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During the author's decades of experience consulting in the corporate world and teaching management theory at the university level, he has often questioned many modern-day management practices.

The Lean Anthology: A Practical Primer in Continual Improvement presents operations management case studies that illustrate a Lean process improvement journey.

In today's confrontational and connected world, communication is the key strategic act.

In order for an organization to thrive in a competitive business environment, its strategy, people, and branding must be fully optimized.

Agile project management is a proven approach for designing and delivering software with improved value to customers.

Winner of a Shingo Research and Professional Publication AwardThe new edition of this Shingo Prize-winning bestseller provides critical insights and approaches to make any Lean transformation an ongoing success.

Although many books outline approaches for successful ERP implementations, the data shows that most ERP efforts yield minimal return on investment (ROI), with most projects failing.

This book tells the story of an actual Lean transformation that took place in a 100-year-old North American manufacturer's factory.

This book deals with the physical processes used for the separation of secondary metals from waste sources.

This volume details the principles underlying rapid solidification processing, material structure and properties, and their applications.

Competitive Innovation and Improvement: Statistical Design and Control explains how to combine two widely known statistical methods'statistical design and statistical control in a manner that can solve any business, government, or research problem quickly with sustained results.

Reflecting hands-on experience of materials, equipment, tooling and processes used in the industry, this work provides up-to-date information on flat-rolled sheet metal products.

Business performance is rooted in your processes, and superior performance depends on the way you think about and run these processes.

This book covers the fundamental aspects of ceramics and refractories.

Clausewitz Talks Business: An Executive's Guide to Thinking Like a Strategist distills the wisdom of Carl von Clausewitz's monumental 1832 classic On War considered by many eminent scholars as the most distinguished Western work on war ever written.

This book is classified and organised into three major headings: personal effectiveness, leadership, and communication.

As industries adopt consumer-focused product development strategies, they should offer broader product ranges in shorter design times and the processes that can manufacture in arbitrary lot sizes.

The problem with most Hoshin Kanri books is that they describe a complex methodology that is overwhelming to most leaders and their organizations.

The first book in The One-Day Expert series detailed the initial steps that Thomas, a young, high-potential plant manager in an industrial group, took to assess his plant's situation through measurement of operators performance.

Does your organization provide customer satisfaction or does it inspire customer loyalty?

Look around your organization: can you identify who owns project management?

The first edition of this book won a Shingo Prize for Excellence in Manufacturing Research, and now, following in the tradition of its bestselling predecessor, The Complete Lean Enterprise: Value Stream Mapping for Office and Services, Second Edition details a robust step-by-step approach for implementing Lean initiatives in the service industry and office environments.

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.

Developing and maintaining a disciplined management system provides any organization with a blueprint for exceptional performance and success.

Delivering excellent service to all customers is the key imperative for many sustainable businesses.

Part of the Toyota Production System, Kamishibai boards are simple and flexible visual controls for performing audits within a manufacturing process.

Design for Manufacturability: How to Use Concurrent Engineering to Rapidly Develop Low-Cost, High-Quality Products for Lean Production shows how to use concurrent engineering teams to design products for all aspects of manufacturing with the lowest cost, the highest quality, and the quickest time to stable production.

For some organizations, Lessons Learned (LL) is an informal process of discussing and recording project experiences during the closure phase.

During the next 10 years, an estimated 40-50 percent of the partners in public accounting firms will retire.

If you've employed consultants and embarked on a Lean transformation only to find your efforts stall after the consultants leave, this book will teach you what you must do to stay the course over the long term.

Based on a bestselling book originally published in Japanese, Manufacturing Technology Transfer: A Japanese Monozukuri View of Needs and Strategies offers time-tested methods and little-known tips for achieving successful transfer of technology along with the skills required to operate that technology.

Change Management: Manage Change or It Will Manage You represents a substantial core guidance effort for Change Management practitioners.

The basic principle of the Theory of Constraints (TOC) is the impossibility of running a balanced factory at 100 percent capacity.

As machining processes become more advanced, so does the science behind them.

As machining processes become more advanced, so does the science behind them.

Henry Ford's industrial innovations were directly responsible for the transformation of the United States into the most productive, affluent, and powerful nation on Earth.

To better understand and improve your systems, you must measure and map their essential characteristics.

Updated yearly to match changing requirements, this guide is designed to help you understand the criteria for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award.

It is estimated that U.

This book explains how to use Lean principles to drive innovation and strategic portfolio planning.

This textbook teaches the key business and marketing principles needed to successfully design and launch new products and services in an international marketplace.

Recycling of materials in building and infrastructure applications are global concerns driven by natural resource preservation needs of modernized countries and sustainable development of emerging countries.

Recent advances in green technologies and sustainable development deals with cutting-edge research and innovative ideas in different categories of green technologies and operational aspects of sustainable development including renewable energy sources, power systems, mathematical ecol?

Textile Technology and Design addresses the critical role of the interior at the intersection of design and technology, with a range of interdisciplinary arguments by a wide range of contributors: from design practitioners to researchers and scholars to aerospace engineers.

Textile Technology and Design addresses the critical role of the interior at the intersection of design and technology, with a range of interdisciplinary arguments by a wide range of contributors: from design practitioners to researchers and scholars to aerospace engineers.

The development of digital textile printing at the end of the twentieth century has had a profound effect on the design, creation, use and understanding of textiles.

The development of digital textile printing at the end of the twentieth century has had a profound effect on the design, creation, use and understanding of textiles.

Fully revised and with a new chapter and international case studies, this second edition of the best-selling book traces how artists and designers continue to adapt and incorporate 3D printing technology into their work and explains how the creative industries are directly interfacing with this new technology.

Fully revised and with a new chapter and international case studies, this second edition of the best-selling book traces how artists and designers continue to adapt and incorporate 3D printing technology into their work and explains how the creative industries are directly interfacing with this new technology.

To work with the materials of tomorrow, design students across visual arts disciplines need to understand the cutting edge of today.