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From Library Journal
In this sequel to his popular business/quality management book, Kaizen: The Key to Japan’s Competitive Success (1986), Imai offers a step forward?continuous improvement (kaizen) applied to the concept of continuous improvement in the workplace (gemba). The book reflects a definite operations bias. Indeed, [...]
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“Long-term commitment to new learning and new philosophy is required of any management that seeks transformation. The timid and the fainthearted, and the people that expect quick results, are doomed to disappointment.” According to W. Edwards Deming, American companies require nothing less than a [...]
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Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit Mary Poppendieck Tom Poppendieck Forewords by Jim Highsmithand Ken Schwaber *Adapting agile practices to your development organization *Uncovering and eradicating waste throughout the software development lifecycle *Practical techniques for every development manager, project manager, and technical leaderLean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit Lean [...]
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The Breakthrough Program for Increasing Quality, Shortening Cycle Times, and Creating Shareholder Value In Every Area of Your Organization Time and quality are the two most important metrics in improving any company’s production and profit performance. Lean Six Sigma explains how to impact your company’s performance [...]
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A must-read for leader’s who demand excellence in the development of new products. –President, Lockheed Martin Aeronoautics Company
The author provides great insight into the Toyota product development process and how the principles can be adapted to any business environment in any culture. –Richard Pearson, President, [...]
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From Publishers Weekly
Firms that take ideas seriously take their employees’ thinking seriously, and employees who think are employees who are alive. Thus argue Robinson and Schroeder, management academics and corporate creativity consultants. Ideas are the life force of corporations, they say, and managers who recognize [...]
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Hitchhikers do not travel a fixed path. They intentionally wander so they can learn and grow along the way. Embarking on the lean journey is similar, there are many roads on which to wander and no single one is right for all. “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Lean: Lessons from the Road” [...]
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Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company, lays out the secret of his success in My Life and Work. Born in 1863, Ford was a machinist and engineer by trade, but made his name as an extraordinarily successful businessman who, more than any other individual, was responsible for bringing the [...]
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"We have been on our lean journey in manufacturing for some time now, and are expanding that success into our office environment and across administration for the entire company. We chose to begin with a requirement that all of our leaders create a value [...]
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‘Competitiveness is a notoriously slippery concept. This volume, featuring a galaxy of economic stars, lends some much-needed precision to the term and the debate over its determinants.’- Barry Eichengreen, University of California, Berkeley, US
This book raises the understanding of exchange rate dynamics and [...]
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