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The Basics of Idea Generation

The Basics of Idea Generation

Continuous generation and implementation of ideas is critical to creating an environment that helps foster the development of improvement techniques. The Basics of Idea Generation provides a cost-effective method that can help inspire employees to consistently identify and implement new ideas using a proven five-step process. The process starts by creating an opportunity statement. From there the method then has one collect raw materials before holding an idea workout and then evaluating the idea. Implementation is the final step. The author also explains the 20 tools that help complete each step along with solutions to overcoming the barriers to creativity.

GBP 170.00
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Lean Transformations for Small and Medium Enterprises Lessons Learned from Italian Businesses

Lean Transformations for Small and Medium Enterprises Lessons Learned from Italian Businesses

Lean Transformations for Small and Medium Enterprises: Lessons Learned from Italian Businesses summarizes two decades of research teaching and practice on lean thinking. Based on quantitative analysis of 100 cases of Lean transformations and 20 in-depth case studies of successfully transformed SMEs it explains how to undertake lean transformations that lead to operational and financial performance improvement and uses the Lean Transformation Framework -conceptualized by John Shook at the Lean Enterprise Institute as a practical approach to design and de-risk the transformation process. SMEs leaders wishing to undertake and sustain a lean transformation must: Make a serious and lasting commitment to transform avoiding the temptation to change course of action; Choose accurately the value streams that require improvement as defined by strategy deployment; Build capabilities to sustain the transformation; Lead by example by going to gemba and creating a culture of respect for people that goes beyond the visible devices and artifacts of Lean tools. | Lean Transformations for Small and Medium Enterprises Lessons Learned from Italian Businesses

GBP 170.00
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The BASICS Lean Implementation Model Lean Tools to Drive Daily Innovation and Increased Profitability

The BASICS Lean Implementation Model Lean Tools to Drive Daily Innovation and Increased Profitability

In 2004 Charlie Protzman created The BASICS Lean Implementation Model which covers the full spectrum of what is needed to be effective and successful at implementing a Lean System. The reader is taken through a step by step approach developed over the last 15 years in the use and understanding of Lean tools principles and processes. The authors break down Lean concepts to their simplest terms to make everything as clear as possible for Lean practitioners. You will learn an integrated structured problem-solving approach identified by the acronym BASICS (Baseline Analyze Suggest Solutions Implement Check and Sustain). This methodology is combined with a proven business strategy to help ensure a successful and sustainable transformation of any organization. The BASICS approach produces real bottom line savings with 20% to 50% or more increases in productivity when compared to pure batching environments. As those who have read the book will tell you this is not a theory book… but rather a book you can return to over and over again for reference throughout your Lean journey. | The BASICS Lean™ Implementation Model Lean Tools to Drive Daily Innovation and Increased Profitability

GBP 48.99
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The Remote Work Handbook The Definitive Guide for Operationalizing Remote Work as a Competitive Business Strategy

The Remote Work Handbook The Definitive Guide for Operationalizing Remote Work as a Competitive Business Strategy

The Remote Work Handbook: The Definitive Guide for Operationalizing Remote Work as a Competitive Business Strategy is for readers seeking to leverage the business benefits of a flexible remote workforce. It is a practical guide for building and implementing remote work at any size organization. C-suite executives operation leaders business owners or entrepreneurs who recognize the workplace is changing can use it to re-tool their operations for a strategic business advantage. Mari Anne Snow the author is a recognized remote work expert with over 20 years of experience leading remote teams and has re-written the rules of leadership to unlock the potential in remote and distributed teams. In this book she shares all her secrets. The book explores the untapped potential of remote teams and lays out the business case for adopting a new flexible workplace model to build organizational resilience and a competitive edge. It takes the reader through the step-by-step process of constructing a remote work operating model staging an implementation then institutionalizing and sustaining the change. It includes down-to-earth professional and personal stories that alert the reader to the top priorities and operational realities they will face as they craft their own implementation plan for operationalizing remote work at their company. | The Remote Work Handbook The Definitive Guide for Operationalizing Remote Work as a Competitive Business Strategy

GBP 28.99
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Innovative Lean Development How to Create Implement and Maintain a Learning Culture Using Fast Learning Cycles

Innovative Lean Development How to Create Implement and Maintain a Learning Culture Using Fast Learning Cycles

Innovation is the engine that drives much of what is called success in business and industry. Incorporating the fundamental principles of lean manufacturing and the rules and behaviors of structured innovation into the development process innovative lean development unleashes the creativity of everyone involved in developing new products services or processes; speeds the process; and leads to higher quality. Written by two experts who have successfully made the road by walking it for more than 20 years Innovative Lean Development: How to Create Implement and Maintain a Learning Culture Using Fast Learning Cycles focuses on six key areas necessary for dramatic development. It shows you how to 1. Identify and fill user gaps 2. Use multiple learning cycles 3. Stabilize the development process 4. Capture knowledge 5. Use rapid prototyping 6. Apply lean management principles including learning cycles and visual boards Applying these principles the authors have helped development teams cut development time in half and increase speed to market while delivering award-winning quality solutions. In this manual they share those examples while providing a road map that all companies can follow to reach a lean development culture one where creative thinking and practice converge in ways that lead to innovation improvement and success. | Innovative Lean Development How to Create Implement and Maintain a Learning Culture Using Fast Learning Cycles

GBP 170.00
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Redefining Innovation Embracing the 80-80 Rule to Ignite Growth in the Biopharmaceutical Industry

Redefining Innovation Embracing the 80-80 Rule to Ignite Growth in the Biopharmaceutical Industry

Most people marvel at the level of innovation demonstrated by the biopharmaceutical industry in bringing new products to the market – especially in the past 20 years. However there is a crisis looming in the industry that should be a concern to all of us who take for granted the constant pace at which new treatments and increasingly cures have emerged from the laboratories of current sector incumbents. In the book we examine the evolution of the biopharmaceutical industry to understand how it became what we term a unicorn industry with a unique US-centered business model that has led to multiple blockbuster products (aka unicorns) year after year. We explore how past success has created perceived barriers to innovation diversification beyond the chemical or biological-based biopharmaceutical product and highlight the warning signs of the industry’s decline. We define a potential pathway for transforming the industry’s business model by broadening the definition sources and enablers of innovation beyond the traditional biopharmaceutical product. We introduce and advocate for the 80-80 Rule - Being 80% confident that you will only be 80% right the first time should feel normal. The 80-80 Rule is a theme that emphasizes speed and willingness to embrace uncertainty and overcome internal barriers to change. It sets the standard for redefining innovation as a platform to reignite growth of the biopharmaceutical industry. | Redefining Innovation Embracing the 80-80 Rule to Ignite Growth in the Biopharmaceutical Industry

GBP 31.99
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Lean Human Resources Redesigning HR Processes for a Culture of Continuous Improvement Second Edition

Lean Human Resources Redesigning HR Processes for a Culture of Continuous Improvement Second Edition

Lean Human Resources addresses a critical issue facing organisations undertaking lean transformation or attempting to create a lean culture of continuous improvement. People are the single biggest factor necessary to ensure success but it is common for the role of the HR department to be overlooked. Cheryl M. Jekiel who has been implementing Lean initiatives out of HR offices for more than 20 years defines the people-related approaches and practices required for success. She explains how the HR function must work hand-in-hand with senior leaders to alter the cultural dynamic that keeps employees from leveraging their peak abilities analysing why so many companies allow this sort of waste to exist and how traditional HR departments have not been especially effective in combating waste. The book provides continuous improvement professionals executives and business owners with the means to maximize employee potential by showing them how to increase the improvement power of their HR departments. It also helps them understand what lean transformations can achieve with the correct investment of time funds resources and leadership approach. It is also the perfect introduction to lean for those working in HR explaining the role they should take to support lean implementation and help their colleagues achieve their full potential. Much has been learned since the first edition published five years ago based on the hundreds of conversations the author has had about Lean HR with people from all over the world. This new edition brings Lean Human Resources right up-to-date. | Lean Human Resources Redesigning HR Processes for a Culture of Continuous Improvement Second Edition

GBP 31.99
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Optimizing Emergency Department Throughput Operations Management Solutions for Health Care Decision Makers

Optimizing Emergency Department Throughput Operations Management Solutions for Health Care Decision Makers

Across the country ambulances are turned away from emergency departments (EDs) and patients are waiting hours and sometimes days to be admitted to a hospital room. Hospitals are finding it hard to get specialist physicians to come to treat emergency patients. Our EDs demand a new way of thinking. They are not at a tipping point; they are at a breaking point. Under current loads and trends they are going to begin to break and these breakdowns will be painful and ultimately dangerous to society. Recognizing that the ideal in health care is presently beyond our immediate grasp this book instead focuses on providing health care leaders with the tools they can employ to optimize the performance of EDs and thereby improve service to patients employees and communities. Written by 20 of the most progressive and successful health care reformers in the country the approaches described can be utilized to quantify improvements enhance predictability of workflow and improve staff scheduling. The data derived using these techniques can serve as powerful evidence in support of change. While a common discussion among ED professionals is the perception that many patients are not really emergency patients and could be treated in another setting at another time that argument is not germane until we as a nation elect to reform the way we chose to deliver healthcare to the underserviced. In the meantime this book provides invalauable information to help individual hospitals to retool their ED‘s. It offers new approaches that think outside of the box for all stakeholders. It also provides the statistical evidence that administrators need to make their cases for changes and added resources. It will help you forecast the demand for services and give your center an approach that will allow the ED to become a source of income rather than one that continues to hemorrhage needed limited health care funding. | Optimizing Emergency Department Throughput Operations Management Solutions for Health Care Decision Makers

GBP 170.00
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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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Restorative Just Culture in Practice Implementation and Evaluation

Restorative Just Culture in Practice Implementation and Evaluation

A restorative just culture has become a core aspiration for many organizations in healthcare and elsewhere. Whereas ‘just culture’ is the topic of some residual conceptual debate (e. g. retributive policies organized around rules violations and consequences are ‘sold’ as just culture) the evidence base on and business case for restorative practice has been growing and is generating increasing global interest. In the wake of an incident restorative practices ask who are impacted what their needs are and whose obligation it is to meet those needs. Restorative practices aim to involve participants from the entire community in the resolution and repair of harms. This book offers organization leaders and stakeholders a practical guide to the experiences of implementingand evaluating restorative practices and creating a sustainable just restorative culture. It contains the perspectives from leaders theoreticians regulators employees and patient representatives. To the best of our knowledge there is no book on the market today that can function as a guide for the implementation and evaluation of a just and learning culture and restorative practices. This book is intended to fill this gap. This book will provide among other topics an overview of restorative just culture principles and practices; a balanced treatment of the various implementations and evaluations of just culture and restorative processes; a guide for leaders about what to stop start increase and decrease in their own organizations; and an attentive to philosophical and historical traditions and assumptions that underlie just culture and restorative approaches. The interest in ‘just culture’ not just in healthcare but also in other fields of safety-critical practice has been steadily growing over the past decade. It is a trending area. In this it has become clear that 20-year-old retributive models not only hinder the acceleration of performance and organizational improvement but have also in some cases become a blunt HR instrument an expression of power over justice and a way to stifle honesty reporting and learning. What is new in this then is the restorative angle on just culture as it has been developed over the last few years and now is practised and applied to HR suicide prevention healthcareimprovement regulatory innovations and other areas. | Restorative Just Culture in Practice Implementation and Evaluation

GBP 31.99
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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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Lean Healthcare Systems Engineering for Clinical Environments A Step-by-Step Process for Managing Workflow and Care Improvement Projects

Lean Healthcare Systems Engineering for Clinical Environments A Step-by-Step Process for Managing Workflow and Care Improvement Projects

It has been almost 20 years since the Institute of Medicine released the seminal report titled Crossing the Quality Chasm. In it the IoM identified six domains of care quality (safe timely effective efficient equitable and patient-centric) and noted a huge gap between the current state and the desired state. Although this report received a great deal of attention sadly there has been little progress in these areas. In the U. S. healthcare still has huge disparities is inefficient and is fragmented with delays in care that are often unsafe. Most U. S. citizens are expected to suffer from a diagnostic error sometime during their lifetime not receive a large fraction of recommended care and pay for one of the most expensive systems in the world. Much has been written about quality improvement over the years but many prominent quality and safety experts. Yet progress has been slow. Some have called on the healthcare professions to look outside of healthcare to other industries using examples in nuclear power and airlines for safety the hotel and entertainment industry for a ‘customer’ focus and the automotive industry particularly Toyota for efficiency (Lean). This book by Dr. Oppenheim on lean healthcare systems engineering (LHSE) is a fresh approach that brings forth concepts that systems engineers have used in huge national defense projects. What’s unique in this book is that these powerful system engineering tools are modified to be able to address smaller sized healthcare problems that still involve similar problems in fragmentation and poor communication and coordination. This book is an invaluable reference for a new powerful process named Lean Healthcare Systems Engineering (LHSE) for managing workflow and care improvement projects in all clinical environments. The book applies to ambulatory clinics and hospitals of all types including operating rooms emergency departments and ancillary departments clinical and imaging laboratories pharmacies and population health. The book presents a generic rigorous but not mathematical step-by-step process of integrated healthcare systems engineering and Lean. The book also contains the first major product created with the LHSE process namely tabularized summaries of representative projects in healthcare delivery applications called Lean Enablers for Healthcare Projects. Each full-page enabler table lists the challenges and wastes powerful improvement goals risks and expected benefits and some useful descriptions of the healthcare system of interest. The book provides user-friendly solutions to major problems in healthcare delivery operations in all clinical environments addressing fragmentation wastes wrong incentives ad-hoc and stove-piped management lack of optimized processes hierarchy gradient lack of systems thinking “blaming and shaming culture” burnout of providers and many others. | Lean Healthcare Systems Engineering for Clinical Environments A Step-by-Step Process for Managing Workflow and Care Improvement Projects

GBP 39.99
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GPS for Success Skills Strategies and Secrets of Superachievers

GPS for Success Skills Strategies and Secrets of Superachievers

Next to food and clothing achieving personal and professional success is rated at the very top of the hierarchical order of human needs. Everybody wants to be somebody! In this ultimate success book that includes timeless information for generations to come the author has meticulously chronicled proven skills strategies and secrets that if regularly followed will empower the reader to live the life that they imagine. Just like your car’s or phone’s GPS these life navigation skills can get you from where you are to where you want to go in your career. In addition critically important knowledge and abilities including job interviewing must-know people skills writing and public speaking are covered. In this book the author has scoured the world’s literature on these topics and interviewed highly successful people to provide one-stop shopping regarding the most proven and practical recommendations for future career success. He has also peppered the text with personal experiences and motivational/inspirational success stories as well as testimonials/sage advice/quotes from the world’s most successful people -past and present. The key objectives of this book are to: Highlight the foundational factors underlying future career success: love what you do; realize that your behaviors largely determine your luck in life; emphasize that highly successful people take 100% responsibility for their actions and destiny; and that the secret to success involves the selfless serving of others. The rewards return—through a boomerang effect. Provide specific examples and inspirational stories highlighting 10 critical behavioral skills for success. These include: look for the good in people and situations; how to activate the law of attraction; establish goals in writing (if it’s not on paper it’s vapor); take action (#1 success characteristic); know that persistence pays; ask for things you want; enhance your speaking writing and interviewing skills; why it’s important to work with and learn from people you want to emulate; the essence of superb people skills (e. g. integrity making others feel important); and to regularly apply the law of sow and reap. Detail complementary approaches tactics and perspectives that can help you achieve your breakthrough (major) life goals. These include: time management skills and the 80/20 rule; looking for greener pastures; showcasing your talents (visibility → opportunities); committing to never-ending improvements in performance service (or products); embracing discipline/focus/sacrifice; routinely exceeding people’s expectations; striving for greater rewards; and seeing an ocean of opportunities before you. In aggregate these yield BIG rewards in life. Provide a potpourri of related topics including unlooked-for opportunities; leadership and bringing out the best in those around you; avoiding overcautiousness; volunteering (raising your hand); reframing future commitments; the power (and magic) of an unexpected thank you note; and the disproportionate dividends and good karma that result from giving back and mentoring others. | GPS for Success Skills Strategies and Secrets of Superachievers

GBP 24.99
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Lean Higher Education Increasing the Value and Performance of University Processes Second Edition

Lean Higher Education Increasing the Value and Performance of University Processes Second Edition

In an environment of diminishing resources growing enrollment and increasing expectations of accountability Lean Higher Education: Increasing the Value and Performance of University Processes Second Edition provides the understanding and the tools required to return education to the consumers it was designed to serve – the students. It supplies a unifying framework for implementing and sustaining a Lean Higher Education (LHE) transformation at any institution regardless of size or mission. Using straightforward language relevant examples and step-by-step guidelines for introducing Lean interventions this authoritative resource explains how to involve stakeholders in the delivery of quality every step of the way. The author details a flexible series of steps to help ensure stakeholders understand all critical work processes. He presents a wealth of empirical evidence that highlights successful applications of Lean concepts at major universities and provides proven methods for uncovering and eliminating activities that overburden staff yet contribute little or no added value to stakeholders. Complete with standardized methods for correctly diagnosing workplace problems and implementing appropriate solutions this valuable reference arms you with the understanding and the tools to effectively balance the needs of all stakeholders. By implementing the Lean practices covered in these pages your school will be better positioned to provide higher quality education at reduced costs with efficient processes that instill pride maximize value and respect the long-term interests of your students faculty and staff. This second edition contains a substantial update with expanded material and reflects the significant growth of LHE practices in colleges and universities worldwide. Because of advances in best practices as well as some modest research-based evidence this second edition includes many enhancements that provide particular value to LHE practitioners and higher education (HE) leaders. Since the initial publication of Lean Higher Education in 2010 the challenges of cost and affordability competition for students and faculty and calls for efficiency and accountability have only continued to grow requiring colleges and universities to pursue more radical and transformative change to ensure their success. This new edition provides a model for change based on more than 50 years of application in business and industry and almost 20 years in HE. It provides the information and evidence demanded by HE leadership to understand and embrace LHE as well as best practices processes and tools for implementing LHE in targeted areas or institution-wide. This book provides a conceptual framework for redesigning any university process such as admitting students paying a bill hiring faculty or processing a donor gift in a way that delights the beneficiary of that process respects the employees who support the process and reduce the cost of the process. A free companion guide to this book is available here: https://cabaa139-7c62-47ae-af03-e18f51efab1c. filesusr. com/ugd/f5359d_a064ca39f666408f851ffd282eb9a0a7. pdf The goal of this companion guide is to help you get the most out of your reading of Lean Higher Education. The guide is designed to support your deeper understanding and application of LHE whether you are reading the book (a) from cover to cover or select chapters; (b) reading it alone as a member of a workplace reading group or as a student in a classroom; (c) facilitating discussions of the chapters in the book; or (d) seeking guidance as you begin your own personal Lean Higher Education journey. | Lean Higher Education Increasing the Value and Performance of University Processes Second Edition

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