Author: , Jussi Kantola ISBN: 1439852944 / 9781439852941 Year: 2012 Availability: 15-30 days
Edited by Jussi Kantola, the founding faculty member of the world’s first university Knowledge Service Engineering Department at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, and Waldema...
Author: S. Bhupatthi Rav, Syeda Azeem Unnisa ISBN: 192689524X / 9781926895246 Year: 2012 Availability: Out of Stock
This book compiles many different treatment options and best practices for the treatment and recycling of municipal solid waste from all over the globe, factoring in cost-effectiveness, sanitation, ...
Author: Claude H. Maley ISBN: 1466502886 / 9781466502888 Year: 2012 Availability: 15-30 days
In order to succeed in today’s increasingly competitive environment, corporations, companies, governments, and nonprofit organizations must be conversant with modern project management techniq...
Author: Frank Voehl, H. James Harrington ISBN: 1439878773 / 9781439878774 Year: 2012 Availability: 15-30 days
For visionary leaders, an Organizational Master Plan and associated technologies have become essential components of strategic decision making. Written for leaders, planners, consultants, and change...
Author: Ray Oakey ISBN: 0415593921 / 9780415593922 Year: 2012 Availability: 15-30 days
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: Out of Stock
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: 15-30 days
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: 15-30 days
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: 15-30 days
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: 15-30 days
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: 15-30 days
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: 15-30 days
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: 15-30 days
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: 15-30 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: 15-30 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: In 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: 15-30 days
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: 15-30 days
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: 1439855439 / 9781439855430 Year: 2013 Availability: 15-30 days
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: 15-30 days
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: 1439815488 / 9781439815489 Year: 2012 Availability: 15-30 days
In an environment of increased interdependency and collaborations among non-profits, for-profits, and governmental organizations, researchers and practitioners have begun to identify the need for a ...
Author: Janet Bautista Smith ISBN: 0873898400 / 9780873898409 Year: 2012 Availability: 15-30 days
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: 15-30 days
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...
