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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 -
An Introduction to Lean Work Design
Author Matthias Thürer , Lawrence D. Fredendall
This book provides a short, concise overview of lean work design, which sees lean systems as the result of a systematic implementation of appropriate work processes. It discusses lean tools, but views tools only as a means of achieving a desirable work design and do....
Release Date 2016/03 -
Author Kevin J. Duggan
While more and more companies are aggressively pursuing Operational Excellence by employing Six Sigma, Lean, and other continuous improvement methods, the concept has yet to be defined in a way that can be easily taught and applied, especially in industries other t....
Release Date 2016/02 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Developing Sustainable Supply Chains to Drive Value, Volume II
Author Steven A. Melnyk , Robert P. Sroufe
Sustainability is changing and changing rapidly. It is becoming more widespread as companies and customers uncover its power and at¬tractiveness and sustainability also receiving more attention in the press. Support for sustainability lies within new tools, fr....
Release Date 2017/08 -
Eliminating Waste in Business: Run Lean, Boost Profitability
Author Dave J. Orr , Linda M. Orr
Redundant employees. Storerooms full of extra stock "in case we need it." Marketing money sprayed in all directions in the vain hope it will create customers. Duplicate IT systems. HR policies that fatten the corporate waistline rather than keeping it trim. Budgetin....
Release Date 2014/04 -
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 -
Fundamentals of Assurance for Lean Projects
Author Christopher Wright
An introduction to Lean thinking Lean is a mindset rather than a methodology; it is a way of thinking based on practices, strategies, tools and methods that can be applied to maximise value and minimise waste while ensuring that processes achieve corporate go....
Release Date 2017/03 -
Global Kata: Success Through the Lean Business System Reference Model
Author Terence T. Burton
The book that reinvents Lean for a new generation, a new global culture, and a new benchmark of successGlobal Kata: Success Through the Lean Business System Reference Model™ sets a new benchmark for the evolution of Lean and strategic improvement. The book and the ....
Release Date 2015/09 -
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 Daniel Protzman , Fred Whiton , Charles W. Protzman
Everyone has heard the phrase about doing twice the work in half the time, but instead of focusing only on time, this book focuses on driving increased output with consistently less input. Implementing Lean: Twice the Output with Half the Input! teaches readers not ....
Release Date 2018/09 -
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 -
Improving Business Performance With Lean, Second Edition
Author James R. Bradley
This book is a concise introduction to the essential concepts and tools used in the Lean method for improving business processes. It constitutes a sufficient toolkit to enable practitioners to quickly start using Lean to improve business processes in thei....
Release Date 2015/04 -
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 Gene Fliedner
Lean is a comprehensive, integral system consisting of four interdependent elements: leadership, culture, team, and practices and tools. This book examines these elements following a systematic, hierarchical orientation and explains their relevance for guiding....
Release Date 2015/10 -
Author Jean Dahl
Companies from startups to corporate giants face massive amounts of disruption today. Now more than ever, organizations need nimble and responsive leaders who know how to exploit the opportunities that change brings. In this insightful book, Jean Dahl, a senior exe....
Release Date 2019/10 -
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 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 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 Rob Ptacek , Jaideep Motwani
Over the past decade, Lean methods and tools have helped manufacturing organizations improve their productivity levels significantly by focusing on data, systematic elimination of waste, and improvement of flow. Today many nonmanufacturing organizations are applying....
Release Date 2014/06 -
Author N Smart
With decreasing profit margins, increasing cost pressures, growing regulatory compliance concerns, mounting pressure from generic drugs and increasing anxiety about the future of healthcare reimbursement, pharmaceutical manufacturers are now forced to re-examine and....
Release Date 2013/10 -
Author Cindy Alvarez
How do you develop products that people will actually use and buy? This practical guide shows you how to validate product and company ideas through customer development research—before you waste months and millions on a product or service that no one needs or wants....
Release Date 2017/09 -
Lean Development and Innovation
Author Luciano Attolico
Using Toyota's principles for product and process development, this book focuses the implementation of the Lean system during the past 10 years in dozens of corporations across various industries. The book highlights all steps on the journey from common trouble are....
Release Date 2018/10 -
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 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 -
Author Mark Graban
Organizations around the world are using Lean to redesign care and improve processes in a way that achieves and sustains meaningful results for patients, staff, physicians, and health systems. Lean Hospitals, Third Edition explains how to use the Lean methodology an....
Release Date 2016/06 -
Author Susanne Pejstrup , Vibeke Fladkjaer Nielsen
Responding to a recent surge in interest, this is the first book to comprehensively address how Lean thinking and tools can be implemented in agriculture. This handbook breaks down barriers, clearly showing how techniques originally developed for use in factories wo....
Release Date 2018/10