Quality Assurance (QA) and Total Quality Management (TQM)

A few rare companies have discovered the secret to sustained high growth: momentum.

A Practical, Start-to-Finish Approach to Managing, Evolving, and Transforming Legacy IT Systems For every IT executive, manager, architect, program leader, project leader, and lead analyst "e;Richard and Kevin introduce us to a reality that's often neglected in our industry: the problem of evolving legacy systems, a domain they call 'Brownfield development.

Apply Six Sigma to Your #1 Business Challenge: Pricing "e;Six Sigma is well known for having helped companies save billions of dollars.

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Use Six Sigma to achieve and sustain excellence in product development and commercialization!

The Definitive Six Sigma Guide for Healthcare: Methodologies, Tools, and Metrics Rising costs are making healthcare unaffordable for millions, and 100,000 people die every year due to medical error.

CERT(R) Resilience Management Model (CERT-RMM) is an innovative and transformative way to manage operational resilience in complex, risk-evolving environments.

CERT(R) Resilience Management Model (CERT-RMM) is an innovative and transformative way to manage operational resilience in complex, risk-evolving environments.

CMMI(R) for Services (CMMI-SVC) is a comprehensive set of guidelines to help organizations establish and improve processes for delivering services.

CMMI(R) for Services (CMMI-SVC) is a comprehensive set of guidelines to help organizations establish and improve processes for delivering services.

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What's the best way to drive fundamental, transformative change within your organization?

The only book on the market that provides a simple nonmathematical presentation of the statistics needed by Six Sigma Green Belts.

Leading Six Sigma is the complete guide to leading quality initiatives in your company.

"e;Much has been said or written in recent times about the value of Six Sigma methodologies in driving organizational improvement.

This document discusses how technical leaders and management professionals can implement Six Sigma for the processes they oversee.

Multistate System Reliability with Dependencies explains how to select a model of load sharing that best describes the impact of changes in reliability states of components.

This book aims to provide new research methods, theories and applications from various areas of management and engineering.

This book aims at providing cases with inspiring findings for global researchers in capacity allocation and reservation.

Regulatory Affairs in the Pharmaceutical Industry is a comprehensive reference that compiles all the information available pertaining to regulatory procedures currently followed by the pharmaceutical industry.

Advance in your product management career and create innovative products that customers love!

This book discusses inventory models for determining optimal ordering policies using various optimization techniques, genetic algorithms, and data mining concepts.

Equipment Qualification in the Pharmaceutical Industry provides guidance and basic information for the preparation of a quality qualification program.

Pharmaceutical Quality by Design: Principles and Applications discusses the Quality by Design (QbD) concept implemented by regulatory agencies to ensure the development of a consistent and high-quality pharmaceutical product that safely provides the maximum therapeutic benefit to patients.

Mergers, Acquisitions, and Other Restructuring Activities: An Integrated Approach to Process, Tools, Cases, and Solutions, Tenth Edition, is the most comprehensive and cutting-edge text available on the subject.

The Economics and Politics of China's Energy Security Transition clarifies China's energy and foreign policies through a comprehensive examination of energy sources, providing an insider's unique perspective for assessing China's energy policies.

Mergers, Acquisitions, and Other Restructuring Activities: An Integrated Approach to Process, Tools, Cases, and Solutions, Tenth Edition, is the most comprehensive and cutting-edge text available on the subject.

Standards, Quality Control and Measurement Sciences in 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing addresses the critical elements of the standards and measurement sciences in 3D printing to help readers design and create safe, reliable products of high quality.

Evidence-Based Validation of Herbal Medicines brings together current thinking and practice in the areas of characterization and validation of natural products.

This book provides a theoretical basis for understanding the phenomenon of renegotiations in Public Private Partnerships (PPPs).

Global Production is the first book to provide a fully comprehensive overview of the complicated issues facing multinational companies and their global sourcing strategies.

The Essential Persona Lifecycle: Your Guide to Building and Using Personas offers a practical guide to the creation and use of personas, which can help product designers, their team, and their organization become more user focused.

Fully grasp the core principles of logistics, distribution management and the supply chain, in addition to emerging trends and the latest technologies, with this definitive guide that offers clear and straightforward explanations.

Pharmaceutical Microbiology: Essentials for Quality Assurance and Quality Control presents that latest information on protecting pharmaceutical and healthcare products from spoilage by microorganisms, and protecting patients and consumers.

Adiabatic shear localization is a mode of failure that occurs in dynamic loading.

Digital Video Surveillance and Security provides a blueprint for the IP-based electronic security system clients need, allowing security professionals to protect their client's place of business or home.

Risk is the single most prevalent and enduring factor that influences every individual, organization, and society.

Currently, businesses are forced to be more innovative than ever before.

This research monograph presents an inter-disciplinary study of the impact, and current status, of applications of complexity-related concepts in the early stages of development of Agile Project Management (APM).

This book addresses key topics related to organization design and knowledge management in the digital economy with organizational context, particularly in Asia.

This book addresses key topics related to organization design and knowledge management in the digital economy with organizational context, particularly in Asia.

The fundamental motivation of this book is to contribute to the future advancement of Asset Management in the context of industrial plants and infrastructures.

For newly hired young engineers assigned to their first real 'project', there has been little to offer in the way of advice on 'where to begin', 'what to look out for and avoid', and 'how to get the job done right'.

Six Sigma is Business and Industry's newest recognized quality program.

This book introduces legal aspects of business networks in logistics with the example of shippers' co-operation in cargo bundling, which is the practice of manufacturing and distributing companies (shippers) consolidating cargo before the engagement of a carrier.

ISO 26000 is a voluntary guidance standard that attempts what no other global standard on social responsibility has: to consolidate in one place the fundamental expectations of organizations regarding their responsibilities to society.

This book is a fictionalized account of one teacher's effort in applying process improvement principles to her teaching practices.

Change can be hard.

This ground-breaking book addresses the critical, growing need among health care administrators and practitioners to measure the effectiveness of quality improvement efforts.

Over the past decade, the concept and effective execution of off-line and online social (and business-related) informal peer-to-peer communication has become extremely important to marketers as business-to-consumer (B2C) and business-to-business (B2B) customers have increasingly shown distrust, disinterest, and disdain for most supplier messages conveyed through traditional media.