Author: Setsuo Mito, Taiichi Ohno ISBN: 0915299208 / 9780915299201 Year: 1988 Availability: In Stock
Just-In-Time for Today and Tommorrow
Taiichi Ohno created the Just-In-Time system at Toyota, but his mind never stands still. In this book, in dialogue with top Japanese business journalist Setsu...
Author: Keisuke Arai, Kenichi Sekine ISBN: 1563273411 / 9781563273414 Year: 2012 Availability: In Stock
Changeovers in 3 minutes or less! That is the result of the process described in this book. Picking up where Dr. Shingo's Single Minute Exchange of Die left off, it streamlines the process even furt...
Author: JIPM ISBN: 0367715228 / 9780367715229 Year: 2021 Availability: In Stock
The philosophy of kaizen, which simply means continuous improvement, is the starting place for all lean production improvements. Kaizen events are opportunities to make focused changes in the workpl...
Author: Japan Human Relations Association ISBN: 1563271869 / 9781563271861 Year: 1997 Availability: In Stock
Kaizen teian -- the Japanese-style proposal system for continuous improvement -- is the most direct and effective method for channeling employees' creative energies and hands-on insight. This book i...
Author: Japan Human Relations Association ISBN: 1563271885 / 9781563271885 Year: 1997 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
More than a guide to establishing a proposal system, this volume presents methods for teaching know-how. It gives each reader the principles for thinking creatively about improving his or her own wo...
Author: Thomas L. Jackson ISBN: 1439841527 / 9781439841525 Year: 2013 Availability: In Stock
As part of the Lean Tools for Healthcare series, this user-friendly book is designed to improve understanding of Kaizen. It describes what a Kaizen event is and explains all the phases necessary to ...
Author: Joseph Niederstadt ISBN: 1482205297 / 9781482205299 Year: 2014 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
A part of the Toyota production system, Kamishibai boards are a visual control for performing audits within a manufacturing process. The Kamishibai boards allow you to identify normal versus abnorma...
Author: Japan Management Association ISBN: 0915299488 / 9780915299485 Availability: In Stock
Toyota's world-renowned success proves that just-in-time (JIT) makes other manufacturing practices obsolete. This simple but powerful book is based on the seminars given by Taiichi Ohno and other se...
Author: JIPM ISBN: 1563272695 / 9781563272691 Year: 2022 Availability: In Stock
Kanban is the name given to the inventory control card used in a pull system. The primary benefit of kanban is to reduce overproduction -- the most critical of the seven deadly wastes. A kanban syst...
Author: Stephen Cimorelli ISBN: 143989549X / 9781439895498 Year: 2013 Availability: In Stock
Following in the footsteps of its popular predecessor, the second edition of this workbook explains how to apply kanban replenishment systems to improve material flow. Kanban for the Supply Chain: F...
Author: Mark Graham Brown ISBN: 0814403271 / 9780814403273 Year: 2006 Availability: In Stock
Keeping Score: Using the Right Metrics to Drive World-Class Performance ensures that you look at the right measurements. Following a Baldrige approach, Mark Graham Brown shows you how to evaluate yo...
Author: John Varney ISBN: 0367566044 / 9780367566043 Year: 2021 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
Based on the author’s 30 years experience of management development and a background in design and psychology, this book takes a fresh look at leadership as a systemic shared phenomenon. It is...
Author: Bill Templeman ISBN: 1482219956 / 9781482219951 Year: 2014 Availability: In Stock
Training for frontline managers and supervisors is being ignored as a business improvement tactic at the worst possible time. As management jobs become increasingly complex, we continue to be inunda...
Author: Gilmore Crosby ISBN: 1138297429 / 9781138297425 Year: 2017 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
Leadership is poorly understood because human systems are poorly understood. Like the "flat earth" theory of old, modern work culture is limited by a paradigm in which problems are understood as "cl...
Author: Kate M. Fenner, Mark W. Reifsteck, Peter Fenner ISBN: 1032302992 / 9781032302997 Year: 2022 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
Humans make mistakes. Many of us lose career ascendency or risk destroying our institutions by doubling down or ignoring outcomes of our own poor decisions.
Good leaders learn and teach from thei...
Author: Shantha Mohan ISBN: 103221256X / 9781032212562 Year: 2022 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
Leadership has gone through many changes in the last couple of decades. We have realized that outstanding leadership is not about being authoritarian and exercising control. It is not only about the...
Author: Diana Jones ISBN: 0367765187 / 9780367765187 Year: 2022 Availability: 45-60 days
There’s an epidemic of leadership failure—whether something as small as a meeting, or as large as implementing enterprise wide change. Leaders know that sinking feeling when a gap emerge...
Author: Norton Paley ISBN: 1498764142 / 9781498764148 Year: 2017 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
This book helps leaders to think/act like a strategist in the fast-moving age of big data, algorithms, and analytics. It provides competitive advantage along new pathways: First, leading a successfu...
Author: David Veech ISBN: 1466558008 / 9781466558007 Year: 2017 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
This book focuses on how organizations of all types can create a leader development system that defines critical leader behaviors, gives simple techniques for building and improving the skills that ...
Author: Karin Stumpf ISBN: 1498726577 / 9781498726573 Year: 2015 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
Most books dealing with change management focus on how companies reach their corporate goals, instead of on what individual leaders must do. Filling this need, Leading Business Change: A Practical G...
Author: Fernando Gonzalez Aleu, Jose Arturo Garza-Reyes ISBN: 0367271672 / 9780367271671 Year: 2020 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
This book is a reference for continuous improvement project (CIP) leaders/facilitators in manufacturing and service organizations, students (undergraduate and graduate), academics responsible for ma...
Author: Lisa J. Koss ISBN: 0367534835 / 9780367534837 Year: 2020 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
People do their best work when they are motivated. This may sound obvious, but while people managers instinctively agree with the centrality of motivation at work and its impact on employee engageme...
Author: Susan T. Snedaker ISBN: 1032097345 / 9781032097343 Year: 2021 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
Healthcare IT is a complex and rapidly evolving field. Success in this arena requires the ability to create a vision, set a strategy, foster collaboration, develop a plan and execute flawlessly ever...
Author: Philip Holt ISBN: 1032170050 / 9781032170053 Year: 2022 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
In Leading Lean by Living Lean, Philip Holt details and explains what is probably the most important part of becoming a Lean Leader -- living and practicing what you preach. To do this you must beli...
