Author: Michael A. Orzen, Thomas A. Paider ISBN: 1498730388 / 9781498730389 Year: 2015 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
How many IT books have you read that are long on theory and short on practical application? They are interesting, but not very impactful. They provide a framework from which to think and understand,...
Author: Robert B. Camp ISBN: 1498700756 / 9781498700757 Year: 2015 Availability: In Stock
Without Lean leaders, there can be no Lean.
If an organization wants to be Lean, its leaders must lead using Lean principles. Put another way, until the top of your organization fully embraces Le...
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: Productivity Press Development Team ISBN: 1563273160 / 9781563273162 Year: 2005 Availability: In Stock
The Lean Office : Collected Practices and Cases is a compilation of articles previously published in our monthly newsletter, Lean Manufacturing Advisor. These articles discuss lean implementations i...
Author: Patricia A. Gabow, Philip L. Goodman ISBN: 1482246384 / 9781482246384 Year: 2015 Availability: In Stock
In this book, Dr. Gabow, former CEO of Denver Health of 20 years, teams up with Philip Goodman, a 34-year veteran of Denver Health who directed the Lean System group, to share their Lean journey. Th...
Author: Chuck Mignosa, Frank Voehl, H. James Harrington, Rich Charron ISBN: 0367480107 / 9780367480103 Year: 2020 Availability: In Stock
Although Lean and Six Sigma appear to be quite different, when used together they have shown to deliver unprecedented improvements to quality and profitability. The Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Handboo...
Author: Paul Lillrank ISBN: 1138626244 / 9781138626249 Year: 2018 Availability: Out of Stock
Most of the current literature on healthcare operations management is focused on importing principles and methods from manufacturing. The evidence of success is scattered and nowhere near what has b...
Author: Maria Todd ISBN: 1563273691 / 9781563273698 Year: 2009 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
Managed care contracting is a process that frustrates even the best administrators. However, to ignore this complexity is to do so at your own expense. You don’t necessarily need to bear the c...
Author: Kelly Graves ISBN: 1138216208 / 9781138216204 Year: 2017 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
New, and experienced managers alike, typically repeat behaviors they observed or were subjected to when they were employees, which perpetuates unhealthy and unproductive management methods.
The M...
Author: Katherine Radeka ISBN: 1439877025 / 9781439877029 Year: 2012 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
What do Ford Motor Company, Steelcase, Scania, Goodyear, Novo Nordisk, and Philips Electronics have in common? They all need to get their best ideas to market as fast as possible. They need to achie...
Author: Sholom Glouberman ISBN: 1032095318 / 9781032095318 Year: 2021 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
Healthcare is very much dependent on the model of the patient that is assumed by healthcare providers. The current model derives from a chemical/mechanical view of the patient body. Simply put: we a...
Author: Phillip Marksberry ISBN: 1466556749 / 9781466556744 Availability: In Stock
Numerous books have been written about Toyota's approach to workplace improvement; however, most describe Toyota's practices as case studies or stories. Designed to aid in the implementation of Lean...
Author: Joyce I. Warnacut ISBN: 1498737137 / 9781498737135 Year: 2016 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
Although there are numerous books on alternative accounting methods, such as Lean accounting, none focus on the impact of time and how accounting practices can be modified to acknowledge the power o...
Author: Raymond Kelly ISBN: 1138296384 / 9781138296381 Year: 2018 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
This book is a crucial resource for Lean practitioners (experienced or not) who are seeking: insight on how to gain more from their Lean efforts, how to overcome resistance to change (that is, to ef...
Author: Paul Kendall ISBN: 1138498696 / 9781138498693 Year: 2018 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
There is a lot of political will at the moment to encourage more new startup businesses, with grant funding subsidies, assistance raising finance, exemptions from statutory reporting and tax incenti...
Author: Kyle Toppazzini ISBN: 1498735983 / 9781498735988 Year: 2024 Availability: 15-30 days
Lean Sigma initiatives often plateau and fail because the philosophy on which they should be built to ensure sustainability is missing. Business conducted in China is different than in the West. "Ch...
Author: D.H. Stamatis ISBN: 1439814066 / 9781439814062 Year: 2010 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
A valuable tool for establishing and maintaining system reliability, overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) has proven to be very effective in reducing unscheduled downtime for companies around the w...
Author: Frank Voehl, H. James Harrington ISBN: 1439877327 / 9781439877326 Year: 2012 Availability: In Stock
In the same way that a well-defined approach is needed to develop an effective strategic plan, an equally well-designed approach is needed to support the alignment of your organization's structure, ...
Author: Frank Voehl, H. James Harrington ISBN: 1439878773 / 9781439878774 Year: 2012 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
For visionary leaders, an Organizational Master Plan and associated technologies have become essential components of strategic decision making. Written for leaders, planners, consultants, and change...
Author: Frank Voehl, H. James Harrington ISBN: 1032537701 / 9781032537702 Year: 2024 Availability: 15-30 days
The objective of the ISO 56002 standard is to provide a framework on how to build an innovation ecosystem that can be sustained over time. Similar to the quality management system that ISO establish...
Author: Jerry L. Harbour ISBN: 1466571349 / 9781466571341 Year: 2013 Availability: In Stock
Mapping and measuring techniques are particularly useful when determining how something‘flows’ through time and space. Yet systems and their associated processes occur over widely varyin...
Author: Naida Grunden ISBN: 1563273675 / 9781563273674 Year: 2007 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
America’s healthcare system needs to change. Not only does our country spend 16 percent of its gross domestic product on healthcare, but despite spending more than other industrialized countri...
Author: Mark Graham Brown ISBN: 1482205270 / 9781482205275 Year: 2013 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
Updated yearly to match changing requirements, this guide is designed to help you understand the criteria for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. The Baldrige criteria are being used by tho...
Author: Robert W. Pryor, Steve Hoeft ISBN: 1498707408 / 9781498707404 Year: 2016 Availability: In Stock
Many companies conduct Lean training and projects, but few have tapped the wealth of ideas in the minds of their staff like Baylor Scott & White Health. This book documents the path Steve Hoeft and ...