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Production Management Advanced Models Tools and Applications for Pull Systems

Production Management Advanced Models Tools and Applications for Pull Systems

Inventory control is an essential task in production management. An effective inventory control can significantly reduce the holding cost and hence total production cost. Selecting and implementing a suitable production control system plays an important role in inventory reduction and performance improvement of a production system. Since the introduction of Toyota’s just-in-time philosophy pull control systems have been adopted by numerous companies worldwide both in the manufacturing and service sectors. This book provides some recent developments in production management and presents modeling and analysis tools for pull production control systems. It contributes by combining theoretical findings and case study analysis results with a practical and contemporary view on how to effectively manage and control production systems. Each chapter in this book focuses on a specific topic in production control systems allowing readers to identify the chapters that relate to their interests. More specifically the book is presented in three sections. The first section focuses on the design and implementation aspects of the pull production control systems as well as performance evaluation approaches for pull systems. The second section presents a recent and comprehensive literature review. Three different case studies on implementation of pull production control systems are presented in the last section. This book can be used as an essential source for students and scholars who need to specifically study the pull control systems. Since the superiority of these systems is controversial the book can also provide an interesting and informative read for practitioners managers and employees who need to deepen their knowledge on pull production management systems. | Production Management Advanced Models Tools and Applications for Pull Systems

GBP 39.99
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Machine Learning for Business Analytics Real-Time Data Analysis for Decision-Making

Machine Learning for Business Analytics Real-Time Data Analysis for Decision-Making

Machine Learning is an integral tool in a business analyst’s arsenal because the rate at which data is being generated from different sources is increasing and working on complex unstructured data is becoming inevitable. Data collection data cleaning and data mining are rapidly becoming more difficult to analyze than just importing information from a primary or secondary source. The machine learning model plays a crucial role in predicting the future performance and results of a company. In real-time data collection and data wrangling are the important steps in deploying the models. Analytics is a tool for visualizing and steering data and statistics. Business analysts can work with different datasets - choosing an appropriate machine learning model results in accurate analyzing forecasting the future and making informed decisions. The global machine learning market was valued at $1. 58 billion in 2017 and is expected to reach $20. 83 billion in 2024 - growing at a CAGR of 44. 06% between 2017 and 2024. The authors have compiled important knowledge on machine learning real-time applications in business analytics. This book enables readers to get broad knowledge in the field of machine learning models and to carry out their future research work. The future trends of machine learning for business analytics are explained with real case studies. Essentially this book acts as a guide to all business analysts. The authors blend the basics of data analytics and machine learning and extend its application to business analytics. This book acts as a superb introduction and covers the applications and implications of machine learning. The authors provide first-hand experience of the applications of machine learning for business analytics in the section on real-time analysis. Case studies put the theory into practice so that you may receive hands-on experience with machine learning and data analytics. This book is a valuable source for practitioners industrialists technologists and researchers. | Machine Learning for Business Analytics Real-Time Data Analysis for Decision-Making

GBP 48.99
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Continuous Improvement Seek Perfection Embrace Scientific Thinking Focus on Process Assure Quality at the Source and Improve Flow & Pull

Continuous Improvement Seek Perfection Embrace Scientific Thinking Focus on Process Assure Quality at the Source and Improve Flow & Pull

In this third book of the Shingo Model series Continuous Improvement focuses on five of the Shingo Guiding Principles: seek perfection embrace scientific thinking focus on process assure quality at the source and improve flow and pull. Each chapter in Continuous Improvement is designed to enhance your comprehension of one or more aspects of the Continuous Improvement dimension of the Shingo Model and to increase your understanding of how the dimension interrelates with and complements the other principles in the Shingo Model. Ultimately this explanation grounds the technical science of continuous improvement with a powerful social science that focuses on people development. It is this combination that creates the opportunity for improvement to be truly continuous. Because tacit learning is critical to deepening your continuous improvement knowledge Reader Challenges are included throughout the text to encourage you to apply what you have read within the context of your own organization. This hands-on practice is necessary to understand the interrelatedness of principles systems and tools that are inherent in the Shingo Model. The Shingo Institute recognizes that the transformation from traditional philosophy and practices to organizational excellence does not occur without the courage creativity and persistence of everyone in the organization—from executives to managers to team members on the frontline. | Continuous Improvement Seek Perfection Embrace Scientific Thinking Focus on Process Assure Quality at the Source and Improve Flow & Pull

GBP 38.99
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The New Entrepreneur's Guide to Setting Up and Running a Successful Business

The New Entrepreneur's Guide to Setting Up and Running a Successful Business

This is the book you will need if you are considering setting up your own business. It is aimed at the new business owner who has a lot of questions to ask. It has been written by a successful business owner and provides advice on what and what not to do. While it is not intended to be a global reference book it does provide the reader with practical answers to the issues they will come across everyday and includes examples of successes and failures from both the US and U. K. perspectives. | The New Entrepreneur's Guide to Setting Up and Running a Successful Business

GBP 31.99
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Age of Agency Rise with AI

Age of Agency Rise with AI

When the digital world started many companies moved slowly and cautiously not willing to replace their traditional operations. Now most companies have gone digital. We are now moving beyond digital into an AI world. Don't ignore it. This important book will guide you by providing a fresh perspective on the interrelationships between humans and AI. – Philip Kotler Do you feel overwhelmed by the AI wave? Worried that it could cost you your job harm your business or even take over? AI has pervaded our lives and is aggressively disrupting business. No person today can afford to ignore AI. Age of Agency is your companion helping you leverage AI's capabilities to power your productivity and success. By understanding AI you will learn to use it as a tool for personal career growth and business success. Former Microsoft executive Kerushan Govender demystifies AI emphasising the importance of human agency. Reconnect with the needs of humanity and learn the importance of care as a differentiator in an AI world. Avoid the potential pitfalls of excessive reliance on the technology. Age of Agency is a blueprint for ensuring human agency outpaces computer agency. It boldly pits the limits of machine learning against the infinity of human ability. With this survival guide you’ll uncover ways to connect with humanity on a deeper level going beyond anything AI can do. Ready to become AI-savvy with your humanity as your differentiator? Dive into the future with the confidence to ride the wave of today’s AI revolution. | Age of Agency Rise with AI

GBP 26.99
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Job Shop Lean An Industrial Engineering Approach to Implementing Lean in High-Mix Low-Volume Production Systems

Job Shop Lean An Industrial Engineering Approach to Implementing Lean in High-Mix Low-Volume Production Systems

In the 1950’s the design and implementation of the Toyota Production System (TPS) within Toyota had begun. In the 1960’s Group Technology (GT) and Cellular Manufacturing (CM) were used by Serck Audco Valves a high-mix low-volume (HMLV) manufacturer in the United Kingdom to guide enterprise-wide transformation. In 1996 the publication of the book Lean Thinking introduced the entire world to Lean. Job Shop Lean integrates Lean with GT and CM by using the five Principles of Lean to guide its implementation: (1) identify value (2) map the value stream (3) create flow (4) establish pull and (5) seek perfection. Unfortunately the tools typically used to implement the Principles of Lean are incapable of solving the three Industrial Engineering problems that HMLV manufacturers face when implementing Lean: (1) finding the product families in a product mix with hundreds of different products (2) designing a flexible factory layout that fits hundreds of different product routings and (3) scheduling a multi-product multi-machine production system subject to finite capacity constraints. Based on the Author’s 20+ years of learning teaching researching and implementing Job Shop Lean since 1999 this book Describes the concepts tools software implementation methodology and barriers to successful implementation of Lean in HMLV production systems Utilizes Production Flow Analysis instead of Value Stream Mapping to eliminate waste in different levels of any HMLV manufacturing enterprise Solves the three Industrial Engineering problems that were mentioned earlier using software like PFAST (Production Flow Analysis and Simplification Toolkit) Sgetti and Schedlyzer Explains how the one-at-a-time implementation of manufacturing cells constitutes a long-term strategy for Continuous Improvement Explains how product families and manufacturing cells are the basis for implementing flexible automation machine monitoring virtual cells Manufacturing Execution Systems and other elements of Industry 4. 0 Teaches a new method Value Network Mapping to visualize large multi-product multi-machine production systems whose Value Streams share many processes Includes real success stories of Job Shop Lean implementation in a variety of production systems such as a forge shop a machine shop a fabrication facility and a shipping department Encourages any HMLV manufacturer planning to implement Job Shop Lean to leverage the co-curricular and extracurricular programs of an Industrial Engineering department | Job Shop Lean An Industrial Engineering Approach to Implementing Lean in High-Mix Low-Volume Production Systems

GBP 52.99
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Closing the Care Gap with Wearable Devices Innovating Healthcare with Wearable Patient Monitoring

Closing the Care Gap with Wearable Devices Innovating Healthcare with Wearable Patient Monitoring

Patient-focused healthcare driven by COVID-19 experiences has become a hallmark for providing healthcare services to patients across all modalities of care and in the home. The ability to capture real-time patient data no matter the location via remote patient monitoring and to transmit that data to providers and organizations approved by the consumer/patient will become a critical capability for all healthcare providers. Of all the remote patient monitoring product designs wearable medical devices are emerging as the best positioned to support the evolving patient-focused healthcare environment. This book is for those who are evaluating selecting implementing managing or designing wearable devices to monitor the health of patients and consumers. This book will provide the knowledge to understand the issues that mitigate the risk of wearable technologies so people can deliver successful projects using these technologies. It will discuss their use in remote patient monitoring the advantages and disadvantages of different types of physiological sensors different wireless communication protocols and different power sources. It will describe issues and solutions in cybersecurity and HIPAA compliance as well as setting them up to be used in healthcare systems and by patients. | Closing the Care Gap with Wearable Devices Innovating Healthcare with Wearable Patient Monitoring

GBP 44.99
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OEE for Operators Overall Equipment Effectiveness

OEE for Operators Overall Equipment Effectiveness

Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) is a crucial measure in TPM that reports on how well equipment is running. It factors three elements -the time the machine is actually running the quantity of products the machine is turning out and the quantity of good output – into a single combined score. Directly addressing those who are best positioned to track and improve the effectiveness of equipment OEE for Operatorsdefines basic concepts and then provides a systematic explanation of how OEE should be applied to maximize a piece of equipment’s productivity and recognize when its efficiency is being compromised. Features | OEE for Operators Overall Equipment Effectiveness

GBP 175.00
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The Power of One Leading with Civility Candor and Courage

The Power of One Leading with Civility Candor and Courage

Praise for the Power of One. Every leader is focused on how to embrace the significant shifts happening in the workplace and in society at large which are impacting the future of work and the way we connect. The challenge is to find the best path forward. The key to understanding how to tap into your own individual power and influence is through Natasha’s framework: civility candor courage and consciousness. One person CAN make a difference in all aspects of their life and Natasha provides a helpful guide through powerful examples to show you the path to embracing your incredible Power of One. Marla Kaplowitz 4A’s President & CEO The Power of One: Leading with Civility Candor and Courage is a journey of personal power and intentional influence. A better world workplace and community begins with you. You are the it factor. You have the power to use your everyday words and actions to influence extraordinary change in the workplace and beyond. It only takes ONE to make a difference. COVID-19 #MeToo George Floyd—the events and movements of recent years have left us all with a hunger for positive change in every aspect of our lives. Yet most of us think we’re powerless to affect change. This book was written to combat that lie. Within these pages you’ll find out the truth about who you are what you have to offer and how you can cultivate the power within you to create a new positive dynamic in your home office neighborhood and the world. Through powerful storytelling Natasha Bowman provides meaningful and practical examples of how to build a life marked by civility candor and courage as well as how to lead and develop cultures in which those virtues are on full display. You’ll learn how to shape power dynamics that are inclusive and diverse as you become an advocate for true equity. Most importantly you’ll discover how to change lives for the better—starting with your own. Natasha Bowman is an expert in workplace equity and is recognized as a 2020 Top 30 Global Guru for Management. With her consulting firm Performance ReNEW she works with high-profile companies and organizations to gear them up for inclusive success in today’s diverse and demanding world. | The Power of One Leading with Civility Candor and Courage

GBP 28.99
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Leading with Compassion How to Make Leadership Authentic by Managing with Integrity

Leading with Compassion How to Make Leadership Authentic by Managing with Integrity

Business schools teach the transactional tools one needs to work in business. They teach various strategic planning and decision-making models such as SPACE or SWOT or decision trees or weighted grids. They teach about the various functions of an organization financial ratios and breakeven analyses. And they may even have a class on business ethics. But those tools are more about knowing where the business-case boundaries are as a risk prevention measure and do not help one to think about how they should comport themselves as a leader. This book is about helping you to become your best self and helping those around you to achieve their best. Inherently it’s about authenticity integrity and empathy and how these simple traits can lead to high performance. The book explores ways to make our leadership more authentic and to lead with integrity. It discusses how to mentor employees and how this can lead to higher-performing teams and more successful organizations. The book is organized around four major constructs. The first is about personal leadership. It starts with honesty and integrity. That provides the basis for an empathetic leadership style. This is one that helps to engage followers and brings them along because they want to come along for the journey rather than feeling forced. That is the nature of the second construct: building and maintaining high-performing teams. This is then the basis for building a trusting culture. Change is all around us and that can be exhausting. Building a culture of trust is the first step toward building an agile organizational culture. That is the third construct. Finally the last is a message of simple optimism. There are many challenges facing society today but with thoughtful engaging leaders there is hope that we can collectively rise to the challenge. | Leading with Compassion How to Make Leadership Authentic by Managing with Integrity

GBP 27.99
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The Lean Office Collected Practices and Cases

The Lean Office Collected Practices and Cases

The Lean Office: Collected Practices and Cases is a compilation of articles previously published in the Productivity Press newsletter Lean Manufacturing Advisor. These articles discuss lean implementations in non-manufacturing operations from design to processing invoices to customer service. Most articles are written in the form of case studies. Highlights include - Practical in-depth description of lean implementation written in a conversational easy-to-read style A large quantity of case studies unavailable from any other single source Responds to your desire for real-world lean office information | The Lean Office Collected Practices and Cases

GBP 170.00
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Lean for the Process Industries Dealing with Complexity Second Edition

Lean for the Process Industries Dealing with Complexity Second Edition

Compared to its widespread implementation across almost all areas of production Lean improvement efforts lag within the process industries. While many innovators have successfully applied Lean principles to these industries during the past three decades most of those pioneering efforts were never recorded to guide the improvement efforts of others. Drawing on more than 40 years of application experience at one of the world’s largest chemical and materials manufacturers coupled with 10 years in private practice Peter King corrects this void by providing the first comprehensive resource written explicitly for change agents within the process industries. Focusing on areas where the improvement needs of the process industry differ from parts assembly manufacturing Lean for the Process Industries: Dealing with Complexity Second Edition: Covers each of the eight wastes commonly described in Lean literature looking at how they manifest themselves in process operations. Explains how to adapt value stream mapping for process operations. Shows how to identify the root causes of bottlenecks and how to manage them to optimize flow until they can be eliminated. Provides practical techniques to overcome the barriers which have prevented the application of Cellular Manufacturing to process operations. Discusses the role of business leadership in a Lean strategy describing both enabling and counter-productive management behaviors Since the publication of the first edition of this book Peter King has been busy consulting with food beverage gasoline additive and nutraceutical companies - these new experiences have broadened his perspectives on certain Lean processes and have given him a richer set of examples to discuss in this new edition. While Value Stream Mapping is a very powerful tool to understand flow bottlenecks and waste in an operation the traditional format as presented in many other books does not describe all of the data required to fully understand process flow and its detractors. This new edition highlights the necessary additions with examples of why they are useful. Product wheel scheduling achieves production leveling in a far more comprehensive and effective way than traditional heijunka methods. This edition has a more thorough description of the wheel concept and design steps and more examples from actual applications. | Lean for the Process Industries Dealing with Complexity Second Edition

GBP 48.99
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Reshore Production Now How to Rebuild Manufacturing and Restore High Wages High Profits and National Prosperity in the USA

Reshore Production Now How to Rebuild Manufacturing and Restore High Wages High Profits and National Prosperity in the USA

This book addresses the vital importance of reshoring US manufacturing capability to ensure economic and military security and then discusses the proven methods that the United States used to gain manufacturing supremacy in the first place. The vital takeaway is: If the job can be made sufficiently productive the per-unit labor cost ceases to be relevant which means a business can pay high wages realize high profits and deliver low prices simultaneously. The contest is then not between high wages and cheap labor but between efficiency and inefficiency and when automation is involved machine against machine. Readers will be able to put these principles to work very quickly to achieve tangible results. The relatively low Federal minimum wage has meanwhile become a major issue but inflation skyrocketed in the second quarter of 2022 when higher wages and higher demand for goods and services were not matched with higher productivity. The book addresses the relationship between the money supply and the velocity of money to prices wages and productivity. A manufacturing resurgence in the United States will not only increase our standard of living enormously but generate taxable economic activity that will help pay down rather than increase the Federal debt. Higher productivity also delivers a greater supply of goods to accompany higher wages and thus works against inflation. This can prevent looming recessions and disruptions. | Reshore Production Now How to Rebuild Manufacturing and Restore High Wages High Profits and National Prosperity in the USA

GBP 34.99
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Applied Population Health Delivering Value-Based Care with Actionable Registries

Applied Population Health Delivering Value-Based Care with Actionable Registries

Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems today provide increasing levels of clinical decision support and are the fulcrum for change for value-based healthcare delivery. Billions of dollars of government and insurer payments are dependent on evidence-based workflow design and quality report. In this context quality measurement is no longer a retrospective exercise but an essential prospective process embedded in clinical operations. Population health tools in the EHR enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of interventions thus improving the quality of care at lower cost. Population health methods are effective in ensuring that the right patient receives the right care at the right time. This book provides a clear framework for design implementation and monitoring of innovative population health tools to accelerate measurable improvements in care delivery. Key benefits for readers include conceptual framework team approach and technical insights that result in improved patient care improved performance on quality measures and increased revenue from quality performance incentives and risk-based contracts. This is also a practice guide to the healthcare professionals many roles who are eager to build or improve population health programs with the goal of delivering high quality value-based care. | Applied Population Health Delivering Value-Based Care with Actionable Registries

GBP 56.99
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Lean in Agriculture Create More Value with Less Work on the Farm

Lean in Agriculture Create More Value with Less Work on the Farm

Responding to a recent surge in interest and application this book is the first to comprehensively address how Lean thinking and tools can be implemented in agriculture and agribusiness. This tactical guide breaks down barriers clearly depicting how improvement techniques originally developed for factories can derive the same powerful results on farms. Expert Lean farming consultants Susanne Pejstrup and Vibeke Fladkjaer Nielsen present these methods in a clear easy-to-read style accessible to farmers all over the world. Case studies from multiple farm types – including crops pigs and dairy cattle – demonstrate how respect for people continuous improvement and visual management techniques can improve resilience and profitability on the farm. Richly illustrated Lean in Agriculture appeals not only to farmers but to farm workers food processing companies veterinarians consultants and other stakeholders in the agribusiness sector. Key Features: Translates Lean thinking into agricultural terms. Takes a people-centric approach to a Lean agricultural production system. Serves as an implementation guide with clear writing and concise easy-to-follow instructions tailored to the agricultural sector. Illustrates agriculture-specific Lean implementation with a wide range of case studies and memorable images. | Lean in Agriculture Create More Value with Less Work on the Farm

GBP 31.99
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The Elephant in the Room Engaging with the Unsaid in Groups and Organizations

The Elephant in the Room Engaging with the Unsaid in Groups and Organizations

A group is working on a business challenge. The group members are under pressure. They have a lot to accomplish and a limited amount of time. After first attempting to develop an overview of their common task they try to make a plan to ensure an efficient group process. The planning is proving difficult. We’ve all been there. We are in a working group or at a meeting discussing a topic or a challenge and all the while as a separate track running underneath our conversation there is a subtext that no one explicitly addresses. This is an example of ‘the elephant in the room. ’ Most of us notice the elephant it gets in the way and it’s difficult to deal with until someone points at it and says ‘There it is let’s take a look at it and reduce its impact. ’ With an engaging use of examples and questions the book addresses how we can best deal with the elephant and thus promote job satisfaction creativity and productivity. In the context of action what we notice often recedes into the background and gradually slips out of focus until we eventually reconnect with our need to reflect and recreate a space for it. This book addresses the challenge of focusing on holding on to and acting on what we notice ‘in the middle of it all. ’ Maintaining a simultaneous focus on task and process – what we do and what we notice – is what I define as ‘double awareness. ’ Double awareness is not only a core capacity but also a core challenge. The aim of the book is to promote understanding and awareness of this core challenge and to inspire both reflection and action in anyone wishing to improve their capacity for double awareness. How can we define and understand the practice of mindful avoidance? And can we as members of groups and organizations begin to practice mindful action by engaging in and acting on what we notice in real time? | The Elephant in the Room Engaging with the Unsaid in Groups and Organizations

GBP 26.99
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Customer Relationship Management (CRM) for Medium and Small Enterprises How to Find the Right Solution for Effectively Connecting with Your

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) for Medium and Small Enterprises How to Find the Right Solution for Effectively Connecting with Your

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems are a growing topic among small- and medium-sized enterprises entrepreneurs and solopreneurs and it is completely clear that CRM is a tool that businesses should have in place to manage sales processes. Teams of salespeople must have a system to run their daily activities and small businesses and solopreneurs must track their marketing effort a functioning structure for maintaining their contacts with prospects and clients to improve the effectiveness of their sales effort. CRM once only available to large corporations is now powerful technology for small and medium businesses. Small and medium businesses are now able to implement CRM solutions under a more cost-effective balance as an alternative to traditional tools like Salesforce Dynamics or Oracle. The reason for the success is mainly the simplicity of the new tools and solutions that have been developed for the management of sales processes. This book discusses how to implement a CRM from the perspective of the businessperson—not the more typical IT consultant or the technical staff. It benefits business development sales management and sales process control. Small business owners must understand why and how implementing a CRM will create value for their business—how it will focus on business development sales management and how sales leads develop into happy customers. Small business owners must first understand what a CRM system is how it works what its main functions are and how it serves to manage workflows in the company’s sales department. Generally entrepreneurs struggle to find the time to read and study complex and fully comprehensive books. This book provides direct operational guidelines to those who need easy-to-read information about how to use CRM effectively. Business professionals must be able to set up CRM systems and avoid mistakes and wasting time. This book provides an overview of what can be done with CRM and how it happens to empower businesspeople to find new customers and win business opportunities. This book discusses the logic of CRM in sales giving tips and explanations on why and what happens when CRM is implemented in a specific way. Essentially this book gives the entrepreneur the know-how behind CRM in sales in general terms supporting enhanced customer relationships. | Customer Relationship Management (CRM) for Medium and Small Enterprises How to Find the Right Solution for Effectively Connecting with Your

GBP 31.99
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Reliability Centered Maintenance – Reengineered Practical Optimization of the RCM Process with RCM-R

Reliability Centered Maintenance – Reengineered Practical Optimization of the RCM Process with RCM-R

Reliability Centered Maintenance – Reengineered: Practical Optimization of the RCM Process with RCM-R® provides an optimized approach to a well-established and highly successful method used for determining failure management policies for physical assets. It makes the original method that was developed to enhance flight safety far more useful in a broad range of industries where asset criticality ranges from high to low. RCM-R® is focused on the science of failures and what must be done to enable long-term sustainably reliable operations. If used correctly RCM-R® is the first step in delivering fewer breakdowns more productive capacity lower costs safer operations and improved environmental performance. Maintenance has a huge impact on most businesses whether its presence is felt or not. RCM-R® ensures that the right work is done to guarantee there are as few nasty surprises as possible that can harm the business in any way. RCM-R® was developed to leverage on RCM’s original success at delivering that effectiveness while addressing the concerns of the industrial market. RCM-R® addresses the RCM method and shortfalls in its application - It modifies the method to consider asset and even failure mode criticality so that rigor is applied only where it is truly needed. It removes (within reason) the sources of concern about RCM being overly rigorous and too labor intensive without compromising on its ability to deliver a tailored failure management program for physical assets sensitive to their operational context and application. RCM-R® also provides its practitioners with standard based guidance for determining meaningful failure modes and causes facilitating their analysis for optimum outcome. Includes extensive review of the well proven RCM method and what is needed to make it successful in the industrial environment Links important elements of the RCM method with relevant International Standards for risk management and failure management Enhances RCM with increased emphasis on statistical analysis bringing it squarely into the realm of Evidence Based Asset Management Includes extensive experience based advice on implementing and sustaining RCM based failure management programs | Reliability Centered Maintenance – Reengineered Practical Optimization of the RCM Process with RCM-R®

GBP 42.99
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The Kind Leader A Practical Guide to Eliminating Fear Creating Trust and Leading with Kindness

The Kind Leader A Practical Guide to Eliminating Fear Creating Trust and Leading with Kindness

Kindness and leadership aren’t often synonymous. Ask someone to describe good leadership to you and you will hear many adjectives used: authentic bold challenging charismatic decisive empowering fearless goal-oriented humble inspiring original passionate role-model strategic and transparent to name of a few. And though there are many more that come to mind kindness isn’t one of them. And here’s the problem with that. Leaders lead. And the way a leader leads – how they do what they do – influences those they lead. From the president of the country to the president of a company from middle managers right down to front-line supervisors what a leader models – how they think speak and act – influences the people they lead. Leaders who think speak and act unkindly give legitimacy and permission to those they lead to think speak and act in exactly the same unkind ways. Today in a world where a leaders’ words and actions travel quickly through social media channels such as Twitter their influence – unkind or kind – is amplified through repeated views and sharing. In an increasingly fragmented polarized and divided world we need leaders who will bring people together not divide them. Leaders who value and model cooperation and collaboration over competition. And who model ways to think kindly speak kindly and act kindly. We need kindness to become synonymous with good leadership. So that when someone is asked to describe the traits of a good leader kindness will be the first word that comes to mind. Essentially the purpose of this book is to teach leaders how to lead with kindness so they can influence the people they lead to create kinder workplaces organizations and the world. Each chapter contains a mixture of theory case studies and reflections from leaders and the people they influence. As well the book follows the fictional stories of Kay’La Janson and Kevin Landrell as they become leaders in a failing organization that is ultimately turned around through kind leadership. Between chapters there are a series of practical exercises based on concepts presented in the previous chapter with space to record outcomes and reflections on the practice process. This book gives you a deep theoretical understanding of the importance of leading with kindness and also provides practical exercises for you to use to turn theory into practice. Because change means doing things differently and because we only really learn by doing to create kinder organizations kinder communities and a kinder world leaders must be able to begin practicing kindness right away. By the time you finish the book you will feel confident in your ability to lead with kindness and also to address organizational problems at work at home and in the community with kindness. | The Kind Leader A Practical Guide to Eliminating Fear Creating Trust and Leading with Kindness

GBP 28.99
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The Controller as Lean Leader A Novel on Changing Behavior with a Lean Cost Management System

The Controller as Lean Leader A Novel on Changing Behavior with a Lean Cost Management System

Traditional accounting systems have become inadequate for today‘s increasingly competitive global manufacturing environment. They are too complex and too focused on past performance. As manufacturing techniques change and become less labor intensive accounting methods must also evolve. Regardless of what you call it Lean accounting is a management accounting system that should be part of every worker‘s daily activities. The Controller as Lean Leader: A Novel on Changing Behavior with a Lean Cost Management System delineates the differences between cost accounting and cost management. It uses a story format to present a compilation of experiences; some good some bad and some humorous. The story follows a fictional manufacturing entity embarking on a Lean change management journey for the second time having failed at its first attempt at Lean implementation a few years earlier. As the story progresses readers gain an understanding of what the company will do differently this time around to ensure it doesn‘t slip backward again as the transformation unfolds. Illustrates the various approaches to Lean implementation Explains Target Costing and describes how to use it to get your budget right the first time around Examines the concept of systems and the importance of defining values in your business Describes what the purpose of a Lean Human Resources (HR) system should be Introduces with visuals the little-known importance of the timing of the implementation and integration of the four integral parts of the Lean Cost Management System with the five Lean principles The main character the Lean Controller presents her ideas with visuals throughout the book. Discussions between the Lean controller and employees at various levels of the organization illustrate valuable lessons. The many faces of the Lean Controller as expressed thro | The Controller as Lean Leader A Novel on Changing Behavior with a Lean Cost Management System

GBP 170.00
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Harnessing Digital Disruption How Companies Win with Design Thinking Agile and Lean Startup

Harnessing Digital Disruption How Companies Win with Design Thinking Agile and Lean Startup

Our world has changed probably for good. Until now the shift from brick-and-mortar to the smartphone has been about service cost and convenience. Now it's also a matter of public health. How do we win this uncertain new game? How do we prosper in a digital world? In a cool readable style Harnessing Digital Disruption: How Companies Win with Design Thinking Agile and Lean Startup tells the story of a major multi-national organization facing digital disruption and looming irrelevance. In a compelling novel format the book demonstrates how to harness the power of digital technology methods and thinking on the path to revival and prosperity. It illustrates the situations characters and blockers you’ll likely face as you progress through your journey. The setting is Singapore and the heady world of international banking but the prescription methods and lessons apply equally to manufacturers utilities hospitals insurers and government agencies. You will learn how to: · Develop your Digital Transformation strategy and Innovation Portfolio· Reform customer journeys launch new digital offerings and validate new beta businesses· Develop senior leader digital literacy and understanding of growth leadership· De-risk your journey using a proven overall approach based on proven principles· Cultivate a network of pragmatic entrepreneurs practicing a structured scalable innovation process | Harnessing Digital Disruption How Companies Win with Design Thinking Agile and Lean Startup

GBP 28.99
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Building a Global Learning Organization Using TWI to Succeed with Strategic Workforce Expansion in the LEGO Group

Building a Global Learning Organization Using TWI to Succeed with Strategic Workforce Expansion in the LEGO Group

Building a Global Learning Organization: Using TWI to Succeed with Strategic Workforce Expansion in the LEGO Group describes how a multinational company developed a global structure for learning based on the TWI (Training Within Industry) program to create and sustain standardized work across multiple language and cultural platforms. In this book Shingo Prize-winning author Patrick Graupp collaborates with two practitioners who performed the planning and implementation of the LEGO Group‘s worldwide Learning Organization. The book outlines the organizational and planning models used by the LEGO Group to create the internal ability to give and receive tacit skills and knowledge. Describing how and why TWI is used as the foundation for success in knowledge transfer across diverse languages and cultures it provides step-by-step guidance on how to establish a solid organizational foundation for your own Learning Organization. Providing expert insight into the work of culture change the book explains how to work with people to create motivation for moving to a new system of learning. It details the critical elements that made the implementation at the LEGO Group a success identifies the stumbling blocks they encountered along the way and explains how they were overcome. Case studies describe in detail what these efforts looked and felt like in actual application. The TWI program has long been recognized for its ability to generate results. After reading this book you will gain valuable insight into how your organization whether large or small national or international can integrate this timeless tool into your operating structure and your daily culture. | Building a Global Learning Organization Using TWI to Succeed with Strategic Workforce Expansion in the LEGO Group

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Lean Development and Innovation Hitting the Market with the Right Products at the Right Time

Lean Development and Innovation Hitting the Market with the Right Products at the Right Time

Using Toyota's principles for product and process development this book focuses the implementation of the Lean system during the past 10 years in dozens of corporations across various industries. The book highlights all steps on the journey from common trouble area to remarkable results. As it is written by a manager for other managers it contains real work discoveries and insights. The author provides case studies from many different fields of application. The reader gains insight on US and European companies that successfully streamlined their innovation and product-development processes. These companies have overcome difficult periods and major challenges thanks to the ability to innovate with new Lean methodologies and above all a new workplace culture and mindset. The goal of this book is to help managers successfully apply Lean principles in the innovation and development area of their company while benefitting from the author's lessons learned during his many years of capitalized experience. This book provides a comprehensive framework that supports step-by-step the successful application of Lean principles in the innovation and development areas of the company. Readers learn how to drastically reduce the time required to develop products and discover and eliminate hidden costs and critical waste while increasing value for customers. | Lean Development and Innovation Hitting the Market with the Right Products at the Right Time

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The Definitive Guide to Emergency Department Operational Improvement Employing Lean Principles with Current ED Best Practices to Create the

The Definitive Guide to Emergency Department Operational Improvement Employing Lean Principles with Current ED Best Practices to Create the

This revised and updated book explores the academics behind managing the complex service environment that is the Emergency Department (ED) by combining applied management science and practical experiences to create a model of how to improve operations. This book offers a presentation of Lean tools used in the ED along with basic and advanced flow principles. It then shows how these concepts are applied and why they work supported by case studies in which Lean principles were used to transform an underperforming ED into a world-class operation. After reviewing best practices the authors explain how to achieve excellence by discussing the elements of creating a culture of change. | The Definitive Guide to Emergency Department Operational Improvement Employing Lean Principles with Current ED Best Practices to Create the

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