Presenting an alternate approach to supply chain management, Lean Supply Chain Management Essentials: A Framework for Materials Managers explains why the traditional materials planning environment, typically embodied by an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system, is an ineffective support system for a company that wants to adopt Lean practices.
This book details a proven recipe for applying Lean, Six Sigma, and the Theory of Constraints in a manner that will maximize return on investment, cash flow, and net profits.
This new book in The LEAN Playbook Series supplies step-by-step guidelines on how to properly implement 5S (Sort, Set in Order, Scrub, Standardize, Sustain) and the visual workplace.
Typically, root cause analysis is taught by explaining a variety of tools that require users to gain considerable experience before being able to apply them correctly in the proper settings.
This book draws together key insights from the relevant literature across diverse disciplines and presents detailed research case studies of six extended global supply chains in three industries: toys, food, and pharmaceuticals.
This book provides a variety of answers in its description and discussion of new, sometimes radical approaches to `usability evaluation', now an increasingly common business tool.
Although most agree that Lean Six Sigma is here to stay, they also agree that learning how to sustain the results seems problematic at best and unattainable at worst.
Of the billions of dollars spent on plant management and operation annually, an estimated 80% of the total amount is spent to rectify the chronic failure of systems, machines, and humans.
The Legacy of 9/11 is a retrospective about how policing, intelligence, and counter-terrorism have changed in the more than twenty years since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
The Legacy of 9/11 is a retrospective about how policing, intelligence, and counter-terrorism have changed in the more than twenty years since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
Explanations of theory, lists of rules, and discussions of procedure are the basis of learning the lean Six Sigma, however without a visceral understanding of the application of this powerful system in various circumstances the knowledge remains, at best, conjecture.
With ever-increasing competitive pressures, the need to reduce the time-to-value (or time-to-bail) of a "e;big idea"e; - a new product, an organizational transformation, a healthcare initiative, or a humanitarian development project - has never been greater.
With ever-increasing competitive pressures, the need to reduce the time-to-value (or time-to-bail) of a "e;big idea"e; - a new product, an organizational transformation, a healthcare initiative, or a humanitarian development project - has never been greater.
The book addresses how power and power resources remain important analytically as well as empirically dimensions for analysing contemporary capitalism.
The book addresses how power and power resources remain important analytically as well as empirically dimensions for analysing contemporary capitalism.
Fabrication Techniques and Machining Methods of Advanced Composite Materials documents the most current inventive developments in the manufacture and machining of sophisticated composite materials.
Fabrication Techniques and Machining Methods of Advanced Composite Materials documents the most current inventive developments in the manufacture and machining of sophisticated composite materials.
Winner of the 2024 Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) Systems Thinking and Change (STC) Division Outstanding Book Award Offering a pathway to vibrant organizations, this book integrates systems thinking, critical thinking, and design thinking, and provides the tools needed to proactively apply them in the social systems where we live and work.
Winner of the 2024 Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) Systems Thinking and Change (STC) Division Outstanding Book Award Offering a pathway to vibrant organizations, this book integrates systems thinking, critical thinking, and design thinking, and provides the tools needed to proactively apply them in the social systems where we live and work.
First published in 1985, Investigating Rape examines practices related with rape in four United States police departments and suggests what lessons the British police service might draw from them.
First published in 1985, Investigating Rape examines practices related with rape in four United States police departments and suggests what lessons the British police service might draw from them.
Strategy and Leadership as Service isn't just a nice idea; it is a practical, alternative vision of the future of work for senior executives that is starting to gain significant interest and is being adopted by businesses globally.
Workplaces where the focus is on innovation, teamwork and learning have become a reality, thanks to a simple, practical, and effective approach called CAL: Codevelopement Action Learning.
For almost every sensationalized media report of product failure, a closer look often determines these failures occurred due to inadequate reliability theory and methodology.
Drawn from recent proceedings of the International Police Executive Symposium (IPES), this volume explores major policing initiatives and evolutions across the globe and presents practical insights on how police are retooling their profession.
This book examines the four components that must be in place for manufacturing and service organizations to achieve world-class business results: leadership and mentoring, process design and visual value streams, organization structure for sustainment, and fast knowledge sharing.
Die Digitalisierung und der technische Fortschritt gewähren dem Arbeitgeber zahlreiche Möglichkeiten, um den Prozess der Personalauswahl zu automatisieren und zu optimieren.
In diesem Buch wird ein Theorieansatz zur Beschreibung der Auswirkungen der Digitalisierung auf die Machtstrukturen innerhalb von Supply Chains erarbeitet.
In diesem Buch wird ein Theorieansatz zur Beschreibung der Auswirkungen der Digitalisierung auf die Machtstrukturen innerhalb von Supply Chains erarbeitet.
Dieses Buch erläutert, warum die innere Haltung von Mitarbeitenden ein entscheidender Erfolgsfaktor ist und wie Vertriebsorganisationen diese gezielt fördern können.
Dieses Buch erläutert, warum die innere Haltung von Mitarbeitenden ein entscheidender Erfolgsfaktor ist und wie Vertriebsorganisationen diese gezielt fördern können.
In diesem Lehrbuch zur Mitarbeiterführung, das sich inzwischen zum Standardlehrbuch für Selbstführung und Führung entwickelt hat, erläutern die Autoren wichtige Entwicklungen und Modelle der Führungsforschung.
In diesem Lehrbuch zur Mitarbeiterführung, das sich inzwischen zum Standardlehrbuch für Selbstführung und Führung entwickelt hat, erläutern die Autoren wichtige Entwicklungen und Modelle der Führungsforschung.
Dies ist ein Buch für alle Führungskräfte, Kommunikations- und Personalverantwortlichen, die ihre Rolle als Kommunikatoren überdenken und neu justieren möchten.