Author: H. James Harrington ISBN: 1466572574 / 9781466572577 Year: 2013 Availability: In Stock
Focusing on important opportunities that will provide value for the organization, this book provides direction and motivation for the improvement process. It provides a method for continuous review ...
Author: Marc Roberts ISBN: 1439861331 / 9781439861332 Year: 2012 Availability: In Stock
A must-read for all managers, leaders, and change agents, Performance Hubs: Engaging Teams in Focused Continuous Improvement supplies a proven system for engagement that allows teams to use their ow...
Author: James R. Langabeer II ISBN: 1138296406 / 9781138296404 Year: 2018 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
Healthcare Organizations offer significant opportunities for change and improvement in their overall performance. Hospitals and clinics are generally large, complex, and inefficient, and need seriou...
Author: Bryan P. Bergeron ISBN: 1138104531 / 9781138104532 Year: 2018 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
Performance management, often referred to as process management, is a strategy that can be used to achieve an optimum mix of quality, safety, patient satisfaction and solvency. The basis of performa...
Author: Brian H. Maskell ISBN: 036748014X / 9780367480141 Year: 2020 Availability: In Stock
In Performance Measurement for World Class Manufacturing author Brian H Maskell states that new performance measures are needed for world class manufacturers. This, he says, is because traditional ...
Author: Valentina Gokenbach ISBN: 1032339551 / 9781032339559 Year: 2022 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
Today’s healthcare leaders are facing challenges unlike ever before. New healthcare laws, reimbursement models and regulations unnerve even the most senior of leaders resulting in increasingly...
Author: Gilmore Crosby ISBN: 0367535726 / 9780367535728 Year: 2020 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
"Gil Crosby has accomplished what most of us in the world of applied behavioral science, in general, and OD and T-Group training, in particular, have not—making the theoretical father of our w...
Author: Paul Lillrank, Vijai Kumar Singh ISBN: 1138032263 / 9781138032262 Year: 2017 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
The planning and design of healthcare facilities has evolved over the previous decades from "function follows design" to "design follows function." Facilities stressed the functions of healthcare pr...
Author: Richard Chamberlain ISBN: 1138310182 / 9781138310186 Year: 2017 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
When hospitals began implementing their electronic medical records/electronic health records systems (EMR/HER) the pharmaceutical companies that were conducting clinical trials at those hospitals wa...
Author: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun ISBN: 1138626937 / 9781138626935 Year: 2017 Availability: In Stock
If your goal is 100% zero defects, here is the book for you — a completely illustrated guide to poka-yoke (mistake-proofing) for supervisors and shop-floor workers. Many poka-yoke ideas come f...
Author: Douglas B. Relyea ISBN: 1466566604 / 9781466566606 Year: 2013 Availability: In Stock
Addressing the beliefs and attitudes that can be detrimental to your organization’s competitiveness, Popular Manufacturing Myths: Eliminating Widely Held Beliefs That Reduce Competitiveness of...
Author: George Mayzell ISBN: 1032098236 / 9781032098234 Year: 2021 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
As healthcare moves from volume to value, payment models and delivery systems will need to change their focus from the individual patient to a population orientation. This will move our economic mod...
Author: Boyd Cohen ISBN: 1138713392 / 9781138713390 Year: 2017 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
Post-Capitalist Entrepreneurship: Startups for the 99% details the implications of the post-capitalist society on entrepreneurship around the globe, and it challenges many of our underlying assumpti...
Author: Brian H. Maskell, Bruce Baggaley, Larry Grasso ISBN: 036745758X / 9780367457587 Year: 2020 Availability: In Stock
The methods and concepts presented in the bestselling first edition revolutionized the approach to the management and control of Lean companies. Enhanced with extensive end-of-chapter exercises and ...
Author: Bas Lohman, Kjeld H. Aij ISBN: 1498748023 / 9781498748025 Year: 2016 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
The application of Lean tools appears relatively simple, but the change in culture required to turn Lean into a lasting success requires strong leadership. Previously published books about Lean in h...
Author: James Leflar ISBN: 1498767419 / 9781498767415 Year: 2016 Availability: In Stock
Agilent Technologies, formerly Hewlett-Packard's Test and Measurement Division, operates an integrated circuit fabrication plant in Fort Collins, Colorado. Guided by Masaji Taijiri, the author of 7 ...
Author: James S. Bologna, Reza Ziaee ISBN: 1466567708 / 9781466567702 Year: 2015 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
Improvements made in a stable environment will last and have a significant influence on the productivity and quality of an entire healthcare organization. This book provides a detailed presentation ...
Author: Guy M. Merritt, Preston G. Smith ISBN: 1563272652 / 9781563272653 Year: 2002 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
Proactive Risk Management's unique approach provides :
• A model of risk that is scalable to any size project or program and easily deployable as the risk management approach built into any ...
Author: Melisa Buie ISBN: 1138197785 / 9781138197787 Year: 2017 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
This book brings a fresh new approach to practical problem solving in engineering, covering the critical concepts and ideas that engineers must understand to solve engineering problems. Problem Solv...
Author: Drew Willis ISBN: 1498747159 / 9781498747158 Year: 2016 Availability: In Stock
Process Implementation Through 5S: Laying the Foundation for Lean explains how to implement standardized work and visual controls through Plan–Do–Check–Adjust (PDCA). The author us...
Author: Paul Harsin, Ray W. Wilson ISBN: 0527763446 / 9780527763442 Year: 1998 Availability: In Stock
The benefits include: cost reduction; increased productivity; improved safety; higher morale; and the ability to meet the changing expectations of your customers.
Step-by-step, the authors guide ...
Author: Bob Sproull ISBN: 156327244X / 9781563272448 Year: 2001 Availability: In Stock
To be a successful manufacturing operation, employees must eliminate equipment and production related losses. However, most shopfloor workers don't have the necessary skills to perform the problem-s...
Author: David Ben-Tovim ISBN: 1138196096 / 9781138196094 Year: 2017 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
Process Redesign for Health Care Using Lean Thinking is a response to a simple, but hard to answer, question and is the result of the experiences of a working doctor who was also the chief safety an...
Author: Takashi Ichida ISBN: 1563270412 / 9781563270413 Year: 1996 Availability: In Stock
The goal of the world class company is to produce a product or service that offers customers the highest quality at the lowest cost and in the shortest time possible. Product Design Review describes...
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...