Productivity Press imprint: 189 books
by Ronald Blank
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2018
Using language that is easy to understand, Cross-Functional Productivity Improvement describes how improvement efforts can be undermined by errors and incompleteness. It illustrates the various types of errors that can hurt productivity and outlines proven solutions to prevent or correct them. Explaining...
Productivity Improvement in Manufacturing SMEs
Application of Work Study
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
This book focuses on the application of workstudy in productivity of manufacturing SMEs locally and abroad and also explores various industrial problems which face manufacturing SMEs in developing and underdeveloped countries in the rest of the world. Low productivity is currently a serious challenge...
Lean Production for Competitive Advantage
A Comprehensive Guide to Lean Methodologies and Management Practices, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Lean Production for Competitive Advantage: A Comprehensive Guide to Lean Methodologies and Management Practices, Second Edition introduces Lean philosophy and illustrates the effective application of Lean tools with real-world case studies. From fundamental concepts to integrated planning and control...
Hospital Economics
A Primer on Resource Allocation to Improve Productivity & Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
The biggest issue of economics in a hospital are the resource issues. A resource issue in hospitals creates many problems such as the excessive number of patients, poor service quality, lack of diagnostic tools and equipment, dirty and worn out facilities, long queues at the outpatient clinic, lack...
Faster, Better, Cheaper in the History of Manufacturing
From the Stone Age to Lean Manufacturing and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
The industrial revolution, mechanization, water and steam power, computers, and automation have given an enormous boost to manufacturing productivity. "Faster, Better, Cheaper" in the History of Manufacturing shows how the ability to make products faster, better, and cheaper has evolved...
True Kaizen
Management's Role in Improving Work Climate and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
What does it take to manage an organization to success? No matter what industry you are in, an organization is primarily a group of people. This book focuses on that ever-important human element. In the rush to get 'lean', many organizations focus solely on tools for increasing productivity, but where...
Manufacturing Cost Policy Deployment (MCPD) Transformation
Uncovering Hidden Reserves of Profitability
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
Achieving a long-term acceptable level of manufacturing profitability through productivity requires the total commitment of management teams and all staff in any manufacturing company and beyond.
Awareness and continuous improvement of manufacturing costs behind losses and waste is the core...
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...
Change Rx for Healthcare
Your Prescription for Leading Change
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Everywhere you look in healthcare, disruptive changes are emerging, yet the pressure to keep productivity up is ever-present. There are ways to minimize disruption and make adoption stick.
Change Rx for Healthcare: Your Prescription for Leading Change showcases a case study of a large, transformational...
Innovative Change Management (ICM)
Preparing Your Organization for the New Innovative Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
Innovative Change Management (ICM) represents the accumulated wisdom and knowledge of one of the world’s foremost performance improvement specialists. It includes a clear and thorough explanation of the necessary critical tools for creating a system that results in a much higher percentage of your...
The Logics of Healthcare
The Professional’s Guide to Health Systems Science
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2018
Most of the current literature on healthcare operations management is focused on importing principles and methods from manufacturing. The evidence of success is scattered and nowhere near what has been achieved in other industries. This book develops the idea that the logic of production, and production...
New Giants Rising
How Leaders Can Help People and Companies Grow During the Followership Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
The greatest concern for all Americans today - leaders and followers alike – is how their prosperity seems to depend on a shrinking foundation of technology-only growth. And the onset of artificial intelligence only threatens to marginalize people even more with job loss and increasing isolation...
Building a Lean Service Enterprise
Reflections of a Lean Management Practitioner
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
This book provides an assorted set of reflections/lessons from the "trenches" of Lean service and brings to fore leadership challenges, new tools, and the known-unknowns (insights that very few know but many in journey of Lean transformation need to know). Lean has the ability to address...
Manufacturing Cost Policy Deployment (MCPD) Profitability Scenarios
Systematic and Systemic Improvement of Manufacturing Costs
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
This book shows how to consistently obtain annual and multiannual manufacturing target profit regardless of the evolution of sales volumes, increasing or decreasing, using the Manufacturing Cost Policy Deployment (MCPD) system. Managers and practitioners within the manufacturing companies will discover...