Productivity Press imprint: 189 books
by Norton Paley
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
Harnessing the power of technology is one of the key measures of effective leadership. Leadership Strategies in the Age of Big Data, Algorithms, and Analytics will help leaders think and act like strategists to maintain a leading-edge competitive advantage. Written by a leading expert in the field, this...
The Quick Changeover Playbook
A Step-by-Step Guideline for the Lean Practitioner
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Complete with color pictures from real quick changeover implementations, The Quick Changeover Playbook provides detailed step-by-step guidelines on how to reduce setup times as well as improve flexibility, product quality, and visual control while reducing lead times and costs.
This new book...
The Global Quality Management System
Improvement Through Systems Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
The Global Quality Management System: Improvement Through Systems Thinking shows you how to understand and implement a global quality management system (GQMS) to achieve world-class business excellence. It illustrates the business excellence pyramid with the foundation of management systems at the...
The Psychology of Lean Improvements
Why Organizations Must Overcome Resistance and Change the Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2012
Fear of change—we all experience it. Some accept change immediately, some gradually adapt, while others may never get there. Whether it’s poor leadership, the inability to change, or pure ego, this Shingo Prize-winning book explores this perplexing commitment to inefficiency.
Winner of...
by Dr.Gregory C. McLaughlin, Dr. William R. Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Innovation Project Management Handbook provides organizational leaders and decision-makers with a cadre of agile, disciplined, and transformational tools and processes for improving innovation opportunity outcomes and achieving sustained innovation project success. The authors introduce new tools...
Hospital Reimbursement
Concepts and Principles
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
Due to the countless variables that affect revenue and cost, the hospital reimbursement process is by far the most complex of any industry. Requiring only a basic financial background and a working knowledge of accounting, Hospital Reimbursement: Concepts and Principles supplies a clear understanding...
Understanding A3 Thinking
A Critical Component of Toyota's PDCA Management System
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2008
Winner of a 2009 Shingo Research and Professional Publication Prize. Notably flexible and brief, the A3 report has proven to be a key tool In Toyota‘s successful move toward organizational efficiency, effectiveness, and improvement, especially within its engineering and R&D organizations. The power of the A3 report, however, derives not from th
The Practitioner's Guide to POLCA
The Production Control System for High-Mix, Low-Volume and Custom Products
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
POLCA (Paired-cell Overlapping Loops of Cards with Authorization) is a card-based visual control system that manages the flow of jobs through the shop floor: at each operation, it controls which job should be worked on next to meet delivery targets. POLCA ensures that upstream operations use their...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Leading Reliable Healthcare describes ‘state of the art’ healthcare management systems. The key focus of the publication is ‘reliable’; describing how leadership can ensure never less than reliable standards of care for patients and how excellence can be achieved. The focus throughout is on...
Leading the Lean Healthcare Journey
Driving Culture Change to Increase Value, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
This book reveals and describes the leadership and culture change required to remove waste from healthcare processes and eliminate the root cause of soaring costs, poor quality and safety, and limited access. The book's delivery strategy revolves around personal and organizational stories and case...
The Hoshin Kanri Forest
Lean Strategic Organizational Design
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Strategic Lean management efforts significantly fail because leaders often lack a map of their organizations. Written in a colloquial manner, The Hoshin Kanri Forest is for Lean practitioners who seek to design organizational structures that functionally support the dynamics associated with Lean...
The GuruBook
Insights from 45 Pioneering Entrepreneurs and Leaders on Business Strategy and Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
The GuruBook is an inspiring collection of 45 articles and interviews with well-known thought leaders and entrepreneurs, whose leadership and strategic skills have resulted in very successful businesses. These renowned leaders, entrepreneurs, and innovators have tested their visions and assumptions...
Toyota’s Global Marketing Strategy
Innovation through Breakthrough Thinking and Kaizen
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2017
There are many books on the market that discuss the Toyota Production System but few that insightfully analyze its marketing strategy. Authored by former Toyota marketing executives, this is the first book of its kind to detail how Toyota’s thinking habits go beyond the shop floor and influence...
by Gregory L. Alexander, PhD, RN
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2018
A multiplicity of factors converging together suggest the LTPAC provider community (e.g. nursing homes, behavioral health facilities, home health agencies, etc.) will elevate in importance within the healthcare ecosystem during the next few years. The challenge for many LTPAC providers in this emerging...