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This informational guide will is an excellent read for those ready to jolt their team out of the everyday work routine, and get them shaken up and working together! With examples, testimonials, and explanations, your team can come together as one to make your workplace a trusting, and productive environment.
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As customers or consumers, we expect quality products and quality services, getting value for our money. For producers or service providers, it is a challenge to satisfy customers and also take care of other stakeholders. In the last few decades we have seen several quality models and frameworks. Organizations see another challenge in implementing those frameworks effectively. Three basic parameters of quality are products (technology), processes...
4) Kaizen
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Understanding Kaizen, knowing when to use Kaizen, and performing end to end Kaizen project has never been easier!
Have you ever wanted to perform Kaizen project, exercise, or event on your company's processes?
Have you ever wanted to perform Kaizen project, exercise, or event on your customer's processes?
Have you ever wanted to identify wastes, achieve cost savings, cost reductions, and cost leadership in your company?
If the anwer to any of these...
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Change can be hard. It is often difficult to conceive performing tasks in a different order, in a different place, at a different time, or in a different manner altogether. And this is only for the individual. When we talk about organizational change the difficulty increases exponentially with each individual that is added to the equation.
This book uses as its basis a fable — the story is not untrue, but it is not fact either. It is a story in...
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You've been trained and tested and you've been successful. Now, where will you take it from here?
This book is intended for the Green Belt or anybody who has attended Six Sigma training and has been coached through a complete project, and who now wants to or needs to step out on their own and manage improvement projects without a dedicated coach.
For a Green Belt, it is probable that the first project was coached by another Six Sigma practitioner,...
7) Agile Project Management: Learn the Most Important Concepts and Tools of Agile Project Management
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Learn the most important concepts and tools for Agile project management.
Things you will learn: Learn the fundamentals of Agile project management. Learn how to use Agile for the right projects. You will learn the key concepts of Agile development, Agile project delivery, and Agile project management. You will understand the differences between Agile and traditional project delivery (other methodologies) Understand the impact that Agile and Lean...
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Measure and improve your company's performance
This book is a practical and accessible guide to understanding and implementing benchmarking, providing you with the essential information and saving time.
In 50 minutes you will be able to:
• Understand the different types of benchmarking and choose the best one for your company
• Catch up with the competition by comparing their processes to your own and identifying the best practices
• Use...
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Understanding value streams, mapping current and future state value streams, and performing end to end value stream mapping exercise has never been easier!
Have you ever wanted to perform value stream mapping exercise on your company's processes?
Have you ever wanted to perform value stream mapping exercise on your customer's processes?
Have you ever wanted to identify wastes, achieve cost savings, cost reductions, and cost leadership in your company?
If...
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A comprehensive guide for Quality Management Principles Quality Management Systems (QMS) is a globally recognized standard to manage systems, processes, and resources, effectively and efficiently. Incorporating the Seven Principles of Quality Management is essential to drive the leadership, culture, and achieve business excellence. This book draws bodies of knowledge of management methodologies, principles, business models, frameworks, and case studies...
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The Right Phrase for the Right Situation-Every Time
You've taken the GMAT, your transcript is in order, and you're ready to apply to business schools. Your personal statement and the interview are your major opportunity to distinguish yourself from the pack and demonstrate your full potential. Perfect Phrases for Business School Acceptance gives you the phrases, statements, and approaches that will help you write a compelling essay, succeed at the...
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¿Su negocio o la empresa en la que labora se ha enfrentado a problemas tales como: retrasos en las entregas de producto, errores en los procesos de producción, accidentes y áreas de trabajo sucias y desorganizadas? ¿Sabía que el secreto de tener un negocio productivo está en la limpieza y el orden con que se trabaje?
El proceso de las 5's en acción. La metodología japonesa para mejorar la calidad y la productividad de cualquier tipo de empresa,...
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This guide is intended to help everyone in a service organization participate in creating and sustaining a foundation of integrity, meet requirements and customer expectations, and support robust processes, to the advantage of everyone in the organization and to each of its customers.
It provides a simplified explanation of the clauses of ISO 9001:2015, including:
What's required
Why to do it
Implementation tips
Questions to ask to assess conformity
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The true qualities of leadership
In many leadership books, the lessons have come from overseas studies and examples. From a New Zealand point of view it is easy to find concurring examples in our own industry. This has led to an interesting question. Where do we differ? The answer is simple—our culture.
Our culture is influenced by the large number of different races that make up our work force. New Zealand has an abundance of Polynesian employees...
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This guide is intended to help everyone in an organization participate in creating and sustaining a foundation of integrity, meet requirements and customer expectations, and support robust processes, to the advantage of everyone in the organization and to each of its customers.
It provides a simplified explanation of the clauses of ISO 9001:2015, including+G429:G439:
What's required
Why to do it
Implementation tips
Questions to ask to assess conformity
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The standard tells you what to implement, this book focuses on how and why.
Many organizations implement ISO 9001 and see only mild improvements. This book is a collection of concepts that can assist you in implementing a very successful ISO 9001 quality management system. Its concepts go beyond the basic implementation steps so widely available in the marketplace, instead helping you to use the ISO 9001 standard as a tool for organizational growth...
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Six Sigma Black Belts are expected to have the skills of a good experimenter, possessing both a deep understanding of statistics and a knowledge of the industry in which they work. This book is written for the Six Sigma Black Belt who needs an understanding of many statistical methods but does not use all of these methods every day. It is intended to be used as a quick reference, providing basic details and formulas.
The methods presented here are...
18) Credit Scoring
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"Credit Scoring" is an in-depth book that explores the fascinating world of credit scores and how they shape various industries. It's a guide that dives deep into the definition, history, and significance of credit scoring, revealing how these numbers are much more than just figures; they're powerful tools in decision-making. From the finance sector to healthcare, retail, and even beyond traditional areas like telecommunications and government services,...
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Each of us has our own set of dangers (things we're afraid of losing), opportunities (the possibility of gaining something), and strengths (our unique skills and experience). I call these our "D.O.S." issues, and I'll show you how to use them every day as your key to never-ending growth.
This also gives you a repeatable way to gain insight into what matters most to your clients and prospects, and cultivate a growth-focused relationship with them....
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Process Improvement Simplified is written for leaders and managers of organizations or enterprises who:
Are struggling with their organization's success
Are not satisfied with the current state
Are striving to be number one
Have heard about the negatives or positives of process improvement (PI) but have never implemented it
But PI is not a panacea, it takes leadership commitment and involvement, plus organizational behavior modification so that PI...
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