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Author : Jacqueline D. Graham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (223 download)
Download or read book Practical Tools for Continuous Improvement written by Jacqueline D. Graham and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gerhard J. Plenert
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN 13 : 0071767193
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (717 download)
Download or read book Strategic Continuous Process Improvement written by Gerhard J. Plenert and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2011-11-29 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proven methods for achieving continuous process improvement Resolve "quality chaos" by creating a link between quality problems and their optimal solutions. With a focus on building an integrated quality environment, Strategic Continuous Process Improvement: Which Quality Tools to Use and When to Use Them begins by discussing the different types of continuous process improvement (CPI) systems available. This practical guide explains how to implement a strategic performance model and select and integrate appropriate metrics to achieve desired results. Tested techniques for executing an improvement process are included along with real-world examples. The book concludes with a plan to help you sustain an ongoing culture of continuous quality improvement in your organization. Find out how to: Identify CPI opportunities Evaluate various CPI options using comparative benchmarks Understand the characteristics of each quality option Map CPI characteristics against quality problems Select the appropriate tool to fit a specific quality problem Recognize the role of governance and performance reviews Cascade and communicate CPI throughout your organization Move the needle toward successful process optimization
Author : Richard Y. Chang
Publisher : Pfeiffer
ISBN 13 : 9780787950835
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (58 download)
Download or read book Continuous Process Improvement written by Richard Y. Chang and published by Pfeiffer. This book was released on 1999-04-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An easy-to-apply illustration of a basic process-improvement methodology covering the continuous cycle of process improvement, analyzing work processes, determining customer needs and more.
Author : Gerald J. Langley
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470549033
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (75 download)
Download or read book The Improvement Guide written by Gerald J. Langley and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-06-03 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of this bestselling guide offers an integrated approach to process improvement that delivers quick and substantial results in quality and productivity in diverse settings. The authors explore their Model for Improvement that worked with international improvement efforts at multinational companies as well as in different industries such as healthcare and public agencies. This edition includes new information that shows how to accelerate improvement by spreading changes across multiple sites. The book presents a practical tool kit of ideas, examples, and applications.
Author : Elizabeth A. Cudney
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1315352079
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (153 download)
Download or read book Design for Six Sigma written by Elizabeth A. Cudney and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-08-05 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) is an innovative continuous improvement methodology for designing new products, processes, and services by integrating Lean and Six Sigma principles. This book will explain how the DFSS methodology is used to design robust products, processes, or services right the first time by using the voice of the customer to meet Six Sigma performance. Robust designs are insensitive to variation and provide consistent performance in the hands of the customer. DFSS is used to meet customer needs by understanding their requirements, considering current process capability, identifying and reducing gaps, and verifying predictions to develop a robust design. This book offers: Methodology on how to implement DFSS in various industries Practical examples of the use of DFSS Sustainability utilizing Lean Six Sigma techniques and Lean product development Innovative designs using DFSS with concept generation Case studies for implementing the DFSS methodology Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) enables organizations to develop innovative designs. In order to redesign an existing process or design a new process, the success is dependent on a rigorous process and methodology. DFSS ensures that there are minimal defects in the introduction of new products, processes, or services. The authors have compiled all of the tools necessary for implementation of a practical approach though innovation.
Author : Jiju Antony
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787699293
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (876 download)
Download or read book Lean Six Sigma in Higher Education written by Jiju Antony and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2020-11-30 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book illustrates the integration of both Lean and Six Sigma as a process excellence methodology which can be utilized in Higher Education environments for achieving and sustaining world class efficiency and effectiveness. It showcases various studies carried out by leading research scholars, academics and practitioners.
Author : Aristide van Aartsengel
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642359019
Total Pages : 653 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (423 download)
Download or read book Handbook on Continuous Improvement Transformation written by Aristide van Aartsengel and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-11 with total page 653 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook provides a comprehensive and detailed framework for the implementation of "Continuous Improvement" and Lean Six Sigma in a professional project management environment. For this purpose the book brings together Lean Six Sigma and the PMBOK standard for project management. It provides an integrated approach, which can be used for both transactional and manufacturing businesses to better define ways to reduce costs, enhance processes ,and achieve faster implementation and new product or service development. The reader is guided carefully and reliably through the detailed procedures introduced in this book using a comprehensive, conceptual and practical well-balanced approach.
Author : Karen Martin
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1439827826
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (398 download)
Download or read book The Kaizen Event Planner written by Karen Martin and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-07-27 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kaizen Events are an effective way to train organizations to break unproductive habits and adopt a continuous improvement philosophy while, at the same time, achieve breakthrough performance-level results. Through Kaizen Events, cross-functional teams learn how to make improvements in a methodological way. They learn how to quickly study a process,
Author : Nancy Tague
Publisher : Quality Press
ISBN 13 : 1953079008
Total Pages : 625 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (53 download)
Download or read book The Quality Toolbox written by Nancy Tague and published by Quality Press. This book was released on 2004-07-14 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Quality Toolbox is a comprehensive reference to a variety of methods and techniques: those most commonly used for quality improvement, many less commonly used, and some created by the author and not available elsewhere. The reader will find the widely used seven basic quality control tools (for example, fishbone diagram, and Pareto chart) as well as the newer management and planning tools. Tools are included for generating and organizing ideas, evaluating ideas, analyzing processes, determining root causes, planning, and basic data-handling and statistics. The book is written and organized to be as simple as possible to use so that anyone can find and learn new tools without a teacher. Above all, this is an instruction book. The reader can learn new tools or, for familiar tools, discover new variations or applications. It also is a reference book, organized so that a half-remembered tool can be found and reviewed easily, and the right tool to solve a particular problem or achieve a specific goal can be quickly identified. With this book close at hand, a quality improvement team becomes capable of more efficient and effective work with less assistance from a trained quality consultant. Quality and training professionals also will find it a handy reference and quick way to expand their repertoire of tools, techniques, applications, and tricks. For this second edition, Tague added 34 tools and 18 variations. The "Quality Improvement Stories" chapter has been expanded to include detailed case studies from three Baldrige Award winners. An entirely new chapter, "Mega-Tools: Quality Management Systems," puts the tools into two contexts: the historical evolution of quality improvement and the quality management systems within which the tools are used. This edition liberally uses icons with each tool description to reinforce for the reader what kind of tool it is and where it is used within the improvement process.
Author : Anthony S. Bryk
Publisher : Harvard Education Press
ISBN 13 : 161250793X
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (125 download)
Download or read book Learning to Improve written by Anthony S. Bryk and published by Harvard Education Press. This book was released on 2015-03-01 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a field, education has largely failed to learn from experience. Time after time, promising education reforms fall short of their goals and are abandoned as other promising ideas take their place. In Learning to Improve, the authors argue for a new approach. Rather than “implementing fast and learning slow,” they believe educators should adopt a more rigorous approach to improvement that allows the field to “learn fast to implement well.” Using ideas borrowed from improvement science, the authors show how a process of disciplined inquiry can be combined with the use of networks to identify, adapt, and successfully scale up promising interventions in education. Organized around six core principles, the book shows how “networked improvement communities” can bring together researchers and practitioners to accelerate learning in key areas of education. Examples include efforts to address the high rates of failure among students in community college remedial math courses and strategies for improving feedback to novice teachers. Learning to Improve offers a new paradigm for research and development in education that promises to be a powerful driver of improvement for the nation’s schools and colleges.
Author : Joan C. Dessinger
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0787977063
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (879 download)
Download or read book Confirmative Evaluation written by Joan C. Dessinger and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2004-05-03 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This much-needed book offers trainers, consultants, evaluation professionals, and human resource executives and practitioners a hands-on resource for understanding and applying the proven principles of confirmative evaluation. Confirmative evaluation is a marriage of evaluation and continuous improvement. Unlike other types of evaluation—which are used during the design of a learning program or applied immediately after conducting a program—confirmative evaluation follows several months after the program is implemented. It tests the endurance of outcomes, the return on investment, and establishes the effectivenss, efficiency, impact, and value of the training over time.
Author : Rebecca Goldberg
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1482246805
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (822 download)
Download or read book The Lean Anthology written by Rebecca Goldberg and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-07-27 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lean Anthology: A Practical Primer in Continual Improvement presents operations management case studies that illustrate a Lean process improvement journey. Ideal for non-engineers, adult learners, and corporate or business education settings, this book can help you and your organization understand and apply Lean practices as part of a plan for
Author : Mark Jay Kiemele
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781880156063
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (56 download)
Download or read book Basic Statistics written by Mark Jay Kiemele and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joakim Ahlstrom
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN 13 : 0071835245
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (718 download)
Download or read book How to Succeed with Continuous Improvement: A Primer for Becoming the Best in the World written by Joakim Ahlstrom and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2014-11-21 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your organizational transformation begins here! Comprehensive, detailed, and easy to read and understand, How to Succeed with Continuous Improvement takes you through a real-life case study of one organization’s journey to a world-class continuous improvement process. Joakim Ahlstrom—one of the world’s most respected continuous improvement experts—serves as your coach. He first helps you decide whether you want to embark on the continuous improvement journey and takes you through the entire process step by step, all the way through generating remarkable business results with his unique methods. In each chapter, Ahlstrom describes a specific stage of the transformation story and provides a clear analysis of each one to help you apply his methods in your own company. In no time you’ll grasp all the concepts you need to know. How to Succeed with Continuous Improvement covers it all, including: How to shift mindsets and behaviors using the often neglected practice of coaching Common pitfalls to help you plan out how you will apply the principles and practices Using “six-legged spiders” and “fishy” diagrams to achieve measurable results Ways to avoid “Watermelon” key performance indicators that often mask the truth Ahlstrom explains rational behind all the methods in the book—the results they produce, and why—and offers practical advice on how to get full input from everyone involved. Ahlstrom concludes the book with a chapter offering a current-state analysis tool and a simple template to apply in your company. If you’re seeking to design and launch a continuous improvement program, How to Succeed with Continuous Improvement is the first book you should turn to—and it’s the last one you’ll ever need! Praise for How to Succeed with Continuous Improvement “Using a story he lived through, Joakim vividly brings to life for us the transformation from a mediocre top-down organization depending on a few internal experts for its survival to a high performance organization of empowered employees engaged in continuous improvement.” –Jeffrey Liker, bestselling author of The Toyota Way “This succinct book packs an enormous amount of wisdom and experience into an entertaining fast read. It gives a clear roadmap for any leader to implement a strong continuous improvement program in his or her unit. Highly recommended!” –Alan G. Robinson, Professor of Management, University of Massachusetts and author of Corporate Creativity and Ideas are Free “The most valuable and lean book I have read about lean.” –Göran Martinsson, Continuous improvement Manager, IKEA “Well written, easy to read, filled with excellent examples . . . If you only plan to read one change management book this year, this is the book you should read.” –Dag Näslund, Professor of Management, University of North Florida “An amazing guide in lean principles, with simple tools for simplifications.” –Susanne Schipper, Continuous Improvement Coach, AstraZeneca “Simplicity is the essence of this great book. Ahlstrom delivers a straightforward and simple approach to support your work with continuous improvement.” –Ronny Ålund, Productivity Management, Volvo CE “This book is a little gem with large content! Unlike many other books on the subject, you only have to read it once because it sticks.” –Johan Valett, Vice President Haldex Way, Haldex “I recommend How to Succeed with Continuous Improvement to anyone who needs a fast and inspiring introduction to continuous improvement.” –Janne Lundberg, Global Lean Innovation Manager, Assa Abloy
Author : Mike Rother
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN 13 : 0071639853
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (716 download)
Download or read book Toyota Kata: Managing People for Improvement, Adaptiveness and Superior Results written by Mike Rother and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2009-09-04 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Toyota Kata gets to the essence of how Toyota manages continuous improvement and human ingenuity, through its improvement kata and coaching kata. Mike Rother explains why typical companies fail to understand the core of lean and make limited progress—and what it takes to make it a real part of your culture." —Jeffrey K. Liker, bestselling author of The Toyota Way "[Toyota Kata is] one of the stepping stones that will usher in a new era of management thinking." —The Systems Thinker "How any organization in any industry can progress from old-fashioned management by results to a strikingly different and better way." —James P. Womack, Chairman and Founder, Lean Enterprise Institute "Practicing the improvement kata is perhaps the best way we've found so far for actualizing PDCA in an organization." —John Shook, Chairman and CEO, Lean Enterprise Institute This game-changing book puts you behind the curtain at Toyota, providing new insight into the legendary automaker's management practices and offering practical guidance for leading and developing people in a way that makes the best use of their brainpower. Drawing on six years of research into Toyota's employee-management routines, Toyota Kata examines and elucidates, for the first time, the company's organizational routines--called kata--that power its success with continuous improvement and adaptation. The book also reaches beyond Toyota to explain issues of human behavior in organizations and provide specific answers to questions such as: How can we make improvement and adaptation part of everyday work throughout the organization? How can we develop and utilize the capability of everyone in the organization to repeatedly work toward and achieve new levels of performance? How can we give an organization the power to handle dynamic, unpredictable situations and keep satisfying customers? Mike Rother explains how to improve our prevailing management approach through the use of two kata: Improvement Kata--a repeating routine of establishing challenging target conditions, working step-by-step through obstacles, and always learning from the problems we encounter; and Coaching Kata: a pattern of teaching the improvement kata to employees at every level to ensure it motivates their ways of thinking and acting. With clear detail, an abundance of practical examples, and a cohesive explanation from start to finish, Toyota Kata gives executives and managers at any level actionable routines of thought and behavior that produce superior results and sustained competitive advantage.
Author : George D. Robson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780029266458
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (664 download)
Download or read book Continuous Process Improvement written by George D. Robson and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes a system designed to simplify the critical elements of work processes and eliminate those parts that add no value.
Author : Shruti U. Bhat
Publisher : ISBN Canada
ISBN 13 : 9781988663111
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (631 download)
Download or read book Continuous Improvement written by Shruti U. Bhat and published by ISBN Canada. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continuous Improvement- 30 Proven tools to drive Profitability, Quality and Operational Effectiveness in Manufacturing & Service Industry, is the fourth book of "Business Process Management Systems and Continuous Improvement Executive Guide Series." If you want new and effective ideas to improve your organization's efficiency, then this self-help business management book is for you. For Continuous Improvement efforts to be effective, meaningful, realistic and sustainable, it is important to use appropriate tools. Tools that will facilitate correct identification of business problems, provide required change metrics along with assisting strategic decision-making and cost-effective implementation. This book provides deep insights into 30 vital tools necessary to conduct successful Continuous Improvement campaigns. Who should read this book? This book is for Agile entrepreneurs, Startups, Leaders, QA (Quality Assurance) managers, Management consulting professionals, Production supervisors, Project leaders, Manufacturing heads, CEOs, Directors and Managers involved in decision-making, directing their organization's sustainability, profitability, and expansion. This book is also for professionals who are interested in making a career change and wish to embrace business process management (bpm) role. This book helps executives; professionals improve organizational performance in their role as a Management Consultant, Business Analyst, Continuous Improvement, or Process Management Expert. This book is also for graduate students in the process of stepping into the industrial world- be it manufacturing or a service industry. This book is not body of knowledge (BoK) for a certification exam. This book is not only meant for Business Management professionals and Process Architects & Analysts, but also for all business readers who wish to apply business improvement methodology tools in most effective, beneficial and practical ways.
