Typically entrenched and systemic, healthcare problems require the sort of comprehensive solutions that can only be addressed by a change in culture and a shift in thinking.
Within manufacturing industries, lean manufacturing and systems rooted in lean principles stand out as the most effective tool used to enhance productivity, quality, and comprehensive economic, environmental, and social sustainability.
Total Organizational Excellence: Achieving world-class performance sets down an implementation framework to guide managers on how to improve business performance in all types of organization.
The cornerstone text onquality management and performance excellence - thoroughly revised to reflectthe latest challenges and developmentsThe body of knowledge for the science ofquality management and performance excellence for more than half-a-century, Juran s Quality Handbook has been completely updated to meetthe ever-changing needs of today s business and quality professionals.
This book is a practical guide to meeting IEC 62304 software-development requirements within the context of an ISO 13485 quality management system (QMS).
This book addresses key topics related to organization design and knowledge management in the digital economy with organizational context, particularly in Asia.
Business and Economics of Port Management is a comprehensive but concise textbook and reference for insights into the workings of port industry from the business and economics perspectives.
This book introduces fundamental, advanced, and future-oriented scientific quality management methods for the engineering and manufacturing industries.
The business, commercial and public-sector world has changed dramatically since John Oakland wrote the first edition of Statistical Process Control - a practical guide in the mid-eighties.
1 + 1 = 100 guides readers through developing, implementing, and maintaining close relationships within their own company (employees, design engineering, product development, sales and marketing, operations, and supply chain) as well out outside (suppliers, customers, and the community).
TWO PROVEN TOOLS FOR SUCCESS IN ONE STEP-BY-STEP POCKET GUIDE Whether you've been using Six Sigma for years or are just starting to, you know it takes hard work to get it right.
In the conditions of the modern market economy, in which globalization and competition are rife, quality is of great importance for determining a company's position in the market.
The industry is currently facing a multitude of challenges on production lines that must be systematically addressed in order to improve quality and productivity.
Dedicated to the proper design, layout, and location of facilities, this definitive textbook outlines the main design and operational problems that occur in manufacturing and service systems, explains the significance of facility design and planning problems, and describes how mathematical models can be used to help analyze and solve them.
More than ten years after his first bestselling book The EMyth changed the lives of hundreds of thousands of small business owners Michael Gerbertrepreneur author and speaker extraordinaireres the next salvo in his highly successful EMyth Revolution.
Germany's economic miracle is a widely-known phenomenon, and the world-leading, innovative products and services associated with German companies are something that others seek to imitate.
As a companion to The ASQ Certified Six Sigma Yellow Belt Handbook, this study guide offers helpful exercises for anyone planning to take the ASQ Certified Six Sigma Yellow Belt (CSSYB) exam.
This title was first published in 2001: Product and particularly customer profitability are black holes in most managers' understanding of their business.
This book describes a variety of teaching and academic research applications that effectively utilize FlexSim to: (1) provide guidelines, methods and tools for simulation modeling and analysis in a variety of educational settings and (2) address a variety of important design and operational issues in industry.
This book not only presents the overall development of quality function deployment (QFD) and what it has been used for to date but a new product support orientation by which it can be employed.
Digitalisation and Organisation Design aims to address key topics related to organisation design and knowledge management in the digital economy with organisational context, particularly in Asia.
Another new book in the popular and original series of pictorial guides - John Oakland cuts through the complex concepts and confusing jargon associated with implementing Total Quality, and Peter Morris presents the information in his inimitable pictorial style.
This book consists of 76 statements on various issues and practices encountered by process improvement/operational excellence (PI OpEx) practitioners, managers, and leaders.
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.
Das Buch umfasst die Themenbereiche Strategisches Produktmanagement; Materialwirtschaft und Beschaffung; die klassische Produktionsplanung und -steuerung (PPS); Supply Chain Management sowie Logistische Steuerungs- und Integrationskonzepte.
For the past decade, process validation issues ranked within the top six of Food and Drug Administration (FDA) form 483 observation findings issued each year.
Ausländische Märkte zu erschließen, Niederlassungen in anderen Ländern zu begründen oder Allianzen mit fremden Partnern einzugehen, ist für Unternehmen ein riskantes Unterfangen.
In an age when most business plans extend only to the next quarterly reporting period, the authors of this book propose an audaciously longer view of future planning.
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.
