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Six Sigma For Dummies teaches the reader all the foundation principles, methods, and tools of this magnificent problem-solving system.
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Steve Hoeft tells the stories he learned from his Toyota Production System (TPS) master teachers. "Stories From My Sensei" provides insight into how and how-not-to implement TPS principles.
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The Lean Manager: A Novel of Lean Transformation reveals how individuals can go beyond the short-term gains from tools, and realize a deeper, sustainable path of improvement. Full of human moments that capture the excitement and drama of lean implementation, as well as clear explanations of how too…
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Offers a critique of the roots of management education and argues that institutions of higher learning must teach managers how to integrate the discipline of learning into their very being.
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This book stresses the importance of focusing on "strengths," whether a job seeker, employee, or manager. Explains why focusing on weaknesses, and thus trying to repair flaws, can be self-defeating for individuals and organizations. Includes a questionnaire for discovering one's top-five inborn tal…
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Discusses the key principles of leadership that promote effective thinking and positive change, offering a simple five-step program to help managers bring out the best in their colleagues and create high-performance teams.
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Collaboration is often viewed as a one-time or project-oriented activity. An increasing challenge is to help organizations incorporate collaborative values and practices in their everyday ways of working. In Creating a Culture of Collaboration, an international group of practitioners and researcher…
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With the increase in the number of organizational leadership development programs, there is a pressing need for evaluation to answer important questions, improve practice, and inform decisions. The Handbook is a comprehensive resource filled with examples, tools, and the most innovative models and …
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The book Lean Six Sigma in Sickness and in Health seeks to explain, using a healthcare illustration, Beyond Lean Six Sigma techniques in a thorough but entertaining and easy-to-understand way. The easy-to-digest format is perfect for executive managers scanning for the right management initiative, …
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The Lexicon provides definitions, examples, and lots of illustrations to clarify the special language lean thinkers use and sometimes confuse. The Lexicon contains more than 145 definitions and 55 graphics, plus four appendices with additional terms, illustrations, and references.
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Measuring Quality Improvement in Healthcare covers practical applications of the tools and techniques of statistical process control (SPC), including control charts, in healthcare settings. The authors' straightforward discussions of data collection, variation, and process improvement set the conte…
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This straightforward guide explains what Lean is, how it works, and how to implement the strategy at your organization.
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James Womack and Daniel Jones deconstruct this broken producer-consumer model and show businesses how to repair it. Lean Solutions will inspire managers to take the first steps toward perfecting their company's process of giving consumers what they really want.
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This classic book uses words and diagrams, rather than formulas and equations, to help readers understand what statistics is, and how to think statistically.
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In the revised and updated edition of Lean Thinking: Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation, authors James P. Womack and Daniel T. Jones provide a thoughtful expansion upon their value-based business system based on the Toyota model. Along the way they update their action plan in light …
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The Toyota Way is the first book for a general audience that explains the management principles and business philosophy behind Toyota's worldwide reputation for quality and reliability.
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A business book disguised as a novel, a love story about the manufacturing process, and an exhilarating adventure in human potential, The Goal is changing how America does business.
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Important text offers lucid explanation of how to regulate variables and maintain control over statistics in order to achieve quality control over manufactured products, crops and data. Topics include statistical control, establishing limits of variability, measurements of physical properties and c…
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This book discusses ways to transform key personnel into change agents and engage all staff in a patient-focused culture dedicated to eliminating waste and improving all aspects of quality and care.
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The manufacturing industry has employed the Toyota Production System to reduce waste, improve quality, reduce defects and increase worker productivity. In 2001, Virginia Mason Medical Center, an integrated healthcare delivery system in Seattle, Washington set out to achieve its vision to become The…
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