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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 -
Author Mangalam Nandakumar
A guide to product management exploring the best practices: identifying the impact-driven product, planning for success, setting up and measuring time-bound metrics, and developing a lean product roadmap.About This BookIdentifying Impact-Driven ProductsInvesting in....
Release Date 2018/05 -
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 -
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 -
Learn Popular Retail Strategies (Collection)
Author Dick Blatt , Rick DeHerder , Richard Hammond
The world's #1 guide to retail success, complete with crucial, up-to-date insights--including new case studies, ideas, strategies, and tactics from today's best retailers, like TopShop, IKEA, and Best Buy. Smart Retailincorporates several valuable chapters, includ....
Release Date 2013/08 -
Learning Agility: Unlock the Lessons of Experience
Author George Hallenbeck
Experience is vital for a leader's success, but merely having an experience (such as a challenging new job, a stretch assignment, or an unexpected hardship) isn't enough. The best leaders know not just how to seek out developmental experiences, but how to extract....
Release Date 2016/05 -
Leaving ADDIE for SAM Field Guide
Author Richard Sites , Angel Green
Make your foray into successive approximations successful and as easy as possible.In the 2012 bestseller, Leaving ADDIE for SAM, learning professionals were introduced to the Successive Approximation Model (SAM) and the Savvy Start—the key to a successful project ki....
Release Date 2014/05 -
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 -
Loyalty 3.0: How to Revolutionize Customer and Employee Engagement with Big Data and Gamification
Author Rajat Paharia
The new secret to driving LOYALTY THAT PAYS!Once revolutionary, loyalty programs designed todifferentiate products quickly became commoditized. And yet, billions of dollars are still spent every year on programs that are doomed to fail. These programs, it turns out,....
Release Date 2013/06 -
Author Joe Calloway
Magnetic: The Art of Attracting Business is a look at how consistently successful businesses are able to attract a steady and ever-increasing flow of customers. This innovative text examines a range of simple, powerful strategies that businesses of any size or type....
Release Date 2015/11 -
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 -
Making Natural Beauty Products
Author Sally Trew
This highly visual hands-on guide teaches readers how to make skincare, makeup, and many more personal-care products using natural ingredients. Step-by-step color photos guide readers through base recipes, followed by more than 200 color and blend variations. Readers with....
Release Date 2013/10 -
Author Johanna Rothman
Your project can't fail. That's a lot of pressure on you, and yet you don't want to buy into any one specific process, methodology, or lifecycle.Your project is different. It doesn't fit into those neat descriptions.Manage It! will show you how to beg, borrow, a....
Release Date 2007/06 -
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 J. David Johnson
The metaphor of dosage offers us a rich organizing principle for managers. It focuses our efforts on fundamental, pragmatic communication issues such as amount, frequency, delivery system, sequencing, interaction with other agents, and contraindications. It suggests....
Release Date 2012/12 -
Author Jeanette S. Martin , Reginald L. Bell
The first book of its kind to offer a unique functions approach to managerial communication, Managerial Communication explores what the communication managers actually do in business across the planning, organizing, leading, and controlling functions. Focusing on th....
Release Date 2014/09 -
Managerial Communication and the Brain
Author Dirk Remley
This book takes a neuroscientific approach to explaining elements of effective managerial and leadership communication in a concise way. These include communicating with various audiences and in a variety of situations managers and leaders face regularly. The book ....
Release Date 2017/08