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Design for Manufacturability How to Use Concurrent Engineering to Rapidly Develop High-Quality Products for Lean Production Second

Design for Manufacturability How to Use Concurrent Engineering to Rapidly Develop High-Quality Products for Lean Production Second

Achieve any cost goals in half the time and achieve stable production with quality designed in right-the-first-time. Design for Manufacturability: How to Use Concurrent Engineering to Rapidly Develop Low-Cost High-Quality Products for Lean Production is still the definitive work on DFM. This second edition extends the proven methodology to the most advanced product development process with the addition of the following new unique and original topics which have never been addressed previously. These topics show you how to: Cut cost from 1/2 to 1/10 in 9 categories—with ways to remove that much cost from product charges and pricing Commercialize innovation—starting with Manufacturable Research and learning from the new section on scalability you will learn how to design products and processing equipment to quickly scale up to any needed demand or desired growth. Design product families that can be built on-demand in platform cells that also mass customize products to-order Make Lean production easier to implement with much more effective results while making build-to-order practical with spontaneous supply chains and eliminating forecasted inventory by including an updated chapter on Designing Products for Lean Production The author’s 30 years of experience teaching companies DFM based on pre-class surveys and plant tours is the foundation of this most advanced design process. It includes incorporating dozens of proven DFM guidelines through up-front concurrent-engineering teamwork that cuts the time to stable production in half and curtails change orders for ramps rework redesign substituting cheaper parts change orders to fix the changes unstable design specs part obsolescence and late discovery of manufacturability issues at periodic design reviews. This second edition is for the whole product development community including: Engineers who want to learn the most advanced DFM techniques Managers who want to lead the most advanced product development Project team leaders who want to immediately apply all the principles taught in this book in their own micro-climate Improvement leaders and champions who want to implement the above and ensure that the company can design products and versatile processing equipment for low-volume/high-mix product varieties Designing half to a tenth of cost categories can avoid substituting cheap parts which degrades quality and encourages standardization and spontaneous supply chains which will encourage Lean initiatives. Using cellular manufacturing to shift production between lines for mixed production of platforms and build-to-order to offer the fastest order fulfillment can beat any competitors’ delivery time. | Design for Manufacturability How to Use Concurrent Engineering to Rapidly Develop High-Quality Products for Lean Production Second

GBP 56.99
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Fostering Innovation How to Develop Innovation as a Core Competency and Connect the Principles of Lean in Your Organization

Fostering Innovation How to Develop Innovation as a Core Competency and Connect the Principles of Lean in Your Organization

While innovation can be defined in many ways the author sees it as a process. It is not the sudden eureka moment in the middle of the night nor is it a clear and linear path towards a final destination. Instead it involves a strong sense of creativity and curiosity. An innovative mind has a natural inclination towards out-of-the-box thinking. It involves a willingness to try something new without fear or judgment to develop something no one else has ever articulated. While the mindset comes naturally it requires fuel to keep it running. Innovators are voracious readers and researchers. They feed their mindset all of the fuel it needs to stay informed and relevant in their field. Many of the same things can be said for the Lean mindset. Lean management doesn’t happen overnight and it is very rarely a clear and linear path to true Lean thinking. Some might consider Lean a subset of innovative thinking while others see it in reverse. Regardless of the relationship’s directionality one thing is certain: You cannot have one without the other. This book follows John Riley the CEO of a medium-sized valve company just outside of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania who will stop at nothing to create an innovative work environment. Through the ups and downs of his journey he learns a number of Lean and innovative skills strategies and mindsets to help him build the business he’s always envisioned for himself. Throughout the book you see examples of both strong and poor innovative leadership skills demonstrated by each of the main characters. The key messages are ones that help leaders build and access a mindset insistent on continuous improvement. Leadership techniques and abilities that bolster creative thought and problem-solving are the most successful throughout this book. To be truly innovative you can never stop driving the learning process. For this to happen leaders need to recognize when there is a need for a change or improvement. This is the beauty of the marriage between Lean and innovation: They both require continuous learning and growth. The desire to improve is only one piece of this equation however. The other is the willingness to act. Without both of these factors true innovation will always be out of reach. | Fostering Innovation How to Develop Innovation as a Core Competency and Connect the Principles of Lean in Your Organization

GBP 30.99
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The Basics of Line Balancing and JIT Kitting

The Basics of Line Balancing and JIT Kitting

Accessible to the Lean novice and shop floor employee The Basics of Line Balancing and JIT Kitting explores line balancing and the pre-assembly of components into a finished product in a just-in-time fashion (JIT Kitting). It explains how to use time studies develop yamazumi charts discover and eliminate waste balance your line and create new standard work content for the shop floor. The book facilitates a clear understanding of the seven deadly wastes (muda) as well as what you can do to eliminate them from your facility. Describing the purpose and use of standard work it explains how to properly staff work cells and how to develop flex plans for fluctuations in demand using this data. The first few chapters explain how to determine takt time and how to use that information along with time studies to identify when you are not meeting customer demand. The chapters on JIT Kitting explain how there are other advantages to kitting besides eliminating waste and increasing productivity. The book explains how you can use JIT Kitting to improve quality by having the parts available and limiting the options of numerous parts to the operator. It also provides the understanding needed to ensure the right parts are installed thereby correcting issues with the build of materials.

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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How to Build Your Brand Implementing a Proven and Effective Process

How to Build Your Brand Implementing a Proven and Effective Process

Brand Strategy is the most important marketing talent. A 2020 Gartner Survey of 400 CMO's cited Brand Strategy as the most needed skill more valuable than analytics UX digital commerce. Previous books on the subject analyze the qualities and characteristics of well-regarded brands. What these books don't offer are the how to's of branding. This book empowers readers by teaching them the author's unique time-tested Success Model and step-by-step repeatable method for successful brand building. After reading this insightful book you will learn how to: Develop big picture insight that inspires big brand ideas Use imagery to understand the fundamental human values that give our life meaning as well as learn about the feelings that reveal our hopes and dreams. Develop highly motivating brand concepts that link to our values and aspirations. Create the tactical roadmap to implement the concepts. The author clearly shares the: Success Model that defines the world's most successful brands. Case studies that demonstrate the Model in action. Step-by-step method to implement the model. The evidence - scientific and psychological -. that supports the model and method. Essentially this book empowers readers to become skilled brand builders enabling them to succeed personally socially and professionally. For more information on this book please visit: www. howtobuildyourbrand. net | How to Build Your Brand Implementing a Proven and Effective Process

GBP 31.99
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Medical Practice Business Plan Workbook

Medical Practice Business Plan Workbook

How does a medical practice thrive in a business environment where the margin of management error has all but disappeared? Profit margins are being squeezed by declining reimbursement rates capitation plans gamesmanship on the part of the payors and increasing operating costs. Addressing the specific needs of today‘s medical practice Medical Practice Business Plan Workbook Third Edition supplies a detailed and ordered work plan to tackle some of the most pressing issues facing the field. Peter D. Lucash delves into decades of experience helping physician groups develop business plans to guide you along the process of building the profitable practice you want and deserve. This updated edition of a bestseller begins with a review of the fundamentals including the questions your plan should answer how to get started how to organize and develop your plan and the staff support and resources you will need. Complete with a wealth of helpful sample plans and worksheets this workbook: Reflects recent changes in the healthcare industry including federal healthcare reform Offers a one-of-a-kind design and approach tailored to the medical practice Covers conceptualization organization and implementation of your business plan This updated edition reflects current and forecasted challenges for practices including the Affordable Care Act data security and quality and outcome measures. It supplies detailed coverage of the different types of organizations governance and management personnel needs key business relationships and contacts demographics and economic factors patients as customers competitor analysis marketing information technology disaster and business continuity planning and financial strategies. The final section outlines a process for implementing your plan. Sticking to this process will help ensure your plan covers what is needed to succeed in today‘s complex

GBP 160.00
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Managing As Mission Nonprofit Managing for Sustainable Change

Managing As Mission Nonprofit Managing for Sustainable Change

Managing As Mission pushes the boundaries of what it means to be a nonprofit manager by making the case that managing as a reflection of the organizational mission – the cornerstone of any nonprofit – can bring about the change nonprofits were created to achieve: a better world for all. This book contains real-world examples interview excerpts from nonprofit managers and directors and a series of self-reflection and organization-wide tools to develop managers and managing as a mirror of the mission. Themes within this book include: a discussion of the history of nonprofit missions; management tasks and approaches; aligning values; building working relationship and trust; and creating organizational structures and interactions that mirror the organizational mission. It is written in an informal first-person style utilizing humor that will hopefully allow the reader to see themselves in the examples and stories. | Managing As Mission Nonprofit Managing for Sustainable Change

GBP 31.99
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Manufacturing Mastery The Path to Building Successful and Enduring Manufacturing Businesses

Manufacturing Mastery The Path to Building Successful and Enduring Manufacturing Businesses

While there are those who say manufacturing is dying it is not and will not. Without a universal vow of poverty growing economies will only increase demand. Manufacturing in the 21st century is not a question of if - Rather it is a function of why what who where and how. The nature and pace of change in those factors are overwhelming many. Fear futile resistance and uncertainty are common. While manufacturing will not die individual manufacturing companies will if they do not learn to thrive in this new world. This book is a dynamic guide for manufacturing leaders who want to reduce the ambiguity and overwhelming changes and develop a realistic progressive and responsive thinking process that enables success. It provides a business operating system framework that is the foundation for connecting the many pieces of a manufacturing business into an effective profitable operation. The author walks through the elements relationships capabilities and mutability 21st-century manufacturing requires. Executives of manufacturing companies will be better able to think about and execute viable strategies leveraging the changing economy. Essentially manufacturing is becoming increasingly complex as are business and socioeconomic and political realities. Rapidly evolving technology adds to the confusing environment that precludes “more of the same better faster and cheaper” as a workable business strategy. The tsunami of information hitting owners and leaders is overwhelming many and it is easy to become frozen in place. Economic growth and improving standards of living require that all of this change be broken into bite-size understandable pieces that thaw the minds of executives allowing them to assess what is best right now and move forward. This book does not overwhelm with details and models; rather it provides thinking and examples in small chunks that enable manufacturers to develop and master skills for high-level strategic leadership in ambiguity. | Manufacturing Mastery The Path to Building Successful and Enduring Manufacturing Businesses

GBP 31.99
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Giving Wings to Her Team A Novel About Learning to Coach the Toyota Kata Way

Giving Wings to Her Team A Novel About Learning to Coach the Toyota Kata Way

Denise dreamed of being the kind of leader who empowered and engaged her people but was becoming frustrated and disillusioned. Denise - a fast-rising young consultant at a large advisory firm - lands a job as a manager in industry. Crisis strikes as low-cost competitors take market share and general chaos generates late shipments. Denise goes into Lean consulting mode but quickly learns her supervisors are not buying it. They're not engaged and they find the Lean tools confusing and a distraction from their goals of getting product out. It's going to take some magic - magic that's available to you the reader too! Come with Denise on a journey of discovery and skill development as she moves beyond the tools and concepts of Lean and focuses on daily practice that helps her supervisors achieve their goals. It's about an approach called Toyota Kata that helps anyone develop and apply scientific thinking - an exploratory mindset of curiosity and experimentation. A mentor from an unlikely place appears and shares with Denise how to coach her team. Once her supervisors dig into real problems they face every day they begin to engage. Step by step with insightful inputs from her mentor Denise starts developing the skills to become a coaching manager. She watches her team meet their current challenges and be ready for more. When you teach and practice scientific thinking and coaching skills you give wings to your team and new worlds of opportunity open up. If you're a manager you'll identify with how the team in this story goes beyond general preaching about best practices to practicing how to get to where they want to be. If you're a Lean practitioner frustrated with applying tools with a limited half life you'll learn how to develop people so they can achieve their most important goals and keep going. And if you're already a Toyota Kata practitioner well . you will love this book! | Giving Wings to Her Team A Novel About Learning to Coach the Toyota Kata Way

GBP 24.99
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Information Governance for Healthcare Professionals A Practical Approach

Information Governance for Healthcare Professionals A Practical Approach

Like other critical organizational assets information is a strategic asset that requires high level of oversight in order to be able to effectively use it for organizational decision-making performance improvement cost management and risk mitigation. Adopting an information governance program shows a healthcare organization’s commitment to managing its information as a valued strategic asset. Information governance serves the dual purpose of optimizing the ability to extract clinical and business value from healthcare information while meeting compliance needs and mitigating risk. Healthcare organizations that have information governance programs will have a competitive edge over others and contributes to safety and quality of care population health operational efficiency and effectiveness and cost reduction initiatives. This is a much-needed book in the healthcare market space. It will explain in clear terms how to develop launch and oversee an Information Governance program. It also provides advice and insights from leading IG cybersecurity and information privacy professionals in healthcare. | Information Governance for Healthcare Professionals A Practical Approach

GBP 31.99
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Rethinking Organizational Diversity Equity and Inclusion A Step-by-Step Guide for Facilitating Effective Change

Rethinking Organizational Diversity Equity and Inclusion A Step-by-Step Guide for Facilitating Effective Change

Research has shown that having a diverse organization only improves and enhances businesses. Forbes and Time report that diversity is an $8 Billion a year investment. However poorly implementing diversity programs have damaging effects on the organization and the very individuals these programs attempt to help. Poorly implemented programs can cause peers and subordinates to question decisions and lose faith in leadership. In addition it can cause even the most confident individuals to doubt their own skillset and qualifications. Many organizations have turned to training to solve this complex issue. Yet still other organizations have created and filled diversity and inclusion positions to tackle the issue. The effects of these poorly implemented programs are highlighted during strenuous times such as the latest COVID-19 pandemic. Marginalized people are more marginalized and resources and support do not reach everyone. Tasks such as providing technical support conducting large group meetings or distributing work obligations without seeing employees on a daily basis becomes more challenging. Complex problems cannot be solved with simple solutions. Using organization development (OD) to develop a comprehensive change initiative can help. This book outlines how properly conducting an OD change initiative can effectively increase an organization’s diversity and inclusion - it is grounded in research-based literature on diversity and OD principles. Many organizational leaders realize the key importance of diversity equity inclusion and multiculturalism in modern organizations. It is only through such efforts can organizations thrive in a networked world where much work is done virtually—and often across borders. But a common scenario is that leaders recognizing the need for a diversity program will pick someone from the organization to launch it. Perhaps the person identified for this challenge is in the HR department but has had no experience in launching diversity efforts—or even in managing large-scale long-term organization wide change efforts. But these are the challenges to be faced. This book quickly identifies some reasons why diversity programs fail and how to avoid those failures. The majority of the book highlights how to use OD to improve organization culture and processes to not only increase diversity and inclusion but develop overall organization talent and prevent personal preferences and biases from hindering the selection of the best talent for positions. | Rethinking Organizational Diversity Equity and Inclusion A Step-by-Step Guide for Facilitating Effective Change

GBP 34.99
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The Four Philosophies of Lean Maintaining a Customer-Focused Culture Every Day at Work

The Four Philosophies of Lean Maintaining a Customer-Focused Culture Every Day at Work

This book provides a comprehensive look at four driving philosophies of lean methodology that many companies struggle to understand. Companies often adopt lean methodologies and work hard to perfect the use of those methods while never understanding the true intent of the method. Ultimately knowledge does not equal understanding. Customer First is about each manufacturing process sending the next manufacturing process a high-quality defect-free product every time. When people hear the word customer their mindset is thinking about the end user but when a company understands that every process has a customer a high-quality product is produced at each stage of the manufacturing process. As kids most of us grew up hearing the phrase respect your elders and while this still applies respect for people has additional and stronger connotations. In business the work content must fit the capacity – in lay terms a fair day’s work for a fair wage. Setting up our colleagues for failure by giving them more work content than can be completed is not showing them respect and in essence it is simply disrespectful. In addition respect is how we develop and engage our colleagues in their daily work. The idea Go and See is often overlooked because we know the process in which the problem exists but if we evaluate what is actually happening we generally find that what should be happening isn’t. As people view what is happening questions will come to mind: how does the operator know to do that? Does the standard work give that knowledge? These questions lead to giving clarity about the problem and will drive the thinking to a solution. Business in general is dynamic and ever changing. Companies must be able to adapt overcome and improvise to remain competitive. The challenge is identifying where to target or how to develop a continuous improvement culture in the workforce to drive improvement. Companies get stuck in the mindset of this is how we have always done it and this mindset can be a very limiting or even crippling situation. The Four Philosophies of Lean: Maintaining a Customer-Focused Culture Every Day at Work helps readers change mindsets and solve difficult situations. | The Four Philosophies of Lean Maintaining a Customer-Focused Culture Every Day at Work

GBP 30.99
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Developing Leadership Excellence A Practice Guide for the New Professional Supervisor

Developing Leadership Excellence A Practice Guide for the New Professional Supervisor

Professional Supervision is a core component of maintaining professional practice and accreditation for many professions particularly in the community and human services sector. Professions such as Social Workers Occupational Therapists Physiotherapists Teachers Nurses Midwives Doctors Counsellors and Psychologists are encouraged to access regular professional supervision as part of maintaining professional standards in their role; engage self care; promote ongoing growth and development; and meet organisational requirements. Throughout her career Tracey Harris had had a passion for the role that professional and operational supervision has in the workplace. She has developed a systematic framework that ensures supervision remains effective and sustainable over time. As part of the supervision platform and system Tracey has developed a range of unique resources tools and documents for beginning supervisory practitioners to assist them to develop the necessary skills to feel confident and supported in their new role. She has developed seven integrated supervision models that provide a common language framework for all roles in the organizational and business context. Developing Supervisory Excellence: A Practice Guide for the New Professional Supervisor is the first text of its kind to integrate the existing frameworks of supervision into a comprehensive model of practice providing new supervisors with a clear procedural and practice guide for conducting professional and operational supervision. In addition it provides new supervisors with a range of resources to support record track and evaluate the supervision process and outcomes. This book: Outlines the different types of supervision and provides reflective questions to encourage new supervisors to reflect on what supervision is its purpose what it hopes to achieve and explores what inadequate supervision looks like. Provides new supervisors with a guide on what to look for in quality training what key topics are useful in training and concludes with reflective questions for new supervisors to consider when thinking about engaging in training. Provides a detailed analysis of the benefits of providing and engaging in professional supervision. Provides key information for new supervisors about how to set up supervision and build rapport in the supervisory relationship. Explores how to maintain professional boundaries and the process of providing and receiving helpful feedback. Outlined and provides examples of relevant documents to use in supervision given the ethical and industrial nature of supervision. Discusses the value of evaluating professional supervision and includes reflective questions for supervisors to consider as they develop a framework for evaluation. Discusses the core differences between the supervision styles and how to manage the dual role of line and professional supervisor. Outlines an example framework for assessing competency and capability for new supervisors. | Developing Leadership Excellence A Practice Guide for the New Professional Supervisor

GBP 31.99
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Lean Human Performance Improvement

Lean Human Performance Improvement

As companies continue their efforts to improve work performance they must ensure that their ongoing Lean activities include a healthy appreciation for and recognition of human performance. Ignoring the human component of work performance can be a recipe for unnecessary waste inefficiency and decreased productivity. Lean Human Performance Improvement presents a broad overview of human performance in the workplace. The author discusses his findings from a broad spectrum of human performance-related fields and diverse industrial sectors (gained by working in the field for over 30 years). Organized in three sections this book covers understanding human performance analyzing and improving work productivity and analyzing and improving quality and safety. The author first develops a fundamental and basic understanding of human performance then couples that understanding with learning how to analyze and improve human-related work productivity and quality and safety. He also discusses how knowledge and skills transfer from one work setting to another. Intended for Lean Six Sigma team members and human performance improvement practitioners the book contains multiple examples from diverse work settings to explain key points. It also includes several major case studies. The goal of all examples and case studies is to develop a generic understanding that in turn can be successfully applied to any work setting.

GBP 170.00
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Handbook of Concierge Medical Practice Design

Handbook of Concierge Medical Practice Design

In concierge medicine physicians develop amenities-rich membership programs and collect a monthly or annual membership fee to pay for the amenities in addition to the medical services rendered. Handbook of Concierge Medical Practice Design examines the many considerations physicians must make prior to transitioning their practices into concierge services. Maria K. Todd a recognized expert in concierge medicine branding consulting healthcare marketing medical tourism planning and physician practice administration explains how to set up a concierge practice. She describes how this new business model affects workflow and outlines financial considerations including managed care payer relations the hybrid practice and predictive modeling to uncover the hidden factors that affect bottom-line performance. The book supplies readers with models for creating a business plan and a strategy for transforming a practice into a concierge practice. It concludes by covering the legal aspects of creating a concierge practice. It includes patient acquisition and retention strategies as well as detailed plans for adding additional doctors and physician extenders such as nurse practitioners and physician assistants. The book provides sample employment contracts and advice on how to select and work with consultants. It includes chapters on business process re-engineering workflow management financial considerations competitive analysis developing a business plan and how to market the new practice.

GBP 175.00
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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

GBP 31.99
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Planning Quality Project Management of (EMR/EHR) Software Products

Planning Quality Project Management of (EMR/EHR) Software Products

When hospitals began implementing their electronic medical records/electronic health records systems (EMR/HER) the pharmaceutical companies that were conducting clinical trials at those hospitals wanted to sue the date from those systems instead of having the hospitals enter the data in their EHR systems and also in the study data entry system. However the FDA regulations would require that the hospital systems be validated. The hospitals and the companies developing the systems argued that was over-regulation. HIMSS published their Developer Code of Conduct where they said instead they would use Quality Management techniques. This book covers how to use Quality Management (ISO 9001) to develop computer systems specifically EMR systems. It gives a basic introduction to how to implement computer systems. It also covers the topic of compliance because the hospitals are required to comply with regulations other than FDS regulations. The book also discusses the topics of risk management and conducting audits both of which are part of ISO 9001 quality management of computer systems. The book is designed to give the reader an introduction to the things you have to do when implementing a computer system that has to satisfy some standards and where the accuracy of the information could impact the accuracy of a person’s medical treatment. | Planning Quality Project Management of (EMR/EHR) Software Products

GBP 69.99
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Strategic Listening How Managers Coworkers and Organizations Can Become Better at Listening

Strategic Listening How Managers Coworkers and Organizations Can Become Better at Listening

Listening is so simple yet so difficult. Many times listening is taken for granted. One could therefore say that listening is the forgotten part of communication. Although organizations have more digital and analog communication channels than ever too little time is spent listening to customers employees and other influential groups. It is a shame that listening is not given more attention as it is linked to many positive values. Examples include better conversations increased trust and confidence more outstanding commitment and job satisfaction lower absenteeism due to illness higher productivity and quality of work increased sales better relationships with customers and employees and many other positive effects. To the extent that listening takes place organizations rarely take a holistic approach to it. Strategic listening means a given objective for listening thoughts about who should listen when it should happen and so on. An organization’s listening must become a strategic issue to exploit the great potential of increased listening. This book provides answers to the following: Why is listening important? What are the barriers to listening? How can both individuals and organizations become better at listening? How can organizations develop strategic listening skills? How does one build a system to improve an organization’s strategic listening? | Strategic Listening How Managers Coworkers and Organizations Can Become Better at Listening

GBP 26.95
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Why Bother? Why and How to Assess Your Continuous-Improvement Culture

Why Bother? Why and How to Assess Your Continuous-Improvement Culture

This book focusses on the importance of creating an internal assessment program to periodically assess the maturity of the organizations transformation journey. It discusses the best approach to designing and implementing an assessment program by answering key questions posed when people resist. The book begins with selecting the positioning of the program not as an audit but as an opportunity to review strengths and opportunities through to selecting senior leader support to design of the program and developing the assessors. More than 10 case studies are documented to show how organizations have approached their assessment programs lessons learned and successes and challenges faced. The book leads the reader through the process of selling the concept and importance of transformation and Lean assessments to embed the desired behaviors within workplace culture. With many case studies the reader is guided to design their own programs and develop their own assessors. This increases the probability of sustainability of the transformation program by focusing on and maturing the behaviors the transformation programs are trying to drive. For example one of the most well-known assessments is the Shingo prize - This book explains the thinking behind the Shingo model and shares examples of assessments that support it. Other examples of assessments are covered such as process maturity quality and business assessments. | Why Bother? Why and How to Assess Your Continuous-Improvement Culture

GBP 31.99
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Renovating Healthcare IT Building the Foundation for Digital Transformation

Renovating Healthcare IT Building the Foundation for Digital Transformation

Healthcare IT is under tremendous pressure in today’s environment: Budgets are shrinking; staff are in short supply; cloud mobile and data are driving expansion and innovation. Consumer expectations are high while agility and speed to market for many HIT organizations is low. The exponential growth of data sources and the need to empower healthcare with data-driven intelligence is pushing capabilities. The words digital transformation are infused in just about every discussion and serve to amplify organizational expectations of IT. In this environment IT departments have to retool rethink and revise their way of operating. Few have the option of starting from scratch; the vast majority of organizations have built IT functions over decades. Now it’s time to remodel and renovate for the future. This book walks the reader through the process of determining what type of IT function they have today and what they’ll need tomorrow. It discusses how to assess and analyze IT capabilities and then develop and implement a plan to renovate in place. By retooling now the IT function can successfully meet the growing demands of the organization in the future. When approached in a planful manner this process of renovating can energize the entire organization and help foster innovation and transformation along the way. | Renovating Healthcare IT Building the Foundation for Digital Transformation

GBP 46.99
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Toyota Kaizen Methods Six Steps to Improvement

Toyota Kaizen Methods Six Steps to Improvement

Toyota Kaizen Methods: Six Steps to Improvement focuses on the skills and techniques practiced inside Toyota Motor Corporation during the past decades. This workbook focuses on the actual training course concepts and methods used by Toyota to develop employee skill level a core element of Toyota‘s success. It is not a book about holding Western-style five-day Kaizen events which were in reality quite rare during the development of Toyota‘s production system and are virtually nonexistent today inside Toyota. Written by two of Toyota‘s most revered and experienced trainers the book Traces the origins of Kaizen since the inception of Toyota Motor Corporation Articulates the basic six-step Kaizen improvement skills pattern taught inside Toyota Helps practitioners of Kaizen improve their own skill level and confidence by simplifying concepts and removing any mystery in the process Provides homework assignments and a wealth of forms for analyzing work processes If you take the time to study the concepts detailed here you will be reviewing the same methods and techniques that were harnessed by generations of Toyota supervisors managers and engineers. These techniques are not the secret ingredient of Lean manufacturing; however mastery of these timeless techniques will improve your ability to conduct improvement in almost any setting and generate improvement results for your organization. | Toyota Kaizen Methods Six Steps to Improvement

GBP 170.00
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Lean – Let’s Get It Right How to Build a Culture of Continuous Improvement

Lean – Let’s Get It Right How to Build a Culture of Continuous Improvement

Lean – Let’s Get It Right!: How to Build a Culture of Continuous Improvement (978-0-367-42991-1 340939) Shelving Guide: Business & Management / Lean Management This book addresses the root causes of why a majority of Lean transformations have not met expectations. More importantly it provides the information needed to turn around the failure mechanisms and transform them into critical success factors. Lean – Let’s Get It Right! delves into the psychology of change and motivation and clarifies the roles and responsibility changes which are required for alignment with Lean principles. While the author includes a review of Lean principles the majority of the book either provides more depth of understanding of the principles or highlights how misalignment can thwart Lean transformation efforts. What this provides is not only clarity but it establishes a solid reference point or framework to guide the Lean strategy. The reader will begin to see how the principles are not simply a random set of characteristics or features of Lean but are actually a set of fundamental beliefs on which all else is based. Though repeated throughout the book that an organization must develop the specifics of their own Lean roadmap this book concludes with guidance on making it happen. This book with its primary focus on people leadership and principles and less so on the details of tools and techniques can be thought of as providing the few critical missing puzzle pieces to enable an effective Lean transformation. | Lean – Let’s Get It Right How to Build a Culture of Continuous Improvement

GBP 39.99
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Fundamentals of Daily Shop Floor Management A Guide for Manufacturing Optimization and Excellence

Fundamentals of Daily Shop Floor Management A Guide for Manufacturing Optimization and Excellence

Survival and thriving in today’s business environment require companies to continuously strive for operational excellence at all levels of the organization. Simply working to maintain existing operations is not an adequate or sustainable business strategy especially when competing in a global market. To remain relevant companies must adopt a process control and continuous improvement mentality as an integral part of their daily work activities. These two operational disciplines form the foundation and stepping stones for manufacturing excellence. Processes must be stable capable and controlled as a prerequisite for sustainable improvement. Sustainable improvements must be strategic continuous and focused on process optimization. Modern-day manufacturing is rapidly changing in the face of technological geopolitical social and environmental developments. These challenges are altering the way we think and act to transform raw materials into finished goods. Meeting these challenges requires particular attention to how we develop and engage people and apply technology for long-term sustainability and competitive advantage. This book takes you on a journey to explore the fundamental elements management practices improvement methods and future direction of shop floor management. Part 1 of this five-part book considers workplace culture organizational structure operational discipline and employee accountability as the foundation for a robust manufacturing system. Part 2 studies the impact of process standardization data analytics information sharing communication and people on daily shop floor management. Once the management system has been adequately described Part 3 concentrates on its effective execution monitoring and control with a deep look into the people methods machines materials and environment that make it possible. Like every good manufacturing text efficiency and productivity are key topics. That’s why Part 4 explores various methods tools and techniques associated with product and process development productivity improvement agile methods shop floor optimization and manufacturing excellence. The final section Part 5 shifts focus to emerging technologies engaging the reader to contemplate technology’s impact on the digital transformation of the manufacturing industry. | Fundamentals of Daily Shop Floor Management A Guide for Manufacturing Optimization and Excellence

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Nursing and Informatics for the 21st Century - Embracing a Digital World 3rd Edition Book 3 Innovation Technology and Applied Informatic

Nursing and Informatics for the 21st Century - Embracing a Digital World 3rd Edition Book 3 Innovation Technology and Applied Informatic

Innovation Technology and Applied Informatics for Nurses explores informatics trends emerging over the next decade including personalized healthcare telehealth artificial intelligence voice recognition and predictive analytics. Emphasis is placed on their importance benefits and key challenges for nurses. Digital health and patient-generated data in the context of remote monitoring are highlighted with a focus on digital health tools issues challenges and implications for the future. A featured case study includes the use of patient-generated data during the COVID-19 pandemic including critical lessons learned. A discussion of the technological building blocks of sensors and the Internet of Things highlights examples of how healthcare delivery system models of care are being transformed. Applied data science as an emerging healthcare discipline explores natural language processing data science frameworks implications for data bias and ethical considerations. The conceptual building blocks of artificial intelligence and machine learning are outlined resulting in a call for all nurses to develop an improved understanding of implications for our practice and our patients. Telehealth is described as including modalities services virtual care human factors and financial legal and regulatory considerations. Key drivers and stakeholders advancing simulation-based care delivery are discussed including recommendations for how healthcare organizations can perform event simulation as they prepare to meet the risk management needs of the future. This book concludes by highlighting documentation best practices implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nursing and Informatics for the 21st Century – Embracing a Digital World 3rd Edition is comprised of four books which can be purchased individually: Book 1: Realizing Digital Health – Bold Challenges and Opportunities for Nursing Book 2: Nursing Education and Digital Health Strategies Book 3: Innovation Technology and Applied Informatics for Nurses Book 4: Nursing in an Integrated Digital World that Supports People Systems and the Planet | Nursing and Informatics for the 21st Century - Embracing a Digital World 3rd Edition Book 3 Innovation Technology and Applied Informatic

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