Author: Jeffrey Liker ISBN: 0367480204 / 9780367480202 Year: 2020 Availability: In Stock
Pure and simple, lean is reducing the time from customer order to manufacturing by eliminating non-value-added waste in the production stream. The ideal of a lean system is one-piece flow, because a...
Author: Hugh R. Alley ISBN: 0367862190 / 9780367862190 Year: 2020 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
Becoming a Supervisor tells the story of Trevor who works as one of the production team in a small company that makes toy boats. He is thrust into the role of supervisor unexpectedly when his genera...
Author: Robert C. Camp ISBN: 1563273527 / 9781563273520 Year: 2013 Availability: In Stock
Benchmarking is the master key to becoming the best. This groundbreaking reference is for middle managers in industry, not-for-profit organizations and government agencies, as well as quality improv...
Author: Jeffery P. Daigrepont ISBN: 0367374366 / 9780367374365 Year: 2020 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
Today, it is not uncommon for practices and hospitals to be on their second or third EHR and/or contemplating a transition from the traditional on-premise model to a cloud-based system. As a follow-...
Author: Roger G. Lewandowski ISBN: 1482215829 / 9781482215823 Year: 2014 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
Stating that US-based industry is only operating at approximately 65 percent effectiveness in implementing Lean production, this book reasons that overseas factories can't compete with domestic fact...
Author: Mark Graham Brown ISBN: 1563273462 / 9781563273469 Year: 2007 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
The vast majority of companies use some form of balanced scorecard (performance measures), yet recent research suggests that most scorecards are based on singular, unsophisticated measurements, prov...
Author: Kevin J. Duggan ISBN: 1498712487 / 9781498712484 Year: 2016 Availability: In Stock
While more and more companies are aggressively pursuing Operational Excellence by employing Six Sigma, Lean, and other continuous improvement methods, the concept has yet to be defined in a way that...
Author: William A. Levinson ISBN: 1563273705 / 9781563273704 Year: 2007 Availability: In Stock
The basic principle of the Theory of Constraints (TOC) is the impossibility of running a balanced factory at 100 percent capacity. Variation in processing and material transfer times is the root cau...
Author: Stefano Tempesta, Stephen Ashurst ISBN: 0367677350 / 9780367677350 Year: 2021 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
Blockchain is the popular name given to the exciting, evolving world of distributed ledger technology (DLT). Blockchains offer equitable and secure access to data, as well as transparency and immuta...
Author: Christian Cater ISBN: 1032371765 / 9781032371764 Year: 2024 Availability: Out of Stock
Agile is being adopted within every type of organization across the world. It is no longer used specifically for software development. This book shows how anyone can adopt the systems of an agile or...
Author: Michael Abrams, Rita E. Numerof ISBN: 0367737361 / 9780367737368 Year: 2021 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
The healthcare sector is on the cusp of sweeping disruption. The hallmarks of the old system—pricing that’s disconnected from outcomes and incentives for treating sickness rather than ma...
Author: Gitte Jakobsen, John Vellema, Patrick Graupp ISBN: 148221363X / 9781482213638 Year: 2014 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
Building a Global Learning Organization: Using TWI to Succeed with Strategic Workforce Expansion in the LEGO® Group describes how a multinational company developed a global structure for learning ba...
Author: Debashis Sarkar ISBN: 149877959X / 9781498779593 Year: 2017 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
This book provides an assorted set of reflections/lessons from the "trenches" of Lean service and brings to fore leadership challenges, new tools, and the known-unknowns (insights that very few know...
Author: Keith Kosel, Steve Miff ISBN: 0367800063 / 9780367800062 Year: 2020 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
As a community, aligning efforts across a community to support the safety and well-being of vulnerable and underserved individuals is extraordinarily difficult. These individuals suffer disproportio...
Author: Ryuji Fukuda ISBN: 1563271443 / 9781563271441 Year: 1997 Availability: In Stock
Undoubtedly, the most urgent task for companies today is to take a hard look at the future. To remain competitive, management must nurture a strong capability for self development and a strong corpo...
Author: Jose Arturo Garza-Reyes, Luis Rocha-Lona, Vikas Kumar ISBN: 1466564997 / 9781466564992 Year: 2013 Availability: Out of Stock
This book discusses the most well-known excellence models, methods, and tools to foster quality management, including how to develop abilities in order to identify core operational and support proce...
Author: Edward Uechi ISBN: 1032038349 / 9781032038346 Year: 2022 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
The world is undergoing a transformation in what Klaus Schwab, founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, calls the "fourth industrial revolution." Technological development made po...
Author: Suresh Patel ISBN: 1498751245 / 9781498751247 Year: 2016 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
An organization seeking to sustain and continually improve its competitive performance over many years must have a strategy – a Business Excellence Strategy.This book guides and illustrates th...
Author: Amizan Omar, Anurag Singh, Deepmala Singh, SB Goyal ISBN: 1032027290 / 9781032027296 Year: 2022 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks.
Business Intelligence (BI) is a solution to modern business problems. This book discusses the relationship between Business Intelligence (BI) and Human Resource Management (HRM). In addition, it cov...
Author: Kiran Gurumurthy ISBN: 1138370665 / 9781138370661 Year: 2019 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
This book is a powerful tool for business leaders who have responsibility for the success of the profit and loss (P&L) statement of a business. It provides a roadmap to help business leaders develop...
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...
Author: Matthew Reynolds ISBN: 1032548487 / 9781032548487 Year: 2024 Availability: Out of Stock
Many of us have had experiences of using IT systems at work that just don’t work right or cause more problems than they solve. Even if we’ve been lucky at work and always had the opportu...
Author: Chris Harris, Rick Harris ISBN: 1466586338 / 9781466586338 Year: 2014 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
Although there are many organizations that have implemented Lean production systems and become more profitable as a result, there can be a gap between what those organizations currently do and how t...
Author: Aviv Ben-Yosef ISBN: 1032415169 / 9781032415161 Year: 2023 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks.
Every business today has some technology as part of its strategy. Inevitably, it is becoming harder for many CEOs to effectively lead their R&D efforts at the same time that their investment in tech...
Author: , Mark Stevenson, Matthias Thurer ISBN: 1498746942 / 9781498746946 Year: 2016 Availability: In Stock
Many shops have simplified their production control by using card-based systems such as kanban and Constant Work-in-Process (ConWIP). Although these systems provide a simple and highly effective vis...
