Author: Nancy Hyer, Urban Wemmerlov ISBN: 1563272288 / 9781563272288 Year: 2001 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
Organizations streamline operations, shorten lead times, increase quality, and lower costs. Cellular manufacturing is a powerful concept that is simple to understand; however, its ultimate success d...
Author: Alan Belasen ISBN: 103204201X / 9781032042015 Year: 2022 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
The COVID-19 Pandemic has been an ultimate challenge for leadership resiliency. Resilient leaders are thoughtful and deliberate. They balance logic and emotion, ego and humility. They lead through c...
Author: Amanda Oates, Joseph Rafferty, Sidney Dekker ISBN: 0367754614 / 9780367754617 Year: 2022 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
A restorative just culture has become a core aspiration for many organizations in healthcare and elsewhere. Whereas ‘just culture’ is the topic of some residual conceptual debate (e.g. r...
Author: Thomas G. Zidel ISBN: 1498771297 / 9781498771290 Year: 2016 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
This book deals with a hospital's struggle to secure and maintain financial stability. In the story, the leadership team of a fictional hospital adopts the tools and principles associated with the T...
Author: Jamie Campbell, Phillip L. Ealy, William J. Rothwell ISBN: 1032027282 / 9781032027289 Year: 2022 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
Research has shown that having a diverse organization only improves and enhances businesses. Forbes and Time report that diversity is an $8 Billion a year investment. However, poorly implementing di...
Author: Suzette Woodward ISBN: 1032179201 / 9781032179209 Year: 2021 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
In the last 15 years we've seen a multitude of improvement programs and projects to improve the safety of patient care in healthcare. However, the full potential of these efforts and especially thos...
Author: Cagri Haksoz ISBN: 1466504471 / 9781466504479 Year: 2013 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
This unique avant-garde book brings the risk intelligent supply chain (RISC) concept to life for the first time. It answers the question of how to become a risk intelligent supply chain. It proposes...
Author: Matthew A. Barsalou ISBN: 148225879X / 9781482258790 Year: 2015 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
Although there are many books on root cause analysis (RCA), most concentrate on team actions such as brainstorming and using quality tools to discuss the failure under investigation. These may be ne...
Author: Mark J. Anderson, Patrick J. Whitcomb ISBN: 1138196282 / 9781138196285 Year: 2016 Availability: In Stock
RSM Simplified keeps formulas to a minimum and makes liberal use of figures, charts, graphs and checklists. It offers many relevant examples, with amusing sidebars and do-it-yourself exercises that ...
Author: Mark J. Anderson, Patrick J. Whitcomb ISBN: 1498745989 / 9781498745987 Year: 2017 Availability: In Stock
Anderson and Whitcomb pick up where they left off in DOE Simplified with RSM Simplified -- a practical tool for design of experiments that anyone with a minimum of technical training can understand ...
Author: Steven Bell ISBN: 1466504498 / 9781466504493 Year: 2012 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
This book unifies the various IT sub-communities and disciplines, providing a collaborative value stream management approach that harnesses the principles and practices of Lean to deliver consistent...
Author: Maria Mikela Chatzimichailidou, Nektarios Karanikas ISBN: 036755593X / 9780367555931 Year: 2022 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
Public safety, as well as the safety of products and services, is of paramount importance and interest to individuals, organisations and society. Safety successes are achieved every second, but we t...
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: David W. Conley, Ellen R. Domb, Kalevi Rantanen ISBN: 0367479362 / 9780367479367 Year: 2020 Availability: In Stock
The revised and updated third edition of Simplified TRIZ: New Problem Solving Applications for Technical and Business Professionals, 3rd Edition continues to demystify TRIZ (systematic innovation), ...
Author: Charles T. Carroll ISBN: 1138198323 / 9781138198326 Year: 2017 Availability: In Stock
The Six Sigma Define-Measure-Analyze-Improve-Control (DMAIC) philosophy and procedures are widely accepted as valuable tools for achieving the most economical and rigorous possible understanding and...
Author: D.H. Statmatis ISBN: 156327292X / 9781563272929 Year: 2004 Availability: In Stock
Although much has been written touting Six Sigma and its benefits, many are still confused about what exactly Six Sigma is and why it is extremely beneficial. Six Sigma Fundamentals cuts through the...
Author: Walter J. Michalski ISBN: 1563272954 / 9781563272950 Year: 2003 Availability: Out of Stock
Six Sigma Tool Navigator is the only lean resource that provides a complete compendium of tools for teams engaged in Six Sigma improvement activities. In addition, it offers actual tools, definition...
Author: Chandana Hewege, Jishnu Bhattacharyya, M.S. Balaji, Manoj Kumar Dash, Weng Marc Lim ISBN: 0367553635 / 9780367553630 Year: 2021 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
"... an important intervention in the conversation around social and ecological sustainability that draws on both micromarketing and macromarketing scholarship to help the reader understand the chal...
Author: Davida M. Amsden, Howard E. Butler, Robert T. Amsden ISBN: 0527763403 / 9780527763404 Year: 1998 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks.
It's still a hands-on manual with practice problems in each module. Written in clear language, it simplifies the essentials for monitoring, analyzing, and improving quality. No mathematical backgrou...
Author: David Naylor ISBN: 1032298456 / 9781032298450 Year: 2022 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
We know we should speak up and question what is being taken as normal in our work cultures. To notice and call out bad behaviour and resist being silenced. This book is a guide to what it takes to d...
Author: Alin Posteuca ISBN: 0367627302 / 9780367627300 Year: 2023 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
Profitable production planning is and will remain an eternal challenge to ensuring the prosperity and dignity of companies in a global market. Even though there are different approaches to achieving...
Author: Thomas L. Jackson ISBN: 1439837414 / 9781439837412 Year: 2011 Availability: In Stock
Proven to increase efficiencies in the manufacturing sector, Standard Work has become a key element in reducing process waste, ensuring patient safety, and improving healthcare services. Part of the...
Author: JIPM ISBN: 036771521X / 9780367715212 Year: 2022 Availability: In Stock
Standard work is an agreed upon set of work procedures that effectively combines people, materials, and machines to maintain quality, efficiency, safety, and predictability. Work is described precis...
Author: Joseph Niederstadt ISBN: 1439825505 / 9781439825501 Year: 2010 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
While it is a given that most Lean companies adopt methods to standardize cyclical activities, they often fail to apply the same rigor to noncyclical work, believing that it cannot be measured. Stan...