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Yes, You Can Do This! How Women Start Up, Scale Up, and Build The Life They Want
Author Claudia Reuter
How women can "lean in" to entrepreneurship to create the life they want! Claudia Reuter left a promising corporate career to raise her two young children but realized, when re-entering the workforce, that the gap in her resume looked like a gap in ambition—not a purposef....
Release Date 2020/02 -
What's Your Competitive Advantage?
Author Paul Raspin , Cliff Bowman
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Release Date 2018/12 -
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 -
Author Taiichi Ohno
In this classic text, Taiichi Ohno--inventor of the Toyota Production System and Lean manufacturing--shares the genius that sets him apart as one of the most disciplined and creative thinkers of our time. Combining his candid insights with a rigorous analysis....
Release Date 2019/12 -
The Toyota Way to Service Excellence: Lean Transformation in Service Organizations
Author Karyn Ross , Jeffrey Liker
The world’s bestselling Lean expert shows service-based organizations how to go Lean, gain value, and get results—The Toyota Way.A must-read for service professionals of every level,....
Release Date 2016/09 -
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 -
Author Michael Nir
Use this practical, step-by-step guide on lean agile strategy to harness technological disruption at your large business to successfully advance your business rather than suffer a loss of business. The lean agile enterprise concept is demystified and translated int....
Release Date 2018/04 -
The Myths and Truths of Lean Transformations
Author Raymond Kelly
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 effectively convey 'What’s in it for me?' to their business associa....
Release Date 2018/09 -
The Lean Turnaround Action Guide: How to Implement Lean, Create Value and Grow Your People
Author Art Byrne
This companion to The Lean Turnaround shows exactly how to use “lean leadership” to eliminate waste while increasing profitability and driving sustainabilityWhile many companies have attempted to become Lean, few have captured the full promise of this better way of....
Release Date 2016/10 -
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 -
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 -
Author Thomas A. Paider , Michael A. Orzen
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, but lack a process from which to act. Addressing this urgent need ....
Release Date 2017/11 -
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 -
Author Eric Ries , Patrick Vlaskovits , Brant Cooper
Leverage the framework of visionaries to innovate, disrupt, and ultimately succeed as an entrepreneurThe Lean Entrepreneur, Second Edition banishes the "Myth of the Visionary" and shows you how you can implement proven, actionable techniques to create products and ....
Release Date 2016/03 -
Author Jacob Stoller
As organizations strive to do more with less, many are turning to Lean methodology, which is based on the same techniques that propelled the legendary turnaround of Japan's industrial sector after World War II. Few leaders, however, understand that the real se....
Release Date 2015/03 -
Author John Earley
An essential guide to bringing lean to your business and your lifeThe Lean Book of Leanprovides a succinct overview of the concepts of Lean, explains them in everyday terms, and shows how the general principles can be applied in any business or personal situation. ....
Release Date 2016/06 -
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 -
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 -
The BASICS Lean™ Implementation Model
Author William Keen , Daniel Protzman , Charles W. Protzman III
In 2004 Charlie Protzman created The BASICS Lean Implementation Model, which covers the full spectrum of what is needed to be effective and successful at implementing a Lean System. The reader is taken through a step by step approach developed over the last 15 year....
Release Date 2018/10 -
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 -
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 Dr. Alan S. Gutterman
This book traces the foundations for sustainable entrepreneurship, beginning with sustainability, ecopreneurship, and social entrepreneurship. Sustainability has become a multidimensional concept that extends beyond environmental protection to economic development ....
Release Date 2018/08 -
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 -
Author David Shiers , Miles Keeping
An inside view of how one of the world's leading architecture and engineering practice does businessSustainable Built Environments: Principles and Practice offers detailed, environmentally sound design solutions to a wide range of building engineering challenges. ....
Release Date 2017/12 -
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 -
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 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 -
QuickValue: Discover Your Value and Empower Your Business in Three Easy Steps
Author Reed Phillips , Charles Slack
Gain the competitive edge by conducting a valuation of your company every year―quickly, accurately, and inexpensivelyBusiness leaders who know their company’s value at any given moment are more likely to seize the competitive edge―especially these days, when adding digital capabilities can dramatica....
Release Date 2021/11 -
Operationalizing Sustainability
Author Patrick Corsi , Pierre Massotte
This book focuses on the emergence of the “science of sustainability” and the key concepts in making sustainability operational in an organization. The authors discuss the methods, techniques and tools needed to manage the impact of sustainability and how these can....
Release Date 2015/10 -
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