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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

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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 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

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

The Business of the Metaverse How to Maintain the Human Element Within this New Business Reality

The Logics of Healthcare The Professional’s Guide to Health Systems Science

The Logics of Healthcare The Professional’s Guide to Health Systems Science

Most of the current literature on healthcare operations management is focused on importing principles and methods from manufacturing. The evidence of success is scattered and nowhere near what has been achieved in other industries. This book develops the idea that the logic of production and production systems in healthcare is significantly different. A line of thing that acknowledges the ingenious characteristics of health service production is developed. This book builds on a managerial segmentation of healthcare based on fundamental demand-supply constellations. Demand can be classified with the variables urgency severity and randomness. Supply is constrained by medical technology (accuracy of diagnostics efficacy of therapies) patient health behavior (co-creation of health) and resource availability. Out of this emerge seven demand-supply-based operational types (DSO): prevention emergencies one-visit electives cure care and projects. Each of these have distinct managerial characteristics such as time-perspective level of co-creation value proposition revenue structure productivity and other key performance indicators (KPI). The DSOs can be envisioned as platforms upon which clinical modules are attached. For example any Emergency Department (ED) must be managed to deal with prioritization time-windows agitated patients the necessity to save and stabilize and variability in demand. Specific clinical assets and skill-sets are required for say massive trauma strokes cardiac events or poisoning. While representing different specialties of clinical medicine they when applied in the emergency – context must conform to the demand-supply-based operating logic. A basic assumption in this book is that the perceived complexity of healthcare arises from the conflicting demands of the DSO and the clinical realms. The seven DSOs can neatly be juxtaposed on the much-used Business Model Canvas (BMC) which postulates the business model elements as value proposition; customer segments channels and relations; key activities resources and partners; the cost structure; and the revenue model. | The Logics of Healthcare The Professional’s Guide to Health Systems Science

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Redefining Innovation Embracing the 80-80 Rule to Ignite Growth in the Biopharmaceutical Industry

Redefining Innovation Embracing the 80-80 Rule to Ignite Growth in the Biopharmaceutical Industry

Most people marvel at the level of innovation demonstrated by the biopharmaceutical industry in bringing new products to the market – especially in the past 20 years. However there is a crisis looming in the industry that should be a concern to all of us who take for granted the constant pace at which new treatments and increasingly cures have emerged from the laboratories of current sector incumbents. In the book we examine the evolution of the biopharmaceutical industry to understand how it became what we term a unicorn industry with a unique US-centered business model that has led to multiple blockbuster products (aka unicorns) year after year. We explore how past success has created perceived barriers to innovation diversification beyond the chemical or biological-based biopharmaceutical product and highlight the warning signs of the industry’s decline. We define a potential pathway for transforming the industry’s business model by broadening the definition sources and enablers of innovation beyond the traditional biopharmaceutical product. We introduce and advocate for the 80-80 Rule - Being 80% confident that you will only be 80% right the first time should feel normal. The 80-80 Rule is a theme that emphasizes speed and willingness to embrace uncertainty and overcome internal barriers to change. It sets the standard for redefining innovation as a platform to reignite growth of the biopharmaceutical industry. | Redefining Innovation Embracing the 80-80 Rule to Ignite Growth in the Biopharmaceutical Industry

GBP 31.99
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Authentic Diversity How to Change the Workplace for Good

The Executive's Guide to AI and Analytics The Foundations of Execution and Success in the New World

The Executive's Guide to AI and Analytics The Foundations of Execution and Success in the New World

The Problem? Companies are failing to deliver on AI and analytics with over half stating they are not yet treating data as a business asset. Over half admit that they are not competing on data and analytics. Seven out of 10 companies in a 2020 MIT study reported minimal or no impact from AI so far. Among the 90% of companies that have made some investment in AI fewer than 2 out of 5 (40%) report business gains from AI in the past three years. And only about 25% of organizations have actually forged this data-driven culture. Is investment lacking? No. Companies now are spending more than ever in data analytics and AI technologies. Is it a lack of technology? No. There are fascinating breakthroughs occurring on all fronts with image voice and streaming pattern recognition on the forefront. Is it a lack of technical talent? Not really. While some studies cite that we need to train more data scientists developers and related professionals the curve of demand by supply is dampening. Is it a lack of creating an executable strategic plan? Yes. While there has been a lot of strategic wishing organizations lack meaningful strategic plans. Specifically the development of executable strategies and the leadership to see these strategies brought to fruition. This is the problem. Lack of execution and lack of incorporating key components that align and enable execution of the business strategy to delivery is killing AI and analytics programs. Scott Burk and Gary D. Miner have written this book for executives at all levels who are charged with executing on analytics that need to address this issue. The book provides unique insights into repairing the gaps that programs need to fill to provide value from analytics programs. It complements their three-part series It’s All Analytics! by focusing on leadership decisions that augment data literacy organizational architecture and AI case studies. | The Executive's Guide to AI and Analytics The Foundations of Execution and Success in the New World

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Creativity Innovation and Entrepreneurship The Only Way to Renew Your Organization

Creativity Innovation and Entrepreneurship The Only Way to Renew Your Organization

People with ideas are dreamers. People who get things done are doers. One doer is worth eight dreamers. There are three kinds of people who make up an innovator. There are inventors (people who have new and unique ideas) problem solvers (people who have ideas about how to correct a previous error) and entrepreneurs (people who transform ideas into realities). Put them altogether they spell innovator. Most innovative books today focus on ways to create new and unique ideas; some of them also address problem-solving but this is less than 10% of the methodologies that the innovator needs to master. The approaches used in this book transform an idea into reality or to put it another way deliver innovative products to make a profit for the organization and instill pride in its employees. This means that every step in the process needs to have innovation applied to it in order to meet the expectations and demands of today's sophisticated customer. This book is designed to help the reader and their organization complete the complex process of bringing a new product to market by presenting what is expected at each step in the cycle and providing step-by-step instructions on what to do at each specific step. In large to mid-sized organizations this book is designed to help each individual understand how they fit into the innovative cycle and explains why they should be more creative related to the work they do and more conscious of the contributions they can make. It emphasizes the importance of every individual contributing to the organization's innovative process. The book is designed to help the organization understand its Innovation Systems Cycle. In the early part of the cycle it focuses on weeding out projects that do not have the potential to produce value-added results to the stakeholders. By using the guidelines outlined in this book an organization can reduce its new project failure rate by as much as 50% which should result in almost doubling the organization’s new product output thereby increasing profits by as much as 15%. | Creativity Innovation and Entrepreneurship The Only Way to Renew Your Organization

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Giving Wings to Her Team A Novel About Learning to Coach the Toyota Kata Way

Giving Wings to Her Team A Novel About Learning to Coach the Toyota Kata Way

Denise dreamed of being the kind of leader who empowered and engaged her people but was becoming frustrated and disillusioned. Denise - a fast-rising young consultant at a large advisory firm - lands a job as a manager in industry. Crisis strikes as low-cost competitors take market share and general chaos generates late shipments. Denise goes into Lean consulting mode but quickly learns her supervisors are not buying it. They're not engaged and they find the Lean tools confusing and a distraction from their goals of getting product out. It's going to take some magic - magic that's available to you the reader too! Come with Denise on a journey of discovery and skill development as she moves beyond the tools and concepts of Lean and focuses on daily practice that helps her supervisors achieve their goals. It's about an approach called Toyota Kata that helps anyone develop and apply scientific thinking - an exploratory mindset of curiosity and experimentation. A mentor from an unlikely place appears and shares with Denise how to coach her team. Once her supervisors dig into real problems they face every day they begin to engage. Step by step with insightful inputs from her mentor Denise starts developing the skills to become a coaching manager. She watches her team meet their current challenges and be ready for more. When you teach and practice scientific thinking and coaching skills you give wings to your team and new worlds of opportunity open up. If you're a manager you'll identify with how the team in this story goes beyond general preaching about best practices to practicing how to get to where they want to be. If you're a Lean practitioner frustrated with applying tools with a limited half life you'll learn how to develop people so they can achieve their most important goals and keep going. And if you're already a Toyota Kata practitioner well . you will love this book! | Giving Wings to Her Team A Novel About Learning to Coach the Toyota Kata Way

GBP 24.99
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The Handbook for Market Research for Life Sciences Companies Finding the Answers You Need to Understand Your Market

The Handbook for Market Research for Life Sciences Companies Finding the Answers You Need to Understand Your Market

As innovation moves from the lab to the market a new research phase begins for the entrepreneur: the market research phase. Inspired by a new technology that can change the world critical questions need to be addressed. Is there a market for my innovation? Who are my clients? What do they need? Is my innovation filling that gap in the market? Who are my competitors? How are they approaching the market? If these questions are unaswered entrepreneurs meet potential investors or partners with only a basic understanding of their market. The objective of this book is to fill this gap. It is a practical manual that gives entrepreneurs real-world advice and tools to build a solid market model. The book provides tips models and tools entrepreneurs can use to collect interpret and present their market and integrate it into their business plan. What the entrepreneur learns in this book will help him throughout his journey. After going over the market research process he will learn how to design and use a number of market research tools and how to adapt them in a life science context. From building a web survey to preparing interviews to doing your own secondary research this handbook will help him gain a comprehensive understanding of how to perform his own market research activities and how to analyze his data. Finally a number of frameworks (such as the TAM-SAM-SOM as well as the KANO Model) are described so that he can efficiently share what he has learned using models that simply yet effectively shares findings. | The Handbook for Market Research for Life Sciences Companies Finding the Answers You Need to Understand Your Market

GBP 52.99
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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

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

Courageous Leadership The Missing Link to Creating a Lean Culture of Excellence

Courageous Leadership The Missing Link to Creating a Lean Culture of Excellence

Courageous Leadership: The Missing Link to Creating a Lean Culture of Excellence is one of the firsts of its kind to wade through the confusion among leaders on selecting the type of change approach that will get the best results in their organization. It educates the senior executive leaders and organizational excellence practitioners on the different characteristics of change and answers why the approach to incremental and transitional change cannot deliver the results expected from a transformational change. The author shares his experiences from leading several small and large scale organization transformations in multiple industries across different countries on how to establish a robust foundation for an excellence journey and integrate strategy into daily operations. This book elaborates on the types of courage and what it means to be a courageous leader while leading change in difficult situations and what leaders do differently for putting the organization on a path to excellence and culture transformation. This book shares an innovative design a methodology and an approach that combines best practices and principles from Malcolm Baldrige Shingo Lean Six Sigma Balanced Scorecard accreditation change management patient and family-centered care the Competing Values Framework the LEADS framework and the project management body of knowledge. The implementation of this model at a hospital in Canada propelled the organization further ahead on their transformational journey compared to other organizations that started much earlier. Sensei in Japanese means Teacher and Gyaan in Sanskrit means Knowledge. Brief sections on ‘Sensei Gyaan’ have been interspersed throughout the book to provide valuable tips to the readers based on author’s experiential learnings over the past two decades. This book serves as a practical guide for senior executive leaders and organizational excellence practitioners who wish to embark or are in various stages of their organizational excellence and culture transformation journey. Readers will be guided through 26 elements necessary for establishing a robust foundation and an additional set of 22 Management System elements required to create and sustain a culture of quality across the organization. For leaders in healthcare the book provides a framework guiding principles and associated practices that support the implementation of the 4 core concepts of patient and family centered care namely dignity and respect information sharing participation and collaboration. Included in the book are several examples with creative visuals ready-to-use templates and standard works models guiding principles and strategies based on best practices to assist leaders in their organization excellence journey. | Courageous Leadership The Missing Link to Creating a Lean Culture of Excellence

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Manufacturing Mastery The Path to Building Successful and Enduring Manufacturing Businesses

Manufacturing Mastery The Path to Building Successful and Enduring Manufacturing Businesses

While there are those who say manufacturing is dying it is not and will not. Without a universal vow of poverty growing economies will only increase demand. Manufacturing in the 21st century is not a question of if - Rather it is a function of why what who where and how. The nature and pace of change in those factors are overwhelming many. Fear futile resistance and uncertainty are common. While manufacturing will not die individual manufacturing companies will if they do not learn to thrive in this new world. This book is a dynamic guide for manufacturing leaders who want to reduce the ambiguity and overwhelming changes and develop a realistic progressive and responsive thinking process that enables success. It provides a business operating system framework that is the foundation for connecting the many pieces of a manufacturing business into an effective profitable operation. The author walks through the elements relationships capabilities and mutability 21st-century manufacturing requires. Executives of manufacturing companies will be better able to think about and execute viable strategies leveraging the changing economy. Essentially manufacturing is becoming increasingly complex as are business and socioeconomic and political realities. Rapidly evolving technology adds to the confusing environment that precludes “more of the same better faster and cheaper” as a workable business strategy. The tsunami of information hitting owners and leaders is overwhelming many and it is easy to become frozen in place. Economic growth and improving standards of living require that all of this change be broken into bite-size understandable pieces that thaw the minds of executives allowing them to assess what is best right now and move forward. This book does not overwhelm with details and models; rather it provides thinking and examples in small chunks that enable manufacturers to develop and master skills for high-level strategic leadership in ambiguity. | Manufacturing Mastery The Path to Building Successful and Enduring Manufacturing Businesses

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Baldrige Award Winning Quality How to Interpret the Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence

Baldrige Award Winning Quality How to Interpret the Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence

The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award is the highest level of national recognition for performance excellence that a U. S. organization can receive. Now in its 18th edition Baldrige Award Winning Quality is still the most widely used and recognized book on the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. It provides readers with a simple yet comprehensive resource for understanding the most current criteria for this prestigious business performance award. The definitive resource for helping companies achieve world-class results Baldrige Award Winning Quality � 18th Edition: How to Interpret the Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence is the only book on the Baldrige criteria to detail in simple and straightforward language every category examination item and area to address. From understanding the scoring system to preparing for a site visit it guides you through all stages in the process. Reflecting the new criteria (2013-2014) that address education and healthcare this edition outlines a comprehensive plan that is suitable for any company in any industry. Offering detailed explanations of each of the 17 Examination Items and the 36 Areas to Address that compose the seven major categories the book reveals exactly what examiners look for in each area and suggests what you need to include. It also discusses: Criteria of leadership and the role of senior management in the award process Importance of a long- and short-term strategic plan Where and how to satisfy the requirements for demonstrating effective process and results Lists of state award programs based on the Baldrige criteria Core values and themes that underlie the award How to weigh the importance of the 36 Areas to Address The significance of the Baldrige scoring scale and its role in achieving performance excellence The book devotes a chapter to supplying a | Baldrige Award Winning Quality How to Interpret the Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence

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Learning from the Past Present and Future to Drive Profits to New Levels Roadmaps for Solving and Preventing Problems Making Better Decis

Learning from the Past Present and Future to Drive Profits to New Levels Roadmaps for Solving and Preventing Problems Making Better Decis

The content of this book is centered around three seemingly diverse themes. The first theme is why it’s so important for companies to learn from the past the present and the future. The author covers some of the key learnings from the distant and current past and how these learnings changed the course for many companies. He discusses new learnings that have been developed in our current state and will continue to be brought forward. He provides a look into the future just to make sure companies understand that they should always be looking for better ways to function. The second theme is centered around problem-solving problem prevention and decision-making. That is how to successfully define problems that already exist in your current reality how to prevent problems from occurring in the future and how to make much more effective decisions. Problems have plagued many companies for many years and knowing how to follow a structured approach to solve them should prove to be very useful. And perhaps even more important than solving problems is how companies can go about preventing the problems from occurring in the first place. Think about how your company might look if the plethora of problems to solve didn’t exist. And with current or potential problems many decisions must be made. The final theme in this book is how to successfully implement the Theory of Constraints and then combine Lean Manufacturing Six Sigma and the Theory of Constraints. The Theory of Constraints should be considered the missing link in most improvement initiatives. The author presents in detail why combining the Theory of Constraints with Lean and Six Sigma and all of the associated improvement tools and techniques will take your company to new levels of profitability. He introduces two new roadmaps. One roadmap is on how to implement the Theory of Constraints while the other new roadmap is how to implement my Ultimate Improvement Cycle. | Learning from the Past Present and Future to Drive Profits to New Levels Roadmaps for Solving and Preventing Problems Making Better Decis

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The Resilient Healthcare Organization How to Reduce Physician and Healthcare Worker Burnout

The Resilient Healthcare Organization How to Reduce Physician and Healthcare Worker Burnout

Professional burnout is an epidemic in America. Approximately half of physicians and nurses are affected and at risk for themselves and their patients. Much has been written about professional burnout. The term was originally coined in the 1970s by American psychologist Herbert Freudenberger to describe the consequences of severe stress and high ideals experienced by people working in helping professions. Since then many books have been written to address this looming national public health crisis. But unfortunately there has been much less written from a solution standpoint: getting to the root cause of why this is occurring now more than ever. The Resilient Healthcare Organization engages readers focusing on physicians and healthcare professionals and their experiences and how they overcame a loss of enthusiasm for work feelings of cynicism and a low sense of personal accomplishment. The feelings of emotional exhaustion are characterized by depersonalization and perceived ineffectiveness. These are the cardinal features that define burnout and affect almost 50% of physicians and 30–70% of nurses. This book addresses why burnout is viewed as a threat and how it can be fought. The author discusses the contributing factors and solutions at the health system and societal level. Additionally this book explores the current and future etiology and impacts on physicians and healthcare professionals with a significant emphasis on solutions at both the individual level and the system level. Contributors: Patricia S. Normand MD Bruce Flareau MD Kathleen Ferket MSN APRN Daniel Edelman DO and Peter B. Angood MD. | The Resilient Healthcare Organization How to Reduce Physician and Healthcare Worker Burnout

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The BASICS Lean Implementation Model Lean Tools to Drive Daily Innovation and Increased Profitability

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

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Applying Entrepreneurship to the Arts How Artists Creatives and Performers Can Use Startup Principles to Build Careers and Generate Income