Author: Jaime Villafuerte, Jon Miller, Mike Wroblewski ISBN: 9385965484 / 9789385965487 Year: 2018 Availability: In Stock
Get started with kaizen, implement it in your organization using kaizen events, and ensure the improvements are realized and sustained.
Co-written by leaders at the Kaizen Institute, Creating a K...
Author: Karen Martin, Mike Osterling ISBN: 9352601831 / 9789352601837 Year: 2020 Availability: In Stock
Winner of The Shingo Research and Professional Publication Award! Align your leadership team to deliver the highest possible value to your customers
Too many organizations today suffer from sil...
Author: Tim Purdie, Tristan Boutros ISBN: 1265821100 / 9781265821104 Year: 2023 Availability: 45-60 days
The Definitive Guide to Process Improvement & Operational Excellence. This complete body of knowledge for process improvement professionals provides an easy-to-understand foundation for process matu...
Author: Daniel Bloom ISBN: 113835919X / 9781138359192 Year: 2021 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
Although world-class firms like GE and Motorola have relied on Six Sigma to build their performance cultures, these processes are all too often left out of human resources (HR) functions. This lack ...
Author: Anthony Sgroi ISBN: 1482203901 / 9781482203905 Year: 2014 Availability: In Stock
Explaining how to use Lean principles to drive innovation and strategic portfolio planning, The Innovative Lean Enterprise: Using the Principles of Lean to Create and Deliver Innovation to Customer ...
Author: Nicholas S. Katko ISBN: 0367351420 / 9780367351427 Year: 2019 Availability: In Stock
Written specifically for CFOs, this book demonstrates why and how they are the critical leaders for companies adopting a Lean Business Strategy. CFOs must lead their companies in the development of ...
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: Joseph E. Swartz, Mark Graban ISBN: 1466586419 / 9781466586413 Year: 2014 Availability: 15-30 days
Hospitals and health systems are facing many challenges, including shrinking reimbursements and the need to improve patient safety and quality. A growing number of healthcare organizations are turni...
Author: Hiroyuki Hirano ISBN: 149877038X / 9781498770385 Year: 2016 Availability: In Stock
The one manual that every corporate executive should read again and again… re-released for the first time in an affordable paperback version
Known as the JIT bible in Japan, JIT Implementa...
Author: Rajan Suri ISBN: 036748028X / 9780367480288 Year: 2020 Availability: In Stock
In the decade since the publication of Rajan Suri’s landmark book, Quick Response Manufacturing, the innovative principles of QRM have been proven with impressive results at many companies, bi...
Author: Robert Baird ISBN: 1482206005 / 9781482206005 Year: 2014 Availability: In Stock
If you examine the characteristics of successful organizations, you will find that speed is a common denominator. Once there is a focus on speed, industry-leading improvements follow, momentum is cr...
Author: Frank Voehl, H. James Harrington, Hal Wiggin, Rich Charron ISBN: 1466564350 / 9781466564350 Year: 2014 Availability: In Stock
This book presents a first of its kind approach that describes critical components for sustainable Lean management. The handbook shows how managers at all levels of the organization can integrate Le...
Author: Josef Packowski ISBN: 1482205335 / 9781482205336 Year: 2014 Availability: 15-30 days
Delivering excellent service to all customers is the key imperative for many sustainable businesses. So why do so many supply chains struggle to fulfill customer requirements at competitive costs? T...
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: Joao Neiva de Figueiredo, Mauro F. Guillen ISBN: 1466590483 / 9781466590489 Year: 2014 Availability: In Stock
This book shares examples of sustainable electricity generation in different countries, It provides an in-depth analysis of the key factors affecting success, or lack thereof, to draw valuable lesso...
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: David M. Anderson ISBN: 1482204924 / 9781482204926 Year: 2014 Availability: In Stock
This book explains how to develop manufactured products right, the first time around. It describes how to reduce total cost, ramp to volume production on schedule, and increase production for demand...
Author: Willis H. Thomas ISBN: 1466554568 / 9781466554566 Year: 2014 Availability: In Stock
Professional certification has become a very popular topic and a significant number of individuals are making it a priority. Some people are torn on whether or not to obtain a certification to bolst...
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: Alain Patchong ISBN: 1466563583 / 9781466563582 Year: 2014 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
This book, the fourth in a series dedicated to Standardized Work, focuses on process improvement. It begins by explaining that standardization and improvement are the two faces of the same coin. The...
Author: Charles Kenney ISBN: 1563273756 / 9781563273759 Year: 2010 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
For decades, the manufacturing industry has employed the Toyota Production System — the most powerful production method in the world — to reduce waste, improve quality, reduce defects an...
Author: David G. Carmichael ISBN: 146657061X / 9781466570610 Year: 2013 Availability: Out of Stock
Whatever their discipline, engineers are routinely called upon to develop solutions to all kinds of problems. To do so effectively, they need a systematic and disciplined approach that considers a r...
Author: Brett Trusko, H. James Harrington ISBN: 146657075X / 9781466570757 Year: 2014 Availability: In Stock
Value proposition, an old concept, is taking on new significance in today’s innovation-driven environment. Business focus has shifted from developing many creative ideas to developing only tho...
Author: Christopher F. Voehl, Frank Voehl, H. James Harrington ISBN: 1466580518 / 9781466580510 Year: 2015 Availability: In Stock
Business cases can be useful in relating various value propositions to the success of the organization. In developing business cases, value propositions are aligned with the organization's prioritiz...