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Statistical Method from the Viewpoint of Quality Control

12/18/2020

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By: Walter A. Shewhart

​  The application of statistical methods in mass production make possible the most efficient use of raw materials and manufacturing processes, economical production, and the highest standards of quality for manufactured goods.

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Humans Are Underrated

12/17/2020

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Humans are underrated
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By: Geoff Colvin

  ​It's easy to imagine a nightmare scenario in which computers simply take over most of the tasks that people now get paid to do. The unavoidable question—will millions of people lose out, unable to best the machine?—is increasingly dominating business, education, economics, and policy.

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The Quality Toolbox

12/16/2020

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By: Nancy R. Tague

  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.

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The Logical Thinking Process: A Systems Approach to Complex Problem Solving

12/15/2020

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The Logical Thinking Process
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By: H. William Dettmer

  A major rewrite of Dettmer's classic Goldratt's Theory of Constraints, this new edition presents a whole new approach to building and applying logic trees. The logical thinking process referred to in the title is nothing less than a broadly applicable, systems-level approach to policy analysis. Dettmer has streamlined the process of constructing the logic trees while simultaneously ensuring that the results are more logically sound and closer representations of reality than ever before. He explains an easier, more logically sound way to integrate Current Reality Trees with Evaporating Clouds. 

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Supply Chain Risk Management: An Emerging Discipline

12/14/2020

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Supply Chain Risk Management
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by: Gregory L. Schlegel and Robert J. Trent

  You don’t have to outrun the bear … you just have to outrun the other guy. Often in business we only have to run a bit faster than our competitors to be successful. The same is true in risk management. While we would always like to anticipate and prevent risk from happening, when risk events do occur being faster, flexible, and more responsive than others can make a world of difference. Supply Chain Risk Management: An Emerging Discipline gives you the tools and expertise to do just that.

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Cannibals with Forks: Triple Bottom Line of 21st Century Business

12/11/2020

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Triple Bottom Line
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By:  John Elkington

  This is a definition of the "triple bottom line" of profit, environmental sustainability and social responsibility.

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Cultures and Organizations: Software of the Mind

12/10/2020

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Cultures and Organizations: Software of the Mind
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Geert Hofstede

  Based on research conducted in more than seventy countries over a forty-year span, Cultures and Organizations examines what drives people apart―when cooperation is so clearly in everyone’s interest. 

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Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

12/9/2020

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  ​In today's world, yesterday's methods just don't work. In Getting Things Done, veteran coach and management consultant David Allen shares the breakthrough methods for stress-free performance that he has introduced to tens of thousands of people across the country. Allen's premise is simple: our productivity is directly proportional to our ability to relax. Only when our minds are clear and our thoughts are organized can we achieve effective productivity and unleash our creative potential. In Getting Things Done Allen shows how to:

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Principles of Supply Chain Management, (Resource Management)

12/8/2020

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Principles of Supply Chain Management
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By: Richard E. Crandall, William R. Crandall and Charlie C. Chen

  The latest edition of this popular textbook presents a balanced overview of the principles of supply chain management. Going beyond the usual supply chain text, Principles of Supply Chain Management not only details the individual components of the supply chain, but also illustrates how the pieces must come together. To show the logic behind why supply chain management is essential, the text examines how supply chains are evolving, looks ahead to new developments, and provides a balanced look at supply chains with a focus on both the customer side and the supplier side of supply chains.

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The Joy of Lean: Transforming, Leading, and Sustaining a Culture of Engaged Team Performance

12/7/2020

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The Joy of Lean
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By: Dodd Starbird

  Has your organization tried Lean already? If so, you surely see and feel the Joy of Lean in your workplace now, right?  Don t worry. If you re not quite to joy yet, you re not alone.

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Lean Six Sigma Tools Memory Jogger

12/4/2020

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By: Sarah Carleton

  The content of The Lean Six Sigma Tools Memory Jogger is aligned with the ASQ Six Sigma Body of Knowledge, LSS 6001 Lean & Six Sigma Black Belt Training International Standard and the IASSC (International Association for Six Sigma Certification) for which GOAL/QPC is designated as an Accredited Curriculum Provider.

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The Lean Turnaround: How Business Leaders Use Lean Principles to Create Value and Transform Their Company

12/3/2020

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The Lean Turnaround
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By: Art Byrne

  Lean isn't just for manufacturing anymore . . .Few business leaders in the world have applied Lean strategy as successfully as Art Byrne has--and none has the ability to explain how to do it with such succinctness and clarity.

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The Standardized Work Field Guide

12/2/2020

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Standardized Work
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By: Timothy D. Martin, Jeffrey T. Bell, Scott A. Martin

This field guide can be used directly on the gemba (work area) for implementing and documenting standardized work. It promotes the "future state" of standardized work along with crucial step-by-step techniques and explanations not found in other publications. The authors furnish many real examples of work problems that cause Lean practitioners difficulty with documentation, along with accurate solutions to those problems. 

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The Memory Jogger

12/1/2020

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Lean Six Sigma Tools
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By: Goal/QPC

  For almost twenty years, The Memory Jogger has been helping organizations improve their daily procedures, systems, quality, costs, and yields. With more than five million copies sold worldwide, this proven on-the-job reference tool is perfect for providing your teams with practical instructions on basic quality tools and examples of problem-solving techniques.

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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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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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