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Author Pamela Gordon
When it comes to believing that business can be profitable and environmentally sensitive, cynics abound on both sides. But in Lean and Green, Pamela Gordon proves that capitalism and environmentalism are not mutually exclusive-quite the contrary. She shows how ....
Release Date 2001/09 -
Author Neil Raden , James Taylor
“Automated decisions systems are probably already being used in your industry, and they will undoubtedly grow in importance. If your business needs to make quick, accurate decisions on an industrialized scale, you need to read this book.”Thomas H. Davenport, Profess....
Release Date 2007/06 -
Lessons from a Lean Consultant
Author Chris A. Ortiz
Making Lean Work: “In-the-Trenches” Help from a World-Class Expert Lean manufacturing can improve productivity and quality, shorten lead times, reduce costs, and improve competitiveness. However, succeeding with lean is not easy. Chris A. Ortiz, one of the country’s....
Release Date 2008/03 -
The Lean Forward Moment: Create Compelling Stories for Film, TV, and the Web
Author Norman Hollyn
In this groundbreaking book Norman Hollyn outlines his 'Lean Forward Moment Method' of storytelling that applies to all aspects of the film-making process and media production. Whether you are an editor, producer, director, cinematographer or visual effects pro, t....
Release Date 2008/12 -
The Art of Lean Software Development
Author Curt Hibbs , Mike Sullivan , Steve Jewett
This succinct book explains how you can apply the practices of Lean software development to dramatically increase productivity and quality. Based on techniques that revolutionized Japanese manufacturing, Lean principles are being applied successfully to product desi....
Release Date 2009/01 -
Business Agility: Sustainable Prosperity in a Relentlessly Competitive World
Author Michael H. Hugos
The relentless pursuit of industrial efficiency no longer yields the profits it once did because it requires a level of business predictability that no longer exists. Instead, the Internet and global video and telecom systems provide a massive and continuous flow of....
Release Date 2009/03 -
Author Sandra Edwards , Nancy E. Landrum
This book is a brief introduction to sustainability as it applies to business and offers an overview of how sustainability is applied throughout the organization. Chapters are organized by familiar departments or functions of the business and cover the applications ....
Release Date 2009/08 -
Leading Lean Software Development: Results Are Not the Point
Author Tom Poppendieck , Mary Poppendieck
Building on their breakthrough bestsellers Lean Software Development and Implementing Lean Software Development, Mary and Tom Poppendieck’s latest book shows software leaders and team members exactly how to drive high-value change throughout a software organization—....
Release Date 2009/10 -
Author Dantar P. OOSTERWAL
2017 Shingo Prize for Literature. Some things never change. Harley-Davidson is still the great, iconic American motorcycle. But like many storied companies, Harley has had to evolve to stay on top, even to stay in existence. From near-extinction in the early eightie....
Release Date 2010/01 -
U.S. Investment: The Difference Between Growth and Value Stocks
Author Tom Lydon
This Element is an excerpt from The ETF Trend Following Playbook: Profiting from Trends in Bull or Bear Markets with Exchange Traded Funds (ISBN: 9780137029013) by Tom Lydon. Available in print and digital formats.Growth or value? How to make the right stock choices....
Release Date 2010/02 -
The Remedy: Bringing Lean Thinking Out of the Factory to Transform the Entire Organization
Author Pascal Dennis
A powerful business fable that shows you how to spread Lean business practices to every function of your businessPascal Dennis is a Lean business learner and practitioner who has written four books on the subject of Lean business practices. In The Remedy, he shows h....
Release Date 2010/07 -
Manager Redefined: The Competitive Advantage in the Middle of Your Organization
Author Stephen D. Harding , Thomas O. Davenport
In this book the author explains that managers must build human capital and engender employee engagement by managing them almost not at all, by attending instead to the factors and circumstances that make them successful. In other words, managers must play their rol....
Release Date 2010/11 -
Author Stephen A. RUFFA
In Going Lean, author Stephen A. Ruffa introduced the groundbreaking principles of Lean Dynamics, revealing how leading companies go beyond chasing the most visible outcomes of lean to address the disconnects that cause operational waste to accumulate. Illustrated b....
Release Date 2010/12 -
Safety Performance in a Lean Environment
Author Paul F. English
As changing customer demands and shifting world markets continue to put a strain on businesses in all sectors, your business needs every advantage to stay competitive. Many people may think of Lean processes as suitable only for the manufacturing floor, but that cou....
Release Date 2011/11 -
Author Henrik Kniberg
You know the Agile and Lean development buzzwords, you've read the books. But when systems need a serious overhaul, you need to see how it works in real life, with real situations and people. Lean from the Trenches is all about actual practice. Every key point is ....
Release Date 2011/12 -
Creating a Sustainable Organization: Approaches for Enhancing Corporate Value Through Sustainability
Author Peter A. Soyka
Organizations that prioritize environmental, health, and safety (EHS) issues are well placed to attract better customers, better talent, and today's growing number of socially responsible investors. But, to gain these benefits, companies must choose the right susta....
Release Date 2012/01 -
Improving Business Performance With Lean
Author James Bradley
This textbook is a concise introduction to the essential concepts and tools used in the "Lean" method of improving business processes; it constitutes a sufficient "toolkit" to enable a reader to successfully improve business processes in their workplace. While Lean....
Release Date 2012/01 -
Author Ash Maurya
We live in an age of unparalleled opportunity for innovation. We’re building more products than ever before, but most of them fail—not because we can’t complete what we set out to build, but because we waste time, money, and effort building the wrong product.What we....
Release Date 2012/02 -
Author Natalie J. Sayer , Bruce Williams
Take charge and engage your enterprise in a Lean transformationHave you thought about using Lean in your business or organization, but are not really sure how to implement it? Or perhaps you're already using Lean, but you need to get up to speed. Lean For Dummies s....
Release Date 2012/04 -
Author Rebecca Duray , Howard Williams
Making IT Lean: Applying Lean Practices to the Work of IT presents Lean concepts and techniques for improving processes and eliminating waste in IT operations and IT Service Management, in a manner that is easy to understand. The authors provide a context for discus....
Release Date 2012/11 -
How Strong Is Your Firm’s Competitive Advantage?
Author Daniel Marburger
Perhaps the most confounding characteristic of the competitive marketplace is that everyone wants a piece of the action. If a firm successfully enters a new market, creates a new product, or designs new innovations for an existing product, it’s just a matter of time....
Release Date 2012/11 -
Author John R. Henry
Defined as the total process of converting a line or process from one product to another, changeover will not only help your organization improve quality and flexibility, but it will save thousands and sometimes even tens of thousands of dollars per hour.Achieving L....
Release Date 2012/12 -
Author Gregory R. Wood , Linda Volonino , Efraim Turban
Information Technology for Management by Turban, Volonino & Wood engages students with up-to-date coverage of the most important IT trends today. Over the years, this leading IT textbook had distinguished itself with an emphasis on illustrating the use of cutti....
Release Date 2013/01 -
Author Andy Brophy
Learn how to make your company more efficient, increase customer value with less work and make better use of your organisation’s resources by implementing a Lean management strategy.The Financial Times Guide to Lean is a guide to the tools that are used to implement....
Release Date 2013/02 -
Author Andrew W. Savitz
HR Professional's guide to creating a strategically sustainable organizationEmployees are central to creating sustainable organizations, yet they are left on the sidelines in most sustainability initiatives along with the HR professionals who should be helping to e....
Release Date 2013/02 -
Author Benjamin Yoskovitz , Alistair Croll
Whether you’re a startup founder trying to disrupt an industry or an entrepreneur trying to provoke change from within, your biggest challenge is creating a product people actually want. This book shows you how to validate your initial idea, find the right customers....
Release Date 2013/03 -
Author C.K. Prahalad , Stuart L. Hart
A brand new collection of cutting-edge guides to sustainable capitalismTranslate sustainability and “base of the pyramid” strategies into real profitsIt’s time for capitalism’s next reinvention. In the new Third Edition of his best-selling Capitalism at the Crossroa....
Release Date 2013/04 -
The End of Competitive Advantage: How to Keep Your Strategy Moving as Fast as Your Business
Author Alex Gourlay , Rita Gunther McGrath
Are you at risk of being trapped in an uncompetitive business?Chances are the strategies that worked well for you even a few years ago no longer deliver the results you need. Dramatic changes in business have unearthed a major gap between traditional approaches to s....
Release Date 2013/06 -
Competitive Intelligence For Dummies
Author Jim Underwood
Make competitive intelligence part of your business practice—and be on the cutting edgeCompetitive intelligence is the art of defining, gathering, analyzing, and distributing intelligence about products, customers, competitors, individuals, concepts, information, id....
Release Date 2013/07 -
The Lean Mindset: Ask the Right Questions
Author Tom Poppendieck , Mary Poppendieck
What company doesn’t want energized workers, delighted customers, genuine efficiency, and breakthrough innovation? The Lean Mindset shows how lean companies really work–and how a lean mindset is the key to creating stunning products and delivering amazing services.T....
Release Date 2013/09