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Business & Management
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Undergraduate

The position of the medical sector as a growth market is opening new avenues for workers outside the traditional realm of healthcare, such as management engineers, IT professionals, and process improvement specialists. A guide for healthcare market entrants, this book equips new hires with the knowledge needed to navigate the business of medicine. It also provides a much-needed orientation to the broader healthcare work environment for those working in hospitals or as vendors and manufacturers. The author, editor of the American College of Health Executive’s Frontiers in Health Services Management , confronts challenges facing the industry as a whole, including finance, legal, regulatory, and workforce issues.
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Healthcare Management
Government
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Professional

In this unique volume, the author, a Toyota-trained expert, employs memorable stories from his own learning experiences to teach Toyota Production System principles. Organized according to the "Toyota House" model of Lean, the stories provide a framework for understanding. Each story is complemented by questions that encourage the reader to reflect on how each principle applies in their own business, process, or life. Each chapter includes a more detailed description of the tools and principles in the respective part of the house model. This compelling and sometimes humorous book helps bring the Toyota system to life.
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Quality Assurance & Total Quality Management
Industrial Engineering & Manufacturing
Lean Manufacturing
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COMPRESSION: Meeting the Challenges of Sustainability Through Vigorous Learning Enterprises sounds a clarion. Global crises are squeezing us from all directions and with or without our participation, change will occur. To implement the sort of changes that will allow civilization to prevail rather than merely endure requires a resourcefulness and ingenuity beyond any the world has ever employed. In this volume, Doc Hall shows us how to learn to learn more effectively both as individuals and organizations, and in terms of processes. He invites us to rethink our perpetual devotion to old ideals and welcome the shift in thinking that must be our first and immediate step.
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Business & Management
Lean Manufacturing
Economics & Policy
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For over 100 years, academic medical centers (AMCs) have been the bastion of medicine; providing outstanding care, incubating the discoveries that have improved health care around the world, and training the next generation of doctors and scientists. Delineating the issues that have lead to the current crisis in AMCs, this book provides a radically different model for achieving success. The model presents four intersecting spheres of action, each of which is necessary but none of which can stand alone. The book presents an in depth analysis of the issues and challenges facing AMCs and offers recommendations that allow them to achieve their core mission — the delivery of outstanding patient care.
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Healthcare Management
Government
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Value Stream Mapping for Healthcare Made Easy introduces readers to the simple but essential method from the Toyota Production System, the well-known Value Stream Map (VSM). It offers an easy to learn introduction to VSMs that will enable readers to look at any process with different eyes. It is a proven high-level view tool that can be used in evey aspect of healthcare to identify, understand, and improve processes. Information included illustrates the simplicity and completeness of the tool and describes its applications to staff communication, regulatory documentation, and activities of daily work. The book also highlights simple to use data collection and interpretation as part of the VSM process.
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Lean Manufacturing
Healthcare Management
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Professional

Designed for easy reference by people with busy schedules, this concise manual provides hospital board members and executives with practical guidance on how to become actively engaged in the transformation of their organization. It focuses on how the healthcare industry as a whole is transforming and stresses the importance of having board members who are able to provide leadership. The manual is ideal for orienting new board members and for providing experienced members with insight on key issues. It supplies questions to ask stakeholders that will facilitate engagement. Each chapter is organized around action steps designed to build organizational quality and facilitate change.
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Quality Assurance & Total Quality Management
Healthcare Management
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Developed by a plant manager who experienced the challenges to going green, Green Intentions shows how the green value stream provides a dynamic approach to making green improvements. It defines each of the seven green wastes, explains the overall green value stream process, demonstrates how to map your green value stream, and provides guidance on implementation. Its practical approach shows how to realize initial savings from green initiatives so as to gain the support and momentum needed to eliminate all green wastes, leading to environmental sustainability as well as substantial business benefits, including new customers, improved employee retention, and increased revenues.
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Lean Manufacturing
Economics & Policy
Sustainable Engineering
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Professional

Incorporating principles of lean manufacturing and the rules and behaviors of structured innovation into the development process, innovative lean development unleashes the creativity of all involved in developing new products, services, or processes; speeds development; and leads to higher quality. Applying its principles, the authors have helped teams cut development time in half and increase speed to market, while delivering award-winning quality solutions. In this book, they share those examples while providing a road map that all companies can follow to reach a lean development culture.
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Lean Manufacturing
Engineering Project Management
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Professional

A Tale of Two Systems: Lean and Agile Software Development for Business Leaders reviews two fictional systems development projects. One project proves to be an abject and expensive failure, while the other succeeds in creating a major new revenue stream and solving important customer needs. Contrasting the methods employed in a traditional, process-centric 'waterfall' approach, with a lean and agile-inspired approach, this book provides business leaders with a tangible understanding of why lean thinking is so well-suited to contemporary environments requiring flexibility, speed, and the input of specialized knowledge.
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Databases
Management of IT
Lean Manufacturing
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