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Designing and Managing the Supply Chain

11/30/2020

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Designing and Managing the Supply Chain
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  Designing and Managing the Supply Chain, provides state-of-the-art models, concepts, and solution methods that are important for the design, control, operation, and management of supply chain systems. In particular, the authors attempt to convey the intuition behind many key supply chain concepts and to provide simple techniques that can be used to analyze various aspects of the supply chain.

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The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business

11/25/2020

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The Advantage
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By: Patrick M. Lencioni

  There is a competitive advantage out there, arguably more powerful than any other. Is it superior strategy? Faster innovation? Smarter employees? No, New York Times best-selling author, Patrick Lencioni, argues that the seminal difference between successful companies and mediocre ones has little to do with what they know and how smart they are and more to do with how healthy they are. In this book, Lencioni brings together his vast experience and many of the themes cultivated in his other best-selling books and delivers a first: a cohesive and comprehensive exploration of the unique advantage organizational health provides.

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Kaizen: The Key To Japan's Competitive Success

11/24/2020

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Kaizen
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By:Masaaki Imai

For the professional manager or student of management, a comprehensive handbook of 16 Kaizen management practices that can be put to work.

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The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Course: Lean Six Sigma (McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Courses)

11/24/2020

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Lean Six Sigma Books
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By: Sheila Shaffie

  With the integration of Lean and Six Sigma, businesses have a potent tool in the never-ending drive to deliver top-quality service and products. But you don’t need to be a Black Belt to build quality and efficiency into all areas of your operation; you just need The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Course: Lean Six Sigma.

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Competitive Advantage

11/23/2020

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Competitive Advantage
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  The essential complement to the path breaking book Competitive Strategy, Michael E. Porter's Competitive Advantage explores the underpinnings of competitive advantage in the individual firm.

Competitive Advantage introduces a whole new way of understanding what a firm does. Porter's groundbreaking concept of the value chain disaggregates a company into "activities," or the discrete functions or processes that represent the elemental building blocks of competitive advantage.

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Lean Lexicon: A Graphical Glossary for Lean Thinkers

11/20/2020

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Lean Lexicon
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By: Lean Enterprise Institute, Chet Marchwinski and John Shook

With help from the Lean Community, the Lean Lexicon even more valuable and useful. Starting with improvement ideas from Community members like you, we researched and added 21 definitions to the latest edition of this popular and indispensable reference book.  The expanded Latest Edition, featuring 58 illustrations, defines 187 key lean terms from A3 Report to Yokoten. The new definitions include Lean Consumption and Lean Provision, the groundbreaking ideas on using lean principles to build a new producer-consumer model described in Lean Solutions by James Womack and Daniel Jones. True to the Lexicon's description as a "graphical glossary," we included consumption and provision maps.  Here's a list of some of the new terms:

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Operations Management For Dummies

11/19/2020

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Production Planning
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By: Mary Ann Anderson, Edward J. Anderson and Geoffrey Parker.

  Operations management is an important skill for current and aspiring business leaders to develop and master. It deals with the design and management of products, processes, services, and supply chains. Operations management is a growing field and a required course for most undergraduate business majors and MBA candidates. Now, Operations Management For Dummies serves as an extremely resourceful aid for this difficult subject.

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Everything I Know About Lean I Learned in First Grade

11/18/2020

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Everything I know about Lean I learned in first grade.
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By: Robert O. Martichenko, Liz Maute and Pascal Dennis.

Every lean practitioner occasionally wishes for a simple, fun, and quick-read introduction to lean thinking to give acquaintances, associates, and family members - even to our kids. If lean thinking often entails unlearning a plethora of bad habits, wouldn't it better if we learned better thinking - and habits - from the beginning? Everything I Know About Lean I Learned in First Grade is just that sort of book. It brings lean back to its original simplicity by showing how lean is alive in a first grade classroom. The book connects common lean tools to the broader lean journey, shows how to identify and eliminate waste, and aids the reader in seeing lean for what it truly is: a way to create a learning and problem-solving culture. 

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Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action

11/17/2020

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Start with Why
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By: Simon Sinek

  In 2009, Simon Sinek started a movement to help people become more inspired at work, and in turn inspire their colleagues and customers. Since then, millions have been touched by the power of his ideas, including more than 28 million who’ve watched his TED Talk based on START WITH WHY -- the third most popular TED video of all time.

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The Spirit of Kaizen: Creating Lasting Excellence One Small Step at a Time

11/16/2020

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Kaizen
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By: Robert Maurer

Today’s businesses love the idea of revolutionary, immediate change. But major “disruptive” efforts often fail because radical change sets off alarms in our brains and shuts down our power to think clearly and creatively.  There is, however, a more effective path to change. Change that is lasting and powerful. Change that begins with one small step . . .

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How To Implement Lean Manufacturing

11/13/2020

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Lean Manufacturing
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By: Lonnie Wilson

  ​Thoroughly updated with the latest trends and new global case studies, How to Implement Lean Manufacturing, explains how to implement this powerful formula for eliminating waste, controlling quality and inventory, and improving overall performance across an enterprise environment. The book addresses the engineering and production aspects as well as the business culture challenges.
This practical guide describes the Toyota Production System (TPS) and specifies the distinct order in which Lean techniques should be applied to achieve maximum gains. By using the proven methods in this definitive resource, you can implement a successful Lean transformation in your organization. Find how to:

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TQM: Introduction to and Overview of Total Quality Management

11/12/2020

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By: ASQ Quality Press

  Total quality management (TQM) is a term initially coined by the Naval Air Systems Command to describe its management approach to quality improvement. It has since taken on many meanings. Simply put, TQM is a management approach to long-term success through customer satisfaction. It is based on the participation of all members of an organization in improving processes, products, services, and the culture they work in.

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Lean Six Sigma Demystified

11/11/2020

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Lean Six Sigma
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By: Jay Arthur

  Ready to implement better, faster, cheaper, more-profitable processes in your organization? Lean Six Sigma Demystified, shows you how to use proven techniques for simplifying, streamlining, and optimizing business practices for maximum productivity and profitability.

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TPM Team Guide (The Shopfloor Series)

11/10/2020

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Total Productive Maintenance
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By: Gene Constant

  TPM involves employees company wide in preventing equipment abnormalities and breakdowns. The first line of defense: equipment operators-the people most familiar with daily operating conditions. In addition to regular cleaning and inspection, team-based improvement activities make effective use of operators' hands-on knowledge.

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Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t

11/9/2020

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Simon Sinek
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By: Simon Sinek

  Imagine a world where almost everyone wakes up inspired to go to work, feels trusted and valued during the day, then returns home feeling fulfilled. This is not a crazy, idealized notion. As Simon Sinek noticed in his travels around the world, great leaders create environments in which people naturally work together to do remarkable things. Some of these teams trust each other so deeply that they would literally put their lives on the line for each other. 
 
Far more common, unfortunately, are teams that seem doomed to infighting, fragmentation, and failure, no matter what incentives are offered. But why?

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The Toyota Way to Lean Leadership: Achieving and Sustaining Excellence through Leadership Development

11/7/2020

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The Toyota Way to Lean Leadership
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By: Jeffrey K. Liker, Gary L. Convis

  The missing link to long-term Lean success! Despite the fact that companies worldwide have adopted Lean production, none has sustained the same levels of excellence as Toyota. Why? Leadership. In The Toyota Way to Lean Leadership, Jeffrey Liker and Gary L. Convis, a former executive V.P. and managing officer of Toyota, help executives and senior managers get employees to refocus their efforts--from simply performing their singular function to continuously improving in collaboration across the organization. Case studies from Toyota clearly illustrate the methods that create powerful, effective Lean leadership. Jeffrey Liker, author of the popular Toyota Way books, is the acknowledged expert on Toyota processes. ​

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Learning to See: Value Stream Mapping to Add Value and Eliminate MUDA

11/6/2020

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Value Stream Mapping
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By: Mike Rother, John Shook, Jim Womack, Dan Jones.

  Much more important, these simple maps - often drawn on scrap paper - showed where steps could be eliminated, flows smoothed, and pull systems introduced in order to create a truly lean value stream for each product family.  In 1998 John teamed with Mike Rother of the University of Michigan to write down Toyota's mapping methodology for the first time in Learning to See. This simple tool makes it possible for you to see through the clutter of a complex plant. You'll soon be able to identify all of the processing steps along ​the path from raw materials to finished goods for each product and all of the information flows going back from the customer through the plant and upstream to suppliers.

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Lean Six Sigma!: The Ultimate Beginners Guide To Lean Six Sigma (Lean, Six Sigma, Quality Control, ITIL, Agile, Scrum) Kindle Edition

11/5/2020

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Lean Six Sigma The Ultimate Beginners Guide
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By: Adam Vardy

The Ultimate Beginners Crash Course To Learning Lean Six Sigma!Are You Ready To Learn All About The Lean Six Sigma Model? If So You've Come To The Right Place - Regardless Of How Little Experience You May Have!

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Practitioners guide to statistics for process improvements

11/3/2020

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Lean Six Sigma
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By: Mikel J. Harry, Prem S. Mann, Ofelia C. De Hodgens, Richard L. Hulbert and Christopher J. Lacke.

  ​In today's business world, Six Sigma, or Lean Six Sigma, is a crucial tool utilized by companies to improve customer satisfaction, increase profitability, and enhance productivity. Practitioner's Guide to Statistics and Lean Six Sigma for Process Improvements provides a balanced approach to quantitative and qualitative statistics using Six Sigma and Lean Six Sigma methodologies.
Emphasizing applications and the implementation of data analyses as they relate to this strategy for business management, this book introduces readers to the concepts and techniques for solving problems and improving managerial processes using Six Sigma and Lean Six Sigma.

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The Toyota Engagement Equation: How to Understand and Implement Continuous Improvement Thinking in Any Organization

11/2/2020

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Continuous Improvement
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By: Tracey Richardson and Ernie Richardson

  In 1986, Toyota opened a factory in rural Kentucky and unveiled TPS, its revolutionary management system. While most manufacturers and organizations now use Lean methods, the application is almost always superficial and confined within existing management frameworks. Consequently, the groundbreaking transformation that allowed Toyota to flourish against incredible odds has rarely been replicated.

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Keeping Score: Using the Right Metrics to Drive World Class Performance

10/30/2020

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Keeping Score
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  Keeping Score ensures that you look at the right metrics. The author contends that metrics must focus on the past, present, and future and be based on the needs of the customers, shareholders, and employees. 

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Five Pillars of the Visual Workplace

10/29/2020

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 A critical yet often overlooked area in the visual workplace is the concept of continuous improvement. In this important work, JIT expert Hiroyuki Hirano introduces his 5S System: Sort, Set In Order, Shine, Standardize, and Sustain.

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Taiichi Ohnos Workplace Management

10/28/2020

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Taiichi Ohno
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  ​Businesses worldwide are successfully implementing the Toyota Production System to speed up processes, reduce waste, improve quality, and cut costs. While there is widespread adoption of TPS, there is still much to be learned about its fundamental principles.

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Seven Basic Quality Tools

10/27/2020

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Seven Basic Quality Tools
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By: ASQ Quality Press

  • "The Old Seven."
  • "The First Seven."
  • "The Basic Seven." ​

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Lean Six Sigma

10/27/2020

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Lean Six Sigma
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By: Donna C.S. Summers

  A leader’s ability to manage in a complex environment is crucial to their organization’s success. Quality, productivity, and cost.

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