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Healthcare Delivery in the U.S.A. An Introduction

Healthcare Delivery in the U.S.A. An Introduction

With the same clarity that made the previous editions bestsellers Healthcare Delivery in the U. S. A. : An Introduction Third Edition provides readers with the understanding required to navigate the healthcare provider field. In the intervening 8 years since the 2nd Edition was published there have been significant developments in the healthcare delivery systems including COVID-19 global health issues and the evolution of the Affordable Care Act and other financing mechanisms. Brilliantly simple yet comprehensive this updated edition includes updated case studies and describes the new organizational structures being driven by current market conditions. Focusing on healthcare management the book addresses the range of topics critical to understanding the U. S. healthcare system including the quality of care movement delivering care during a pandemic recent finance reform new technologies cyber security and the recent increase in merger and acquisition activity. Dr. Schulte walks readers through the history of the development of U. S. healthcare delivery. She describes the various venues of care delivery as well as the different elements of the financing system. Offering a glimpse into the global market and medical tourism the text includes coverage of legal and regulatory issues workforce and the drivers and barriers that are shaping healthcare delivery around the world. Painting a clear and up-to-date picture this quick-and-easy read provides you with the understanding of the terminology structures roles relationships and nuances needed to interact effectively and efficiently with anyone in the healthcare provider field. | Healthcare Delivery in the U. S. A. An Introduction

GBP 39.99
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An Introduction to Nursing Informatics Evolution and Innovation 2nd Edition Evolution and Innovation

An Introduction to Nursing Informatics Evolution and Innovation 2nd Edition Evolution and Innovation

Nursing informatics (NI) is the specialty that integrates nursing science with information management and analytical sciences to identify define manage and communicate data information knowledge and wisdom in nursing practice. Nursing Informatics supports nurses consumers patients the interprofessional healthcare team and other stakeholders in a wide variety of roles and settings to achieve desired outcomes. This is accomplished through the use of information structures information processes and information technology. An Introduction to Nursing Informatics Evolution and Innovation 2nd Edition is the ideal gateway to all the professional possibilities this continuously evolving discipline has to offer. Describing the evolution of nursing informatics from its origins to current practice in today’s complex diverse healthcare environment this book offers the next generation of nurse informaticists an understanding of the discipline best practices and its scope of influence in healthcare. The book also explores Nursing Informatics as it is evolving into the future including technology creation and implementation and the development of influential policies and best practices. Special features include descriptions of the ‘a day in the life’ from informatics nurses in multiple roles and fields of influence including academia research clinical settings the executive suite consulting and government as well as an Appendix featuring case profiles. This new edition updates the content to better align with the current state of nursing informatics and expand on additional roles. New to this edition is a chapter providing tips and advice for those trying to find their first nursing informatics job or are changing their careers. Another new chapter covers healthcare analytics and how it fits into the nursing informatics role. An Introduction to Nursing Informatics Evolution and Innovation 2nd Edition is the ideal resource for nursing students and as a reference guide and pint of inspiration for nurses currently in the field. | An Introduction to Nursing Informatics Evolution and Innovation 2nd Edition Evolution and Innovation

GBP 48.99
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Business Administration An Introduction for Managers and Business Professionals

Business Administration An Introduction for Managers and Business Professionals

The progress of several businesses was severely challenged through the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic with several businesses collapsing globally. Apart from the pandemic the business posture and dynamics of yesteryear has significantly changed as the way business is conducted today especially in this era of Industry 4. 0 and the proliferation of technology-assisted processes have created a new environment for doing business. Comparatively yesterday’s businesses seemed to have been in the dark keeping itself within limited geographical locations contacts and markets. However business today with the technological boom has created a global village with the advent of the World Wide Web and social media which is redefining the way business is conducted especially in product and service development marketing and publicity customer attraction and retention scouting and recruitment and so on. This book responds to contemporary calls for new ways of managing businesses with practitioner-oriented discourses on topical issues like business environments and how modern businesses can thrive in the same. It discusses in some detail the general composition of business environments specific factors that influence the operations and decisions of a business within its environment the level of control businesses have over the factors that operate within the business environment and the need for businesses to be proactive and to strategise in order to take advantage of the opportunities the business environment presents as while minimising the negative effects some factors also present. The book provides practical applications while not losing sight of the theoretical underpinnings. Case studies have been provided to elucidate the theories learnt and provide practical application to real-life situations. Written in easy non-technical language the book also has practice questions at the end making it an easy instructional manual for business owners worldwide. It is also a brilliant text for introductory students of business administration and management and covers important business areas like types of business ownership and how to start a business. | Business Administration An Introduction for Managers and Business Professionals

GBP 52.99
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Building a Global Learning Organization Using TWI to Succeed with Strategic Workforce Expansion in the LEGO Group

Building a Global Learning Organization Using TWI to Succeed with Strategic Workforce Expansion in the LEGO Group

Building a Global Learning Organization: Using TWI to Succeed with Strategic Workforce Expansion in the LEGO Group describes how a multinational company developed a global structure for learning based on the TWI (Training Within Industry) program to create and sustain standardized work across multiple language and cultural platforms. In this book Shingo Prize-winning author Patrick Graupp collaborates with two practitioners who performed the planning and implementation of the LEGO Group‘s worldwide Learning Organization. The book outlines the organizational and planning models used by the LEGO Group to create the internal ability to give and receive tacit skills and knowledge. Describing how and why TWI is used as the foundation for success in knowledge transfer across diverse languages and cultures it provides step-by-step guidance on how to establish a solid organizational foundation for your own Learning Organization. Providing expert insight into the work of culture change the book explains how to work with people to create motivation for moving to a new system of learning. It details the critical elements that made the implementation at the LEGO Group a success identifies the stumbling blocks they encountered along the way and explains how they were overcome. Case studies describe in detail what these efforts looked and felt like in actual application. The TWI program has long been recognized for its ability to generate results. After reading this book you will gain valuable insight into how your organization whether large or small national or international can integrate this timeless tool into your operating structure and your daily culture. | Building a Global Learning Organization Using TWI to Succeed with Strategic Workforce Expansion in the LEGO Group

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Disruptive Leadership Apple and the Technology of Caring Deeply-Nine Keys to Organizational Excellence and Global Impact

Disruptive Leadership Apple and the Technology of Caring Deeply-Nine Keys to Organizational Excellence and Global Impact

Disruptive leadership is a topic generating intense interest. Companies all over the world are trying to upend their industry through innovative products and services. Becoming a disruptive organization however is easier said than done. Even more difficult is being a company that continually disrupts. Is it possible to discern a code for how companies can achieve this? In this highly readable and engaging book a disruptive leadership framework is proposed in which caring deeply is placed at the center of the model. By turning care into a focal point a triphasic model is proposed that moves from the personal sphere (individual) to the corporate arena (organizational) and then to the global stage (impact). Nine keys are identified along this path for how companies can realize organizational excellence. While care may seem like a soft concept in the rough and tumble world of business it is argued how it is actually an inspired manner for providing direction structure and know-how that leads to powerful outcomes. Apple is profiled as a leading example of leveraging what is termed the technology of caring deeply. Other companies such as Nike IKEA Zappos Starbucks are also profiled. Finally a leadership canvas is provided to help activate the lessons shared in the book. | Disruptive Leadership Apple and the Technology of Caring Deeply-Nine Keys to Organizational Excellence and Global Impact

GBP 24.99
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Hacking Healthcare How AI and the Intelligence Revolution Will Reboot an Ailing System

Hacking Healthcare How AI and the Intelligence Revolution Will Reboot an Ailing System

In this original work Tom Lawry takes readers on a journey of understanding what we learned from fighting a global pandemic and how to apply these learnings to solve healthcare's other big challenges. This book is about empowering clinicians and consumers alike to take control of what is important to them by harnessing the power of AI and the Intelligent Health Revolution to create a sustainable system that focuses on keeping all citizens healthy while caring for them when they are not. | Hacking Healthcare How AI and the Intelligence Revolution Will Reboot an Ailing System

GBP 28.99
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The Art and Science of Demand and Supply Chain Planning in Today's Complex Global Economy

The Art and Science of Demand and Supply Chain Planning in Today's Complex Global Economy

The demand and supply chain planning process for manufacturers distributors and retailers has evolved over the years. It has gone from a disjointed unconnected slow inaccurate fairly manual set of processes to an integrated timely process enabled by the use and coordination of highly trained people lean agile processes and cutting-edge technology. To make this set of processes work effectively one has to fully understand and appreciate that there is an art and science aspect to the process which can take years of education and experience to fully understand. Essentially this book will offer the reader a chance to fully understand the interconnected set of processes in a best-practice application. Furthermore examples and cases will be used to illustrate its practical application in today’s complex global supply chain. In addition readers will understand and be able to apply and articulate the concepts tools and techniques used in the efficient supply of goods and services in today’s changing global economy. It will help them to learn how businesses through their supply chain work both internally and with their trading partners – both upstream and downstream – to build strong relationships and integrate demand and supply planning activities across the supply chain to deliver customer value efficiently and effectively. They will learn about the tools and technologies enabling integration and the critical drivers and key metrics of supply chain performance. | The Art and Science of Demand and Supply Chain Planning in Today's Complex Global Economy

GBP 32.99
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Developing an ISO 13485-Certified Quality Management System An Implementation Guide for the Medical-Device Industry

Developing an ISO 13485-Certified Quality Management System An Implementation Guide for the Medical-Device Industry

Developing an ISO 13485-Certified Quality Management System: An Implementation Guide for the Medical-Device Industry details the lessons learned from a real-world project focusing on building an ISO 13485:2016 Quality Management System (QMS) from scratch and then having it officially certified. It is a practical guide to building or improving your existing QMS with tried and tested solutions. The book takes a hands-on approach–first teaching the top 25 lessons to know before starting to develop a QMS and then walking you through the process of writing the quality manual and the standard operating procedures training the staff on the QMS organizing an internal audit executing a management review and finally passing the necessary external audits and obtaining certification. It helps you to progress from one task to the next and provides all the essential information to accomplish each task as quickly and efficiently as possible. It does not attempt to replicate the standard but instead drills into the standard to expose the core of each section of the standard and reorganize its contents into a practical workflow for developing maintaining and improving a Lean QMS. The book includes a wealth of real-world experience both from the author's personal dive into quality management and from the experiences of other companies in the field and provides handy checklists for ensuring key documents and processes are fit for use–the emphasis here is to help ensure you have considered all relevant aspects. In addition the book is not intended as a “cheat sheet” for the standard or as a review of the standard that only adds lengthy commentary on each of the clauses. Instead the book fixes easy misunderstandings regarding QMS provides insight into why the various clauses are written the way they are and provides a great base to both understanding ISO 13485 QMS and developing your own QMS. The book is intended to serve both experts and novices audiences–it provides special insight on the most crucial and effective aspects of QMS. | Developing an ISO 13485-Certified Quality Management System An Implementation Guide for the Medical-Device Industry

GBP 48.99
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Handling the Medical Claim An 8-Step Guide on “How To” Correct and Resolve Claim Issues

Handling the Medical Claim An 8-Step Guide on “How To” Correct and Resolve Claim Issues

When a doctor sees a patient how does the doctor‘s office get paid? If a claim for a service or procedure provided is denied how does the doctor‘s office get the patient‘s insurance company to pay? Handling the Medical Claim: An 8-Step Guide on How To Correct and Resolve Claim Issues explains from beginning to end how to bill and collect on claims for services provided in a physician‘s office. Focusing on the CMS-1500 claim form the book explains how to prepare and file the form to submit charges to patients insurance companies. Written by a medical billing specialist experienced in handling medical claims and denials on both the provider and insurer sides of the business this step-by-step guide begins by covering some basic good practice management skills. Next it outlines each department‘s specific duties based on the each department‘s responsibilities for specific parts of the claim. In addition to learning how to submit and resolve claims that cannot be processed or are denied readers will learn how to: Enter data in the doctor‘s schedule including appointment types Gather patient data from medical records Register patients including patient information guarantor and policyholder and insurance information Input information about the appointment and diagnosis Use the different types of coding systems used for billing charges Understand the claim cycle determine reimbursement and apply payment Obtain patient and insurance information Appeal a denied claim and handle patient balances The book includes case examples and step-by-step guidance for resolving claim issues that could arise including how to determine what part of the chapter you can find your answer and how to link your findings to the box number on the claim form to which the problem pertains. Highlighting opportunities for | Handling the Medical Claim An 8-Step Guide on “How To” Correct and Resolve Claim Issues

GBP 170.00
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Lean Six Sigma International Standards and Global Guidelines

Lean Six Sigma International Standards and Global Guidelines

A hybrid methodology Lean Six Sigma (LSS) is designed to accommodate global challenges and constraints by capitalizing on Six Sigma and Lean Thinking. LSS incorporates best practices from programs such as the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) Capability Maturity Model and Total Quality Management. International LSS practitioners must understand the dynamics of LSS along with its cultural aspects and regulations. Lean Six Sigma: International Standards and Global Guidelines provides this understanding. This book assumes that the overall goal of operational excellence is to ensure that organizational tasks and activities are being performed to the best of their process capabilities. It defines continuous improvement as activities that support and empower environments to make flexible decisions that lead to ongoing improvement and effectiveness. Coverage includes: New global LSS standards International implementation of process improvement programs New international LSS applications International LSS areas of competency This book defines many of the terms popularized by process improvement programs such as center of excellence and business transformation. It documents these practices and explains how to perform future activities in accordance with the recorded practices. Exploring international approaches to LSS it details the new ISO Standard for Six Sigma and also addresses the role of project management in LSS. Illustrating the synergies between Lean and Six Sigma and how they partner with other process improvement programs and initiatives this book is an ideal study guide for those preparing to take the LSS Black Belt certification exam. This third edition covers important updates such as: How innovation is being integrated The way in which Lean leadership is now being accomplished globally Newer case studies with specific attention to how Lean and Six Sigma are being monitored in healthcare and government Highlighting updated successes and the consideration of diversity and equity issues as they relate to LSS | Lean Six Sigma International Standards and Global Guidelines

GBP 38.99
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Lean Six Sigma International Standards and Global Guidelines Second Edition

Lean Six Sigma International Standards and Global Guidelines Second Edition

A hybrid methodology Lean Six Sigma (LSS) is designed to accommodate global challenges and constraints by capitalizing on Six Sigma and Lean Thinking. LSS incorporates best practices from programs such as the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) Capability Maturity Model and Total Quality Management. International Lean Six Sigma practitioners must understand the dynamics of LSS along with its cultural aspects and regulations. Lean Six Sigma: International Standards and Global Guidelines Second Edition provides this understanding. The book assumes that the overall goal of operational excellence is to ensure that organizational tasks and activities are being performed to the best of their process capabilities. It defines continuous improvement as activities that support and empower environments to make flexible decisions that lead to ongoing improvement and effectiveness. Coverage includes: New global LSS standards International implementation of process improvement programs New international LSS applications International Lean Six Sigma areas of competency The book defines many of the terms popularized by process improvement programs such as center of excellence and business transformation. It documents these practices and explains how to perform future activities in accordance with the recorded practices. Exploring international approaches to Lean Six Sigma it details the new ISO Standard for Six Sigma and also addresses the role of project management in LSS. Illustrating the synergies between Lean and Six Sigma and how they partner with other process improvement programs and initiatives this book is an ideal study guide for those preparing to take the LSS Black Belt certification exam. | Lean Six Sigma International Standards and Global Guidelines Second Edition

GBP 180.00
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5S for the Office Organizing the Workplace to Eliminate Waste

5S for the Office Organizing the Workplace to Eliminate Waste

Although office and administrative activities are usually 60 percent of the production costs in most manufacturing organizations these areas often get excluded during lean initiatives. To achieve lean office activities must fully support shop floor manufacturing operations to eliminate waste. The adoption of 5S throughout all office and administrative functions is the first step to increase efficiency. In 5S for the Office: Organizing the Workplace to Eliminate Waste Tom Fabrizio and Don Tapping bring the concepts of the 5S System - effective tools for the elimination of waste on the shop floor - into the office environment. The activities at the heart of 5S for the Office (organizing ordering cleaning standardizing and sustaining all of these) are completely logical. They are the basic rules for managing any effective workplace. However it is the systematic method with which the 5S system approaches these activities that makes it unique. This book is a blueprint for building a Lean foundation for your office Readers of this book can immediately apply the concepts of 5S to their office and administrative activities resulting in the elimination of waste reduced production costs and increased profits. To introduce the 5S system and sell its use to executives as well as workers consider purchasing - ; 5S System: An Introduction DVD Catalog no. PP5934 Adhering to the principle of efficiency that defines this revolutionary and proven system this video succinctly explains what is involved who should participate and what it will take to get started. | 5S for the Office Organizing the Workplace to Eliminate Waste

GBP 170.00
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Nursing and Informatics for the 21st Century - Embracing a Digital World 3rd Edition Book 4 Nursing in an Integrated Digital World that Su

Nursing and Informatics for the 21st Century - Embracing a Digital World 3rd Edition Book 4 Nursing in an Integrated Digital World that Su

In Nursing in an Integrated Digital World that Supports People Systems and the Planet the leading-edge innovators in digital health applications global thought leaders and multinational cooperative research initiatives are woven together against the backdrop of health equity and policy-setting bodies such as the United Nations and the World Health Organization. As the authors prepared this book the world is struggling with the core issues of access to care access to needed medical equipment and supplies and access to vaccines. This access theme is reflected throughout the policy and world health chapters with an emphasis on how this COVID-19 pandemic is exposing the fissures divides unfairness and unpreparedness that are in play across our globe. Sustainability and global health policy are linked to the new digital technologies in the chapters that illustrate healthcare delivery modalities that nurse innovators are developing leading and using to deliver care to hard-to-reach populations for better population health. A trio of chapters focus on the underlying need for standards to underlie nursing care in order to capture the data needed to enable new science and knowledge discoveries. The authors give particular attention to the cautions potential for harm and biases that the artificial intelligence technologies of algorithms and machine learning pose in healthcare. Additionally they have tapped legal experts to review the legal statues government regulations and civil rights law in place for patients’ rights privacy and confidentiality and consents for the United States the United Kingdom and the European Union. The book closes with a chapter written by the editors that envisions the near future—the impact that the new digital technologies will have on how care is delivered expanding care settings into community and home virtual monitoring and patient generated data as well as the numerous ways that nurses’ roles and technology skill sets must increase to support the global goals of equal access to healthcare. Nursing and Informatics for the 21st Century – Embracing a Digital World 3rd Edition is comprised of four books which can be purchased individually: Book 1: Realizing Digital Health – Bold Challenges and Opportunities for Nursing Book 2: Nursing Education and Digital Health Strategies Book 3: Innovation Technology and Applied Informatics for Nurses Book 4: Nursing in an Integrated Digital World that Supports People Systems and the Planet | Nursing and Informatics for the 21st Century - Embracing a Digital World 3rd Edition Book 4 Nursing in an Integrated Digital World that Su

GBP 69.99
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Leading Transformations Using the LEGO Way of Change to Drive Transformations Effectively and Successfully

Leading Transformations Using the LEGO Way of Change to Drive Transformations Effectively and Successfully

The world and its business environments are in a state of constant change. The reality today is that organizations and their leaders are faced with increasingly daunting demands for change and unless they build organizations that can keep pace with these fast-changing environments it will be a challenge simply to survive while at the same time continuing to thrive and embrace uncertainty and disorder. One effective example of a world-renowned company that survived an existential crisis to become one of the most iconic companies in the world: The LEGO Group. In Building a Global Learning Organization (CRC Press 2014) the authors showed how to develop and implement a global structure for learning based on the TWI (Training Within Industry) methods. In that book you learned how the LEGO Group worked on business transformation through changes in organizational learning systems including new ways of working and other Lean transformational initiatives. Great organizations have used that book as a benchmark for global and national rollouts of TWI programs and standard work initiatives. In this book you get inspiration on how the LEGO Group met these challenges by developing and implementing a framework for transformations to create a common approach to designing leading and anchoring change in an effective and impactful way. You get insights into the journey which began by designing the LEGO Way of Change the process of testing the approach in a bigger transformation which based on pilot learnings was implemented in transformational initiatives. This book outlines some of the approaches that the LEGO Group implemented in order to ensure change would be both successfully implemented and sustained including in-depth guides on impactful interventions with both leaders and people in the organization. The author discusses personalizing and navigating change as well as designing change in the organization and measuring its impact. You will continue learning more from specific real-life case studies from business leaders focused on different kinds of transformation from reshaping functional teams to optimizing lead time through improved ways of working. When it comes down to it change is about the people side of the equation. It is easy to change strategy process or technology but it is harder to change individuals people and their behaviors. This book will provide inspiration and guidance on how to bring the people side of change into play in an effective and impactful way. | Leading Transformations Using the LEGO® Way of Change to Drive Transformations Effectively and Successfully

GBP 38.99
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Simplifying Risk Management An Evidence-Based Approach to Creating Value for Stakeholders

Simplifying Risk Management An Evidence-Based Approach to Creating Value for Stakeholders

Recent decades have seen much greater attention paid to risk management at an organizational level as evidenced by the proliferation of legislation regulation international standards and good practice guidance. The recent experience of Covid-19 has only served to heighten this attention. Growing interest in the discipline has been accompanied by significant growth in the risk management profession; but practitioners are not well served with suitable books to guide them in their work or challenge them in their professional development. This book attempts to place the practice of risk management within organizations into a broader context looking as much at why we try to manage risk as how we try to manage risk. In doing so it challenges two significant trends in the practice of risk management: • The treatment of risk management primarily as a compliance issue within an overall corporate governance narrative; and • The very widespread use of qualitative risk assessment tools (“heat maps” etc. ) which have absolutely no proven effectiveness. Taken together these trends have resulted in much attention being devoted to developing formalized systems for identifying and analyzing risks; but there is little evidence that this is driving practical cost-effective efforts to actually manage risk. There appears to be a preoccupation with the risks themselves rather than a focus on the positive actions that can (and should) be taken to benefit stakeholders. This book outlines a simple quantitative approach to risk management which refocuses attention on treating risks; and presents choices about risk treatment as normal business decisions. | Simplifying Risk Management An Evidence-Based Approach to Creating Value for Stakeholders

GBP 39.99
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The New Entrepreneur's Guide to Setting Up and Running a Successful Business

The New Entrepreneur's Guide to Setting Up and Running a Successful Business

This is the book you will need if you are considering setting up your own business. It is aimed at the new business owner who has a lot of questions to ask. It has been written by a successful business owner and provides advice on what and what not to do. While it is not intended to be a global reference book it does provide the reader with practical answers to the issues they will come across everyday and includes examples of successes and failures from both the US and U. K. perspectives. | The New Entrepreneur's Guide to Setting Up and Running a Successful Business

GBP 31.99
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ISO 45001 Implementation How to Become an Occupational Health and Safety Champion

ISO 45001 Implementation How to Become an Occupational Health and Safety Champion

Over two million people worldwide die every year due to work-related accidents and illness which corresponds to over 6000 deaths every day (International Labour Organisation 2020). Globally there are about 340 million occupational accidents and 160 million victims of work-related injuries and illness each year (International Labour Organisation 2020). Occupational health and safety is a major challenge for many organizations. Regardless of the size and nature of their business organizations should protect their people and provide a safe and healthy working environment. They should identify the potential health and safety risks present in their workplace and take appropriate action to keep their workers free from harm. Occupational safety focuses on potential safety hazards that can cause injury. Occupational health on the other hand looks at potential health issues such as occupational medicine occupational hygiene and primary health care including the wellbeing of workers. For organizations that want to implement an occupational health and safety management system based on the ISO 45001:2018 standard but are not familiar with its structure and definitions it often takes a significant amount of resources to understand the requirements of the standard and plan their implementation. This book provides guidance in establishing an occupational health and safety management system linked to the requirements of ISO 45001:2018. It aims to explain all the requirements of ISO 45001:2018 clause by clause to provide guidance to: • Organizations preparing for ISO 45001:2018 implementation • Individuals who want to build a career in occupational health and safety • Health and safety practitioners and managers who want to improve their occupational health and safety performance • Occupational health and safety consultants who prepare their clients for ISO 45001:2018 certification audits • Internal and external auditors who audit occupational health and safety management systems. In addition to the requirements of the standard this book includes industry best practices methods and techniques to address these requirements. While clarifying each requirement of the standard it also discusses the steps needed to achieve the requirement areas that auditors may check and mandatory or voluntary documents that may be maintained or retained to demonstrate conformity with the requirement. | ISO 45001 Implementation How to Become an Occupational Health and Safety Champion

GBP 42.99
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Dubai - The Epicenter of Modern Innovation A Guide to Implementing Innovation Strategies

Dubai - The Epicenter of Modern Innovation A Guide to Implementing Innovation Strategies

International and global in nature Dubai - The Epicenter of Modern Innovation: A Guide to Implementing Innovation Strategies provides a roadmap for the successful implementation of innovation for companies and businesses currently working in the Middle East the UAE and more specifically Dubai. The discussion focuses on implementing sustained innovation success within several industry segments while identifying past current and future innovation-related successes that are leading to Dubai's rise as the epicenter of innovation in the Middle East and most notably the world. The authors share key innovation leadership philosophies from Sheikh Mohammed bin Al Maktoum recognized business leaders and the highest levels in the UAE. This book:Features key leadership and innovation insights relative from the highest levels of government including Sheikh Mohammed bin Al Maktoum and multiple UAE ministry officials. Focuses on the United Arab Emirates (UAE) most specifically Dubai and the Nation’s preparation for hosting World Expo 2020. Contains numerous examples of past present and future innovations in Dubai. Provides an easy to implement innovation process management methodology which has been tested to work in various businesses and organizations. Authored by individuals who have 'on the ground' experience living and working with the chief architects of Dubai's innovation vision and strategy. This book will attempt to take the reader through the construct of this new innovative revolution particularly in Dubai and provide a bird’s-eye view of how it came about. Most notably the discussion will walk the reader through key milestones instrumental to Dubai’s success—such as the present and past leadership culture strategy and strategic vision. In addition the discussion will present an industry agnostic agile and progressive approach to building and leading successful innovation teams through to a successful project out-come and the attributes of good innovation leadership. | Dubai - The Epicenter of Modern Innovation A Guide to Implementing Innovation Strategies

GBP 31.99
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The Framework for Innovation A Guide to the Body of Innovation Knowledge

The Framework for Innovation A Guide to the Body of Innovation Knowledge

The innovation infrastructure and master plan described in this book offers a detailed and comprehensive approach to one of the most difficult and challenging problems facing entrepreneurs involved in innovation at any scale enterprise: the problem of how to govern your organization’s innovation initiatives in the middle of turbulent change. Progress in any field requires the development of a framework a structure that organizes the accumulating knowledge enables people to master it and unifies the key discoveries into a set of principles that makes them understandable and actionable. For starters successful innovation requires an integrated design process beginning with integration in the design of the enterprise the design of the product along with the design and implementation of new technologies. Such an integrated design effort requires good collaboration and management of the design framework and should be supported by efficient knowledge management techniques and tools; If innovation is to help a business grow and improve its competitiveness it is also important to plan the innovation carefully. This book provides a holistic multidisciplinary framework that will enable your organization and its leaders to take a strategic approach to innovation. The framework combines non-traditional creative approaches to business innovation with conventional strategy development models. The framework model brings together perspectives from many complementary disciplines: the non-traditional approaches to innovation found in the business creativity movement; multiple-source strategy consulting; the new product development perspective of many leading industrial design firms; qualitative consumer/customer research; future-based research found in think tanks and traditional scenario planning; and organizational development (OD) practices that examine the effectiveness of an organization’s culture processes and structure. Though some ideas may just fall from the sky or come out of the blue an organization should also have a strategic vision of how the business and the enterprise will successfully develop. It should not just wait for the innovation to arrive arbitrarily but rather proactively plan for innovation incorporating market trends the competitive landscape new technology availability and changes in customer preferences and trends in order to create a flexible in-house innovation process. Such an enterprise will also pro-actively manage the knowledge supply chain that supports innovation as outlined in this book #7 of Management Handbook for Results series. The framework outlined in this handbook consists of a well-integrated cohesive set of practices that inspires imaginative innovation teams to look beyond the obvious and explore a broad range of possibilities to identify significant opportunities and make informed decisions about the most promising paths to pursue. The goal is to create a shared vision for growth along with defining pragmatic action plans that bridge from the future back to the present while attempting to align the organization around the requirements for success. | The Framework for Innovation A Guide to the Body of Innovation Knowledge

GBP 39.99
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The Handbook of Continuing Professional Development for the Health Informatics Professional

The Handbook of Continuing Professional Development for the Health Informatics Professional

Engaging in ongoing continuing professional development (CPD) is a strategic imperative for the health informatics professional. In our global economy healthcare is fast-paced dynamic and ever-changing. While this rapid change is both exciting and exhausting digital health transformation is positively impacting lives today and every day in ways not previously imagined. Faced with a COVID-19 pandemic that has forever changed the landscape of health and care delivery global health and care stakeholders must ensure that our ecosystem continues to rapidly evolve through innovation government and ministry incentives and technological advancements to reach citizens everywhere. For these reasons health informaticists must embrace lifelong learning to ensure they have the professional competencies to advance initiatives that positively impact patient care. The Handbook of Continuing Professional Development for the Health Informatics Professional Second Edition has adapted to the evolving needs of health and care professionals everywhere. The Handbook provides the rationale and the resources to do so and serves as a reference to enhance one’s career. No other comprehensive resource exists to assist health informaticists in developing and maintaining their professional competencies. Written as a contributed compilation of topics by leading practitioners the book discusses the most critical competencies needed to ensure understanding of the vast health and care ecosystem while also highlighting industry influences that shape the very evolution of health information and technology. About HIMSS The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) is a global advisor thought leader and member association committed to transforming the health ecosystem. As a mission-driven non-profit HIMSS offers a unique depth and breadth of expertise in health innovation public policy workforce development research and analytics to advise leaders stakeholders and influencers from across the ecosystem on best practices. With a community-centric approach our innovation engine delivers key insights education and engaging events to healthcare providers payers governments startups life sciences and other health services organizations ensuring they have the right information at the point of decision. HIMSS has served the global health community for more than 60 years with focused operations across North America Europe the United Kingdom the Middle East and Asia-Pacific.

GBP 38.99
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The Lean Approach to Digital Transformation From Customer to Code and From Code to Customer

The Lean Approach to Digital Transformation From Customer to Code and From Code to Customer

The Lean Approach to Digital Transformation: From Customer to Code and From Code to Customer is organized into three parts that expose and develop the three capabilities that are essential for a successful digital transformation: 1. Understanding how to co-create digital services with users whether they are customers or future customers. This ability combines observation dialogue and iterative experimentation. The approach proposed in this book is based on the Lean Startup approach according to an extended vision that combines Design Thinking and Growth Hacking. Companies must become truly customer-centric from observation and listening to co-development. The revolution of the digital age of the 21st century is that customer orientation is more imperative - the era of abundance usages rate of change complexity of experiences and shift of power towards communities - are easier using digital tools and digital communities. 2. Developing an information system (IS) that is the backbone of the digital transformation – called “exponential information system” to designate an open IS (in particular on its borders) capable of interfacing and combining with external services positioned as a player in software ecosystems and built for processing scalable and dynamic data flows. The exponential information system is constantly changing and it continuously absorbs the best of information processing technology such as Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. 3. Building software “micro-factories” that produce service platforms which are called “Lean software factories. ” This “software factory” concept covers the integration of agile methods tooling and continuous integration and deployment practices a customer-oriented product approach and a platform approach based on modularity as well as API-based architecture and openness to external stakeholders. This software micro-factory is the foundation that continuously produces and provides constantly evolving services. These three capabilities are not unique or specific to this book they are linked to other concepts such as agile methods product development according to lean principles software production approaches such as CICD (continuous integration and deployment) or DevOps. This book weaves a common frame of reference for all these approaches to derive more value from the digital transformation and to facilitate its implementation. The title of the book refers to the “lean approach to digital transformation” because the two underlying frameworks Lean Startup and Lean Software Factory are directly inspired by Lean in the sense of the Toyota Way. The Lean approach is present from the beginning to the end of this book - it provides the framework for customer orientation and the love of a job well done which are the conditions for the success of a digital transformation. | The Lean Approach to Digital Transformation From Customer to Code and From Code to Customer

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The Definitive Guide to Emergency Department Operational Improvement Employing Lean Principles with Current ED Best Practices to Create the

The Definitive Guide to Emergency Department Operational Improvement Employing Lean Principles with Current ED Best Practices to Create the

This revised and updated book explores the academics behind managing the complex service environment that is the Emergency Department (ED) by combining applied management science and practical experiences to create a model of how to improve operations. This book offers a presentation of Lean tools used in the ED along with basic and advanced flow principles. It then shows how these concepts are applied and why they work supported by case studies in which Lean principles were used to transform an underperforming ED into a world-class operation. After reviewing best practices the authors explain how to achieve excellence by discussing the elements of creating a culture of change. | The Definitive Guide to Emergency Department Operational Improvement Employing Lean Principles with Current ED Best Practices to Create the

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The Secret to Maximizing Profitability A Business Novel on How to Successfully Combine The Theory of Constraints Lean and Six Sigma to Dri

The Secret to Maximizing Profitability A Business Novel on How to Successfully Combine The Theory of Constraints Lean and Six Sigma to Dri

This book fully details as the title suggests the real secret to maximizing an organization's profitability. While many companies have implemented improvement initiatives such as Six Sigma and Lean Manufacturing there is a missing link which when discovered and implemented will take these same companies to profit levels not seen before. This missing link is the Theory of Constraints and when it’s combined with Lean and Six Sigma true transformational improvements are sure to follow. In this book the author walks you through the step-by-step method on how to combine these three methodologies with the result being significant improvements to flow major improvements in variation substantial reductions in waste superior on-time delivery and ultimately maximized profitability. He has been using this integrated methodology for many years and each time the results realized were well beyond what the leadership teams had experienced previously. The genesis behind this combined improvement cycle is based upon many years of analysis of both failures and successes using Lean Six Sigma and the Theory of Constraints as stand-alone improvement initiatives. By integrating Lean Six Sigma and the Theory of Constraints into a single improvement cycle the author has developed a recipe that will maximize your return on investment cash flow and net profit. The Secret to Maximizing Profitability is both stimulating and thought provoking but more importantly it will provide your organization with a roadmap for maximizing the use of your resources to achieve more bottom-line improvement than you ever imagined possible. | The Secret to Maximizing Profitability A Business Novel on How to Successfully Combine The Theory of Constraints Lean and Six Sigma to Dri

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