Quality Control category: 855 books
Eating the IT Elephant
Moving from Greenfield Development to Brownfield
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2008
A Practical, Start-to-Finish Approach to Managing, Evolving, and Transforming Legacy IT Systems For every IT executive, manager, architect, program leader, project leader, and lead analyst “Richard and Kevin introduce us to a reality that’s often neglected in our industry: the problem...
The Greening of IT
How Companies Can Make a Difference for the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2009
Ho> For CEOs, CIOs, CFOs, and IT leaders: The green IT business case and best practices for making it happen Timely help for companies facing rising energy costs, new government rules, and growing public concern Powerful new insights from IBM’s breakthrough $1 billion green computing initiative...
Lean Culture for the Construction Industry
Building Responsible and Committed Project Teams, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Many of the struggles that we are currently experiencing when attempting to implement Lean in the construction environment are the direct result of applying Lean tools out of proper context. Understanding Lean as an overall operating system will help to avert this all too common pitfall.
An...
by H. William Dettmer
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2010
The definitive guide to the theory of constraints In this authoritative volume, the world's top Theory of Constraints (TOC) experts reveal how to implement the ground-breaking management and improvement methodology developed by Dr. Eliyahu M. Goldratt. Theory of Constraints Handbook offers an in-depth...
Project Feasibility
Tools for Uncovering Points of Vulnerability
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
This book presents a set of tools that will aid in deciding whether a project should go ahead, be improved, or abandoned altogether by pinpointing its vulnerabilities. It offers a review of project feasibility analysis, and more critically, psychodynamic aspects that are often neglected, including...
Reaching The Goal
How Managers Improve a Services Business Using Goldratt's Theory of Constraints
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2007
“There is no doubt that this is a truly original and groundbreaking work in applying the Theory of Constraints. I run a services company and learned some things about the services business. Anyone involved in large services companies needs to look at what John is proposing. I will definitely quote...
Lean Demand-Driven Procurement
How to Apply Lean Thinking to Your Supply Management Processes
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2018
While there are many books written on the basics of the "supply" side of the supply chain (i.e. strategic sourcing, sourcing/procurement, and purchasing), there hasn’t been much written on those areas from a Lean perspective. Considering that supply chain costs, primarily procurement and transportation,...
Beyond the Lean Office
A Novel on Progressing from Lean Tools to Operational Excellence
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
While more and more companies are aggressively pursuing Operational Excellence by employing Six Sigma, Lean, and other continuous improvement methods, the concept has yet to be defined in a way that can be easily taught and applied, especially in industries other than manufacturing. This book fills...
Deadly Encounters
how infectious disease helped shape Australia
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
This book is written from an interdisciplinary perspective combining elements of Medical Demography, Public Health, History and Geography. There is much we have to learn from past epidemic encounters and how society responded to such crises.
Recent outbreaks of Swine Flu, Avian Flu and now...
by Charlene Spoede Budd, Janice Cerveny
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2010
The definitive guide to the theory of constraints In this authoritative volume, the world's top Theory of Constraints (TOC) experts reveal how to implement the ground-breaking management and improvement methodology developed by Dr. Eliyahu M. Goldratt. Theory of Constraints Handbook offers an in-depth...
by Kathy Suerken
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2010
The purpose of this chapter is to convey how the TOC thinking and communication tools are being used to enable students of all ages and cultures to take responsibility for what they learn and how they behave. These logic based tools provide the questions and methodology for learners to systematically...
by Kai Yang, Basem S. EI-Haik
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2008
Here is a chapter from an updated Design for Six Sigma, Second Edition, which has extensive new chapters and learning modules on innovation, lean product development, computer simulation, and critical parameter management--plus new thread-through case studies. This updated edition provides unrivalled...
The Lean Brain Theory
Complex Networked Lean Strategic Organizational Design
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
The most complex organization known in the universe is inside of our heads: our brain. Because organizations are formed by human beings, The Lean Brain Theory aims to mimic human brain structure and functionality so as to enable the emergence of brain-like organizations in which the 'neurons' are...
by Edward A. Silver, David F. Pyke, Douglas J. Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
Authored by a team of experts, the new edition of this bestseller presents practical techniques for managing inventory and production throughout supply chains. It covers the current context of inventory and production management, replenishment systems for managing individual inventories within a firm,...