Author: Daniel Bloom ISBN: 1498758509 / 9781498758505 Year: 2018 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
The Excellent Education System: Using Six Sigma to Transform Schools helps you discover and understand the technique of evidence-based learning and operations through which the modern school satisfi...
Author: Gerhard Plenert ISBN: 1138626163 / 9781138626164 Year: 2017 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
A facility-wide improvement initiative is expensive in terms of both time and money. Perhaps the most disappointing thing about them is that they often end up as temporary measures that may produce ...
Author: Javier Villalba-Diez ISBN: 1138069272 / 9781138069275 Year: 2017 Availability: Out of Stock
The most complex organization known in the universe is inside of our heads: our brain. Because organizations are formed by human beings, The Lean Brain Theory aims to mimic human brain structure and...
Author: Yacob Khojasteh ISBN: 1138032212 / 9781138032217 Year: 2017 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
Inventory control is an essential task in production management. An effective inventory control can significantly reduce the holding cost and hence, total production cost. Selecting and implementing...
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: Javier Giron Blanco, Torsten Dederichs ISBN: 1138732370 / 9781138732377 Year: 2017 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
The book is about applying Lean manufacturing principles to industrial maintenance in order to improve the efficiency and be able to do more with the same (or less) resources. By industrial maintena...
Author: Janis Allen, Michael McCarthy ISBN: 1138068926 / 9781138068926 Year: 2018 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
All employees want themselves and their colleagues to be better engaged at work, but most just can’t get past the talking stage to actually developing an effective plan. This book is a step-by...
Author: Phillip Ledbetter ISBN: 1138578711 / 9781138578715 Year: 2018 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
Many current companies are in a similar position to Toyota prior to development of the Toyota Production System regarding efficiency and culture. Many are attempting to implement a Lean system, but ...
Author: Heather Woodward-Hagg, Kathryn Trauth Taylor, Robin R. Hemphill ISBN: 1498768903 / 9781498768900 Year: 2018 Availability: Out of Stock
This book provides insight into the initial deployment of a Lean Management System across VA, the nation's largest healthcare system. The book presents the origins of VA's Lean Enterprise Transforma...
Author: Barry L. Cross ISBN: 1138713430 / 9781138713437 Year: 2017 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
The parameters of competition in business today are changing -- big does not necessarily beat small anymore; fast is beating slow. Agility, speed, and flexibility are the key elements of a successfu...
Author: Paul D. Fisher ISBN: 113862649X / 9781138626492 Year: 2018 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
Today, one of the greatest concerns for all Americans - leaders and followers alike – is how their prosperity seems to depend on a shrinking foundation of technology-only growth. And the onset...
Author: H. James Harrington, William S. Ruggles ISBN: 1466572558 / 9781466572553 Year: 2018 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
Project Management for Performance Improvement Teams (or, PM4PITs, for short) provides practical guidance based on innovative concepts for project teams -- especially Performance Improvement Teams (...
Author: Robert Derald Miller ISBN: 0815387040 / 9780815387046 Year: 2018 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
For more than 50 years, organizations of all types have struggled to achieve lasting benefits from the many tools and programs associated with various continuous-improvement initiatives. In fact, th...
Author: Richard E. Mallory ISBN: 113848184X / 9781138481848 Year: 2018 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
The concepts of quality management have been progressively interpreted and stylized by various practitioners over time, particularly through specific successful applications of its use. Its current ...
Author: Richard E. Mallory ISBN: 1138482390 / 9781138482395 Year: 2018 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
Quality Standards for Highly Effective Government, Second Edition establishes a "new normal" in government that will ultimately reinvent the practice of democratic government. The principal catalyst...
Author: Rajan Suri ISBN: 1138210641 / 9781138210646 Year: 2018 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
POLCA (Paired-cell Overlapping Loops of Cards with Authorization) is a card-based visual control system that manages the flow of jobs through the shop floor: at each operation, it controls which job...
Author: Charles W. Protzman, Daniel Protzman, Fred Whiton ISBN: 1482252848 / 9781482252842 Year: 2018 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
Corresponding to chapters in The Lean Practitioner's Field Book, this study guide offers a complete review of the concept of the Lean Practitioner. It offers a wide range of exercises to help reader...
Author: Charles W. Protzman III, Daniel Protzman, William Keen ISBN: 0815387946 / 9780815387947 Year: 2018 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
The Lean Practitioner Tools outlines a true learning path for anyone seeking to understand essential Lean principles and tools. It includes a plethora of examples and stories drawn from the authors ...
Author: Eric Ries ISBN: 0670921602 / 9780670921607 Year: 2011 Availability: Out of Stock
‘The Lean Start up- How Constant Innovation Creates Radically Successful Businesses’ is a book that explains how to work on your innovative concepts as businessman through moments of anx...
Author: Akhilesh N. Singh, Avinash Singh ISBN: 1643242350 / 9781643242354 Year: 2018 Availability: In Stock
Information Technology is one of the fastest evolving and widely spreading disciplines impacting our personal and professional lives across business, and social domains. Customers are looking for ha...
Author: Timothy Schipper ISBN: 1138344532 / 9781138344532 Year: 2019 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
The Highly Effective Office covers the transformation journey required to change the culture in the workplace from processes that suffer from functional separation and "silo-ed" departments to effic...
Author: Karyn Ross ISBN: 1138480630 / 9781138480636 Year: 2019 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
How to Coach for Creativity and Service Excellence: A Lean Coaching Workbook is a self-contained workbook, in which the reader completes twenty-one days of practical exercises and activities focused...
Author: Betty Ziskovsky, Joe Ziskovsky ISBN: 113833023X / 9781138330238 Year: 2019 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
This book is a fictionalized account of how a licensed school teacher developed, implemented, and refined the application of Lean principles and applied them to her classroom instructional practice ...
Author: Ross Kenneth Kennedy ISBN: 1138589284 / 9781138589285 Year: 2019 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
Understanding, Measuring, and Improving Daily Management explains the critical parts of a continuous improvement strategy to achieve Operational Excellence and where reactive improvement through eff...
Author: H. James Harrington ISBN: 1466582456 / 9781466582453 Year: 2018 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
People with ideas are dreamers. People who get things done are doers. One doer is worth eight dreamers. There are three kinds of people who make up an innovator. There are inventors (people who have...
