain management strategy by spotlighting ...
Author: Beverly Townsend ISBN: 1439882371 / 9781439882375 Year: 2012 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
Accessible to the Lean novice and shop floor employee, The Basics of Line Balancing and JIT Kitting explores line balancing and the pre-assembly of components into a finished product in a just-in-ti...
Author: Richard Morrow ISBN: 143989535X / 9781439895351 Year: 2012 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
Leading change in the right direction and sustaining that change is extremely difficult without managing the relevant measures, especially in today's healthcare environment. This book details how to...
Author: Wally Klatch ISBN: 0849328535 / 9780849328534 Year: 2012 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
Supply Chain for Liquids : Out of the Box Approaches to Liquid Logistics provides a thorough analysis of liquid logistics, a crucial but often overlooked business issue. It covers a broad range of t...
Author: Charles C. Poirier ISBN: 157444347X / 9781574443479 Year: 2012 Availability: 45-60 days
Around the world, virtually every company is engaged in some form of effort intended to improve the processing that takes place across an end-to-end supply chain system as they work towards moving t...
Author: David Frederick Ross ISBN: 1574443240 / 9781574443240 Year: 2012 Availability: 45-60 days
In the quest to remove supply channel costs, streamline channel communications, and link customers to the value-added resources found along the supply chain continuum, Supply Chain Management (SCM) ...
Author: Mike Elbert ISBN: 1439877793 / 9781439877791 Year: 2013 Availability: In Stock
A hands-on guide to adapting Lean principles and the Toyota Production System to high-mix/low-volume environments, Lean Production for the Small Company uses charts, pictures, and easy-to-understand...
Author: Herb Cohen ISBN: 8172240619 / 9788172240615 Year: 2007 Availability: Out of Stock
Herb Cohen believes the world is a giant negotiating table and, like it or not, you're a negotiator. Whether you're dealing with your spouse, boss, department store, bank manager, children, solicito...
Author: Maura Way, Samuel Carlson ISBN: 1439837430 / 9781439837436 Year: 2016 Availability: In Stock
Mistake-proofing is an improvement technology that uses a device or procedure, also called a poka-yoke, to prevent defects or errors during a process. Mistake-proofing in healthcare can improve the ...
Author: Nancy M. Settle-Murphy ISBN: 1466557869 / 9781466557864 Year: 2013 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
A virtual team is a group of individuals who work across time, space and organizational boundaries with links strengthened by webs of communication technology. At best, virtual teams allow companies...
Author: Preston W. Blevins ISBN: 1439849560 / 9781439849569 Year: 2013 Availability: Out of Stock
The global sourcing of ingredients has created complex supply chains, significant management challenges, and additional regulatory compliance requirements. This has placed tremendous pressure on foo...
Author: Gail Levitt ISBN: 0367380900 / 9780367380908 Year: 2019 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
Providing the tools to create, propose, execute, and evaluate team development plans, this book offers insights and access to critical resources that enable readers to transform a vision, mission, g...
Author: Dennis F.X. Mathaisel, Joel M. Manary, Ned H. Criscimagna ISBN: 1439853517 / 9781439853511 Year: 2012 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
This book outlines a series of principles to help engineers design products and services to meet customer and societal needs with minimal impact on resources and the ecosystem. The third volume in a...
Author: Shamima Ahmed ISBN: 1032146125 / 9781032146126 Year: 2021 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
Underlining the relationship between the public and nonprofit sectors, Effective Nonprofit Management: Context, Concepts, and Competencies, 2nd Edition comprehensively explores of the practical art ...
Author: Janet Bautista Smith ISBN: 0873898400 / 9780873898409 Year: 2012 Availability: Out of Stock
This publication introduces a portable audit model to facilitate a simple, flexible, and effective audit of single or multiple quality system standards and achieve both compliance and initiation of ...
Author: Howard Williams, Rebecca Duray ISBN: 1439876029 / 9781439876022 Year: 2013 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
Focusing on the application of Lean practices to IT, this book presents tools and techniques for IT operations and IT service management. The author provides a context for discussing several areas o...
Author: Michael R. Overly ISBN: 0367767252 / 9780367767259 Year: 2023 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks.
Even leading organizations with sophisticated IT infrastructures and teams of lawyers can find themselves unprepared to deal with the range of issues that can arise in IT contracting. Written by two...
Author: Steven Bell ISBN: 1466504498 / 9781466504493 Year: 2012 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
This book unifies the various IT sub-communities and disciplines, providing a collaborative value stream management approach that harnesses the principles and practices of Lean to deliver consistent...
Author: Bert Brijs ISBN: 1439858349 / 9781439858349 Year: 2012 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks.
Aligning business intelligence (BI) infrastructure with strategy processes not only improves your organization's ability to respond to change, but also adds significant value to your BI infrastructu...
Author: Andrew Thu Pham, David Khoi Pham ISBN: 1466557486 / 9781466557482 Year: 2012 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
This book explains how to successfully deploy Agile and Kanban on a large scale in order to increase IT delivery capabilities. It factors in change, communication, a sense of urgency, clear and meas...
