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Lean Startup in Large Organizations
Author James A. Euchner
Large corporations must become far more agile in implementing new products and new business models. The pace of technology change, the blurring of industry boundaries, and the agility and resources of startups in almost every industry segment demand it.Many companies have begun to adopt the principl....
Release Date 2022/02 -
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 -
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 -
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 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 -
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 -
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 -
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 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 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 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 -
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 Ralph L. Kliem
Lean is a set of disciplines that can result in tremendous savings and profitability for companies. It can significantly reduce cycle times and increase customer satisfaction. Lean, however, must be applied efficiently and effectively to achieve optimum results. Th....
Release Date 2015/10 -
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 -
Lean Startups for Social Change
Author Michel Gelobter
For years, the lean startup has been revolutionizing both new and established businesses. In this eye-opening book, serial social entrepreneur Michel Gelobter shows how it can do the same for nonprofits.Traditionally, whether creating a new business or a new p....
Release Date 2015/11 -
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 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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 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 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 -
What's Your Competitive Advantage?
Author Paul Raspin , Cliff Bowman
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Release Date 2018/12 -
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 -
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 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