The Strategic Planning and Deployment Excellence System (SPADES) provides a path to long-term success in the environment of rapidly changing technology and business systems.
This research anthology explores the concept of food production and supply, from farm gate to plate, bringing together contemporary thinking and research on local, national, and global issues from a stakeholder perspective.
Seize the competitive advantage with BPM at the heart of your strategyValue-Driven Business Process Management provides the rationale and methods for using business Process Management (BPM) to gain clarity on how your business operates and develop the ability to put new ideas into action quickly.
The old cliche states that not every manager is a leader, but the more important part of that sentiment is that to be a good manager, one has to be a good leader.
Quality costs help to show the importance of quality-related activities to management; they demonstrate the cost of non-quality to an organization; they track the causes and effects of the problem, enabling the working out of solutions using quality improvement teams, and then monitoring progress.
Researchers and professionals in all walks of life need to use the many tools offered by the statistical world, but often do not have the necessary experience in both concept and application.
Authors Pirasteh and Fox know what causes various improvement approaches to fail, and in response provide a new model that combines theory of constraints (TOC), lean, and Six Sigma into a unique program called TLS.
Perfect for anyone charged with implementing a quality audit program or those performing the audit, this book is an ideal reference on the established techniques of quality auditing.
Strength-based Lean Six Sigma is a new way of approaching process improvement that combines the best practices of two established methodologies to generate a new approach in order to help you develop and deliver increased high performance in any organization.
In this book, we invited 146 authors with expertise in health policy, systems design, management, research, or practice, from each of the countries included, to consider health reforms or systems improvements in their country or region.
This book provides the blueprint for implementation, breaking down barriers, and the steps required to integrate sustainability successfully into any business.
Written for practitioners and students with an engineering background, this book bridges the gap between their understanding of the techniques of quality control and the wider definition of TQM which is now accepted as a key part of business philosophy.
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.
This book provides the blueprint for implementation, breaking down barriers, and the steps required to integrate sustainability successfully into any business.
The 2007 winner of the Masing Book Prize sets out important Six Sigma concepts and a selection of up-to-date tools for quality improvement in industry.
The conventional interpretation of safety, known as Safety-I, denotes a condition where as little as possible goes wrong, and the focus of practical efforts in management or analysis is on the occurrence of unacceptable outcomes and on how to reduce their number to an acceptable level, ideally zero.
Teaches basic and advanced modeling and simulation techniques to both undergraduate and postgraduate students and serves as a practical guide and manual for professionals learning how to build simulation models using WITNESS, a free-standing software package.
Your SOURCE for supply chain management fundamentalsOptimize your understanding of the essential supply chain management practices used by the best firms to gain competitive advantage.
Address the #1 Success Factor in SOA Implementations: Effective, Business-Driven Governance Inadequate governance might be the most widespread root cause of SOA failure.
As a mathematical model for determining the probable number of outcomes, the new Poisson Distribution tables have long been an easier tool to use for reliability analyses.
PROVEN STRATEGIES FOR CREATING CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY PROGRAMSCo-written by Six Sigma Black Belts and LEED Accredited Professionals, this pioneering guide reveals how to use the power of Six Sigma to develop and implement enterprise-wide green initiatives.
