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Speed-Based Target Profit Planning and Developing Synchronous Profitable Operations

Speed-Based Target Profit Planning and Developing Synchronous Profitable Operations

Profitable production planning is and will remain an eternal challenge to ensuring the prosperity and dignity of companies in a global market. Even though there are different approaches to achieving the target profitability through productivity in the production planning stage these approaches do not guarantee consistent planning creation and sustenance of synchronous profitable operations for multiannual and annual target profit. In feedback to this predicament Alin Posteucă develops a new system called speed-based target profit (SBTP). SBTP is the profitable production management and manufacturing improvement system that approaches production planning to achieve unit speed of target profit for target products through manufacturing cost improvement and bottleneck profitability control for maximum takt time. Managers and practitioners within manufacturing companies will discover a practical approach for cost down and cash up by applying a powerful operational profitable production planning formula to meet profitability expectations through productivity based on strong leadership with the help of a specific system for feedforward concurrent and feedback control. Therefore the SBTP system in this book presents a holistic approach to profitability for target products and the development of its own mechanism since the acceptance of each order from customers to achieve continuous synchronization of all manufacturing processes to market requirements profitability management and profitable production planning. The uniqueness of the book is reinforced by a detailed presentation of the successful application of the SBTP system in two case studies as a way of life and a unit speed of target profit improvement ethos at all hierarchical levels in two multinational manufacturing companies operating in highly competitive markets in order to address the synchronous profitable operations for both the sales increase scenario and the sales decrease scenario. By adopting the SBTP system your company will be able to consistently achieve unit speed of target profit in the bottleneck process for fulfilling annual and multiannual target profit as a unique and effective way through a new profitable production planning paradigm that operates according to its own production system. | Speed-Based Target Profit Planning and Developing Synchronous Profitable Operations

GBP 29.99
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Medical-Grade Software Development How to Build Medical-Device Products That Meet the Requirements of IEC 62304 and ISO 13485

Medical-Grade Software Development How to Build Medical-Device Products That Meet the Requirements of IEC 62304 and ISO 13485

This book is a practical guide to meeting IEC 62304 software-development requirements within the context of an ISO 13485 quality management system (QMS). The book proves this can be done with a minimum amount of friction overlap and back-and-forth between development stages. It essentially shows you how you should shape your medical-software development processes to fit in with the QMS processes in the smartest and leanest way possible. By following the advice in this book you can reuse processes from your QMS ensure your product-realization processes meet the requirements for medical-software development and marry all the requirements together using tried and tested solutions into one efficient system. The expertise of the authors here goes beyond just the experiences of one real-world project as they tap into over 30 years of experience and countless software and software-assessment projects to distill their advice. The book takes a hands-on approach by first teaching you the top 25 lessons to know before starting to develop a process for medical-software development. It then walks you through the expectations placed on the key aspects of such a process by the key standards. The book progresses from an overview of both standards and the general requirements involved to a detailed discussion of the expected stages from software development and maintenance to risk management configuration management and problem resolution. The book provides insightful advice on how the requirements of the IEC 62304 software-development life cycle can be married with an ISO 13485 QMS how the development of the technical file should be organized and how to address conformity assessment the daily after-approval and the recent trends that will affect the industry in the coming years. The book is modeled after the IEC 62304 standard and adopts its clause structure in the numbering of sections for easy reference. The book does not attempt to replicate either standard. For the ISO 13485 standard it recites the necessary requirements succinctly. For IEC 62304 the discussion is in-depth and also addresses the impact of ISO 13485 on the requirements discussed. In this way the book drills into both standards to expose the core of each requirement and shape these into a practical cohesive workflow for developing maintaining and improving a Lean software development pipeline. | Medical-Grade Software Development How to Build Medical-Device Products That Meet the Requirements of IEC 62304 and ISO 13485

GBP 45.99
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Continuous Improvement in Higher Education How to Begin Your Institution’s Lean Journey

Continuous Improvement in Higher Education How to Begin Your Institution’s Lean Journey

Is your college or university struggling with how to adapt to budget cuts changing student needs technology or regulatory changes? Do you have a program or staff assigned to help coordinate change efforts? Are you ready to become more proactive in how you react to the changes that affect your institution? Structured continuous process-improvement programs have benefitted manufacturing companies for decades but what works in manufacturing does not work the same way in education! This book written by a higher education Lean practitioner using real examples from higher education shows you how to create a continuous-improvement program specifically for higher education It walks you through the key steps for building your first-year continuous-improvement plan. It provides templates checklists and best practices to assist in your planning process. Whether you are a Lean novice or a current Lean/continuous-improvement practitioner this book will add tools to your tool kit and lay the groundwork for successful change initiatives. | Continuous Improvement in Higher Education How to Begin Your Institution’s Lean Journey

GBP 31.99
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Nursing and Informatics for the 21st Century - Embracing a Digital World 3rd Edition Book 3 Innovation Technology and Applied Informatic

Nursing and Informatics for the 21st Century - Embracing a Digital World 3rd Edition Book 3 Innovation Technology and Applied Informatic

Innovation Technology and Applied Informatics for Nurses explores informatics trends emerging over the next decade including personalized healthcare telehealth artificial intelligence voice recognition and predictive analytics. Emphasis is placed on their importance benefits and key challenges for nurses. Digital health and patient-generated data in the context of remote monitoring are highlighted with a focus on digital health tools issues challenges and implications for the future. A featured case study includes the use of patient-generated data during the COVID-19 pandemic including critical lessons learned. A discussion of the technological building blocks of sensors and the Internet of Things highlights examples of how healthcare delivery system models of care are being transformed. Applied data science as an emerging healthcare discipline explores natural language processing data science frameworks implications for data bias and ethical considerations. The conceptual building blocks of artificial intelligence and machine learning are outlined resulting in a call for all nurses to develop an improved understanding of implications for our practice and our patients. Telehealth is described as including modalities services virtual care human factors and financial legal and regulatory considerations. Key drivers and stakeholders advancing simulation-based care delivery are discussed including recommendations for how healthcare organizations can perform event simulation as they prepare to meet the risk management needs of the future. This book concludes by highlighting documentation best practices implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nursing and Informatics for the 21st Century – Embracing a Digital World 3rd Edition is comprised of four books which can be purchased individually: Book 1: Realizing Digital Health – Bold Challenges and Opportunities for Nursing Book 2: Nursing Education and Digital Health Strategies Book 3: Innovation Technology and Applied Informatics for Nurses Book 4: Nursing in an Integrated Digital World that Supports People Systems and the Planet | Nursing and Informatics for the 21st Century - Embracing a Digital World 3rd Edition Book 3 Innovation Technology and Applied Informatic

GBP 69.99
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Innovative Lean Development How to Create Implement and Maintain a Learning Culture Using Fast Learning Cycles

Innovative Lean Development How to Create Implement and Maintain a Learning Culture Using Fast Learning Cycles

Innovation is the engine that drives much of what is called success in business and industry. Incorporating the fundamental principles of lean manufacturing and the rules and behaviors of structured innovation into the development process innovative lean development unleashes the creativity of everyone involved in developing new products services or processes; speeds the process; and leads to higher quality. Written by two experts who have successfully made the road by walking it for more than 20 years Innovative Lean Development: How to Create Implement and Maintain a Learning Culture Using Fast Learning Cycles focuses on six key areas necessary for dramatic development. It shows you how to 1. Identify and fill user gaps 2. Use multiple learning cycles 3. Stabilize the development process 4. Capture knowledge 5. Use rapid prototyping 6. Apply lean management principles including learning cycles and visual boards Applying these principles the authors have helped development teams cut development time in half and increase speed to market while delivering award-winning quality solutions. In this manual they share those examples while providing a road map that all companies can follow to reach a lean development culture one where creative thinking and practice converge in ways that lead to innovation improvement and success. | Innovative Lean Development How to Create Implement and Maintain a Learning Culture Using Fast Learning Cycles

GBP 170.00
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The Power of Humility in Leadership Influencing as a Role Model

The Power of Humility in Leadership Influencing as a Role Model

To many people the words ‘leader’ and ‘humble’ are not natural bedfellows. Yet once they have grasped the definition most employees desire a humble leader while a majority of managers believe they already are one. What appears deceptively simple is trickier than expected. Narcissism lack of perception fixed mindsets and neuronal default settings are only a few of the stumbling blocks on the path to humility. What exactly is this sought-after humility? Humility consists of four key elements: 1) Seeing one’s own strength and weaknesses and revealing them where needed for the bigger picture; 2) Appreciating others for what they are do now and can do; 3) Being open and willing to learn; 4) Understanding that we are all only a small part of a larger picture easily replaceable and favored by luck and circumstance. Therefore humility has nothing to do with being weak or hiding the light under the bushel. Instead it is about clarity taking a step back from one’s ego and thus being able to serve the greater picture. The author’s own research with more than 3 500 managers contributes to the canon of positive effects of humility that have been measured by dozens of researchers during the last decade. Humility benefits employees (ranging from better performance more innovation stronger resilience to better client relations and stronger morals) the organization (ranging from better ambidextrous strategies a better culture to fewer sunk costs) and the managers themselves (ranging from more seen leadership potential to less stress and better relationships with employees). Dozens of case studies quotes from more than 170 interviews with top managers lively storytelling of real-life examples and solid research with actionable take-aways plus personal assessments make this an eminently readable and practical book for managers worldwide. | The Power of Humility in Leadership Influencing as a Role Model

GBP 32.99
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Hospital Capacity Management Insights and Strategies

Hospital Capacity Management Insights and Strategies

Hospital Capacity Management: Insights and Strategies details many of the key processes procedures and administrative realities that make up the healthcare system we all encounter when we visit the ED or the hospital. It walks through in detail how these systems work how they came to be this way why they are set up as they are and then in many cases why and how they should be improved right now. Many examples pulled from the lifelong experiences of the authors published studies and well-documented case studies are provided both to illustrate and support arguments for change. First and foremost it is necessary to remember that the mission of our healthcare system is to take care of patients. This has been forgotten at times causing many of the issues the authors discuss in the book including hospital capacity management. This facet of healthcare management is absolutely central to the success or failure of a hospital both in terms of its delivery of care and its ability to survive as an institution. Poor hospital capacity management is a root cause of long wait times overcrowding higher error rates poor communication low satisfaction and a host of other commonly experienced problems. It is important enough that when it is done well it can completely transform an entire hospital system. Hospital capacity management can be described as optimizing a hospital’s bed availability to provide enough capacity for efficient error-free patient evaluation treatment and transfer to meet daily demand. A hospital that excels at capacity management is easy to spot: no lines of people waiting and no patients in hallways or sitting around in chairs. These hospitals don’t divert incoming ambulances to other hospitals; they have excellent patient safety records and efficiently move patients through their organization. They exist but are sadly in the minority of American hospitals. The vast majority are instead forced to constantly react to their own poor performance. This often results in the building of bigger and bigger institutions which instead of managing capacity simply create more space in which to mismanage it. These institutions are failing to resolve the true stumbling blocks to excellent patient care many of which you may have experienced firsthand in your own visit to your hospital. It is the hope of the authors that this book will provide a better understanding of the healthcare delivery system. | Hospital Capacity Management Insights and Strategies

GBP 39.99
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Disruptive Leadership Apple and the Technology of Caring Deeply-Nine Keys to Organizational Excellence and Global Impact

Disruptive Leadership Apple and the Technology of Caring Deeply-Nine Keys to Organizational Excellence and Global Impact

Disruptive leadership is a topic generating intense interest. Companies all over the world are trying to upend their industry through innovative products and services. Becoming a disruptive organization however is easier said than done. Even more difficult is being a company that continually disrupts. Is it possible to discern a code for how companies can achieve this? In this highly readable and engaging book a disruptive leadership framework is proposed in which caring deeply is placed at the center of the model. By turning care into a focal point a triphasic model is proposed that moves from the personal sphere (individual) to the corporate arena (organizational) and then to the global stage (impact). Nine keys are identified along this path for how companies can realize organizational excellence. While care may seem like a soft concept in the rough and tumble world of business it is argued how it is actually an inspired manner for providing direction structure and know-how that leads to powerful outcomes. Apple is profiled as a leading example of leveraging what is termed the technology of caring deeply. Other companies such as Nike IKEA Zappos Starbucks are also profiled. Finally a leadership canvas is provided to help activate the lessons shared in the book. | Disruptive Leadership Apple and the Technology of Caring Deeply-Nine Keys to Organizational Excellence and Global Impact

GBP 24.99
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Renovating Healthcare IT Building the Foundation for Digital Transformation

Renovating Healthcare IT Building the Foundation for Digital Transformation

Healthcare IT is under tremendous pressure in today’s environment: Budgets are shrinking; staff are in short supply; cloud mobile and data are driving expansion and innovation. Consumer expectations are high while agility and speed to market for many HIT organizations is low. The exponential growth of data sources and the need to empower healthcare with data-driven intelligence is pushing capabilities. The words digital transformation are infused in just about every discussion and serve to amplify organizational expectations of IT. In this environment IT departments have to retool rethink and revise their way of operating. Few have the option of starting from scratch; the vast majority of organizations have built IT functions over decades. Now it’s time to remodel and renovate for the future. This book walks the reader through the process of determining what type of IT function they have today and what they’ll need tomorrow. It discusses how to assess and analyze IT capabilities and then develop and implement a plan to renovate in place. By retooling now the IT function can successfully meet the growing demands of the organization in the future. When approached in a planful manner this process of renovating can energize the entire organization and help foster innovation and transformation along the way. | Renovating Healthcare IT Building the Foundation for Digital Transformation

GBP 46.99
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Redefining Innovation Embracing the 80-80 Rule to Ignite Growth in the Biopharmaceutical Industry

Redefining Innovation Embracing the 80-80 Rule to Ignite Growth in the Biopharmaceutical Industry

Most people marvel at the level of innovation demonstrated by the biopharmaceutical industry in bringing new products to the market – especially in the past 20 years. However there is a crisis looming in the industry that should be a concern to all of us who take for granted the constant pace at which new treatments and increasingly cures have emerged from the laboratories of current sector incumbents. In the book we examine the evolution of the biopharmaceutical industry to understand how it became what we term a unicorn industry with a unique US-centered business model that has led to multiple blockbuster products (aka unicorns) year after year. We explore how past success has created perceived barriers to innovation diversification beyond the chemical or biological-based biopharmaceutical product and highlight the warning signs of the industry’s decline. We define a potential pathway for transforming the industry’s business model by broadening the definition sources and enablers of innovation beyond the traditional biopharmaceutical product. We introduce and advocate for the 80-80 Rule - Being 80% confident that you will only be 80% right the first time should feel normal. The 80-80 Rule is a theme that emphasizes speed and willingness to embrace uncertainty and overcome internal barriers to change. It sets the standard for redefining innovation as a platform to reignite growth of the biopharmaceutical industry. | Redefining Innovation Embracing the 80-80 Rule to Ignite Growth in the Biopharmaceutical Industry

GBP 31.99
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The Logics of Healthcare The Professional’s Guide to Health Systems Science

The Logics of Healthcare The Professional’s Guide to Health Systems Science

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 systems in healthcare is significantly different. A line of thing that acknowledges the ingenious characteristics of health service production is developed. This book builds on a managerial segmentation of healthcare based on fundamental demand-supply constellations. Demand can be classified with the variables urgency severity and randomness. Supply is constrained by medical technology (accuracy of diagnostics efficacy of therapies) patient health behavior (co-creation of health) and resource availability. Out of this emerge seven demand-supply-based operational types (DSO): prevention emergencies one-visit electives cure care and projects. Each of these have distinct managerial characteristics such as time-perspective level of co-creation value proposition revenue structure productivity and other key performance indicators (KPI). The DSOs can be envisioned as platforms upon which clinical modules are attached. For example any Emergency Department (ED) must be managed to deal with prioritization time-windows agitated patients the necessity to save and stabilize and variability in demand. Specific clinical assets and skill-sets are required for say massive trauma strokes cardiac events or poisoning. While representing different specialties of clinical medicine they when applied in the emergency – context must conform to the demand-supply-based operating logic. A basic assumption in this book is that the perceived complexity of healthcare arises from the conflicting demands of the DSO and the clinical realms. The seven DSOs can neatly be juxtaposed on the much-used Business Model Canvas (BMC) which postulates the business model elements as value proposition; customer segments channels and relations; key activities resources and partners; the cost structure; and the revenue model. | The Logics of Healthcare The Professional’s Guide to Health Systems Science

GBP 39.99
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Theory of Constraints Creative Problem Solving

Theory of Constraints Creative Problem Solving

This book was written to assist professionals and students to become proactive in their own education improve thinking resolve personal and interpersonal conflicts improve pedagogy manage departmental affairs and guide administrative decisions. The text captures the practical experience of the authors with and formal training in TOC to address many of the issues facing today’s education stakeholders. The text is designed to teach methods for 1) win-win conflict resolution 2) decision-making 3) problem solving and 4) analysis of systems using TOC’s powerful logic-based graphical Thinking Process tools. A creative thinker can identify plan and achieve his or her goals just knowing the Thinking Process Tools. | Theory of Constraints Creative Problem Solving

GBP 31.99
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Lean Daily Management for Healthcare Field Book

Lean Daily Management for Healthcare Field Book

This book gives healthcare leaders a practical guide to implementing the 4 key components of lean daily management system - 1. LDM boards; 2. Leadership rounds 3. Leader daily disciplines and 4. Lean projects. Although lean is not new to healthcare effective LDM is just now taking hold with the best lean healthcare organizations in the U. S. and Canada. Leaders are realizing that sustaining their lean projects over time has proven to be a challenge without first addressing the organizations management system/model. LDM gives leaders a straightforward approach to do just that as well as improve their ability to spread and deploy lean to other areas of the organization and tie back to strategy. | Lean Daily Management for Healthcare Field Book

GBP 175.00
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Job Shop Lean An Industrial Engineering Approach to Implementing Lean in High-Mix Low-Volume Production Systems

Job Shop Lean An Industrial Engineering Approach to Implementing Lean in High-Mix Low-Volume Production Systems

In the 1950’s the design and implementation of the Toyota Production System (TPS) within Toyota had begun. In the 1960’s Group Technology (GT) and Cellular Manufacturing (CM) were used by Serck Audco Valves a high-mix low-volume (HMLV) manufacturer in the United Kingdom to guide enterprise-wide transformation. In 1996 the publication of the book Lean Thinking introduced the entire world to Lean. Job Shop Lean integrates Lean with GT and CM by using the five Principles of Lean to guide its implementation: (1) identify value (2) map the value stream (3) create flow (4) establish pull and (5) seek perfection. Unfortunately the tools typically used to implement the Principles of Lean are incapable of solving the three Industrial Engineering problems that HMLV manufacturers face when implementing Lean: (1) finding the product families in a product mix with hundreds of different products (2) designing a flexible factory layout that fits hundreds of different product routings and (3) scheduling a multi-product multi-machine production system subject to finite capacity constraints. Based on the Author’s 20+ years of learning teaching researching and implementing Job Shop Lean since 1999 this book Describes the concepts tools software implementation methodology and barriers to successful implementation of Lean in HMLV production systems Utilizes Production Flow Analysis instead of Value Stream Mapping to eliminate waste in different levels of any HMLV manufacturing enterprise Solves the three Industrial Engineering problems that were mentioned earlier using software like PFAST (Production Flow Analysis and Simplification Toolkit) Sgetti and Schedlyzer Explains how the one-at-a-time implementation of manufacturing cells constitutes a long-term strategy for Continuous Improvement Explains how product families and manufacturing cells are the basis for implementing flexible automation machine monitoring virtual cells Manufacturing Execution Systems and other elements of Industry 4. 0 Teaches a new method Value Network Mapping to visualize large multi-product multi-machine production systems whose Value Streams share many processes Includes real success stories of Job Shop Lean implementation in a variety of production systems such as a forge shop a machine shop a fabrication facility and a shipping department Encourages any HMLV manufacturer planning to implement Job Shop Lean to leverage the co-curricular and extracurricular programs of an Industrial Engineering department | Job Shop Lean An Industrial Engineering Approach to Implementing Lean in High-Mix Low-Volume Production Systems

GBP 52.99
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True Kaizen Management's Role in Improving Work Climate and Culture

True Kaizen Management's Role in Improving Work Climate and Culture

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 do these tools come from? In this book Collin McLoughlin and Toshihiko Miura look back on their decades of international consulting experience to examine how organizations around the world have transformed on a cultural level by respecting the people who work within them and leveraging their creativity to solve problems. As our workforce becomes more knowledgeable skillful and more perceptive of their needs and wants as employees the ability to reach the true potential of an organization becomes more and more difficult. Managers must look at each individual element of an equation like this in order to fully understand how to achieve an answer. They must begin to answer more focused questions such as: 1. How productive is the existing work climate and culture? 2. How do employees as individuals navigate the existing work climate? (How do they deal with day-today issues with each other?) 3. Where and how are individuals and their work processes assessed? 4. What obstacles do employees face every day and are they empowered to fix these obstacles? 5. What role does leadership play at each level of the organization? (Looking at the organization in layers of management. ) To address these challenges this book focuses on three main aspects of leadership and management: 1. Addressing and Improving the Perspective of Management - The ideas presented in this book are not limited to a certain industry or field of work but can be applied in any setting because they speak to a universal human element. 2. Exploring and Improving Work Climate - Organizations are social entities operating within their own controlled environment. This book will explore the factors that contribute to and encourage a positive work climate. 3. Observing and Eliminating Wasteful Work Processes - Observing wasteful activities and work processes requires a refined perspective. The case studies presented illustrate the How and Why to help refine expertise. This will also lead to the joy and benefits | True Kaizen Management's Role in Improving Work Climate and Culture

GBP 34.99
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The Business Developer's Playbook Relationship Selling Principles and the DNA of Dialogue Selling

The Business Developer's Playbook Relationship Selling Principles and the DNA of Dialogue Selling

This book is not about selling products - it is about selling yourself your ideas and your services. This book explains an innovative dialogue sales process and the relationship sales principles that underpin it. In every sales situation there is both a seller and a buyer and at different times either the buyer or the seller may take the lead. The dance they perform may or may not lead to a deal but it will leave them knowing a little more about each other’s strengths and weaknesses. These two dancers are connected and follow the same steps - The five steps they follow are to plan connect dialogue record and follow up. The five steps are the basis of the dialogue process. In addition this book provides easy-to-follow guidance for three groups of people: 1. Professionals wanting to sell their services and improve their business development; 2. Thought leaders change agents innovators entrepreneurs senior public servants and advocates wanting to sell their ideas to others; 3. Mid-career job seekers and recent graduates aiming to sell themselves into a dream job role either full or part-time. | The Business Developer's Playbook Relationship Selling Principles and the DNA of Dialogue Selling

GBP 31.99
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Digital Transformation A Strategic Structure for Implementation

Digital Transformation A Strategic Structure for Implementation

With the advent of digital technologies society is reshaping itself radically. In the last decade digital technologies have brought fundamental changes in the industry and business environment. The holistic socioeconomic and industrial changes are a result of general-purpose technology aspects of digital transformation which are rare and have inherent capabilities of self-transformation to bring long-term benefits across the entire global business environment. After the steam engine electric generator and printing press the recent development of digital transformation has created an opportunity with extensive sustainable and incremental influence for disruption and renovation. However the most important difference between digital transformation and the previous general-purpose technologies such as steam engines and electric generators is the pace of technology’s penetration across the globe. To cope with the accelerated speed of global digitization the digital transformation process should be accepted adopted and adapted across society and business utilizing a multi-dimensional strategy. This book illustrates a strategic structure that covers Digital Challenges for Industries Applicability for Digital Transformation Digital Transformation Framework People and Organization Structure Capability Delivery Activities and Life Cycle Benefits. How will businesses embrace digital transformation? How will organizations formulate a digital transformation strategy? How will they invest in digital technologies? To answer these questions a strategic structure is created which can provide guidelines to businesses to create a framework for digital transformation that includes strategy process governance and funding. The exponential growth in data capacity (storage process and communication) due to rapid digitalization has created infinite opportunities and different dimensions to businesses. Digital platforms have enabled alternative business models by deconstructing the traditional value chains. Agile concepts driven by design thinking have brought innovative perspectives with an environment of boundless disruption. To run a company with sustainability and manage disruptions more consciously the adoption of a digital platform with an appropriate strategy is the only viable option. Digital transformation (DX) goals and strategies should be in line with a company’s business objectives. The strategic structure explained in the book is a global framework that can be adopted by any profit or nonprofit organization. Like any other transformational process digital transformation has created structural tension between old and new. In this tension employees play a large role and their clarity of thought regarding the transformation process is of paramount interest. To overcome this tension companies need to orient as learning organizations which will provide opportunities for growth in an ambidextrous environment embraced with a digital ecosystem. The book explains how the structural tension between old and new can be mitigated by effectively involving all stakeholders in the transformation process. | Digital Transformation A Strategic Structure for Implementation

GBP 24.99
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Lean Supply Chain and Logistics Simulation Description of Roles - Paperwork - Flow

Lean Supply Chain and Logistics Simulation Description of Roles - Paperwork - Flow

Enna's Lean Supply Chain & Logistics Simulation will help your company realize its goal of becoming more Lean more agile and taking a lead over the competition. This is a hands-on simulation that demonstrates the effectiveness of Lean in the specialized context of the Supply Chain Logistics and Distribution environment. Throughout the three rounds of the simulation the participants will learn the importance of reducing batch size and streamlining the process flow as well as learning how to apply new concepts. Step by step team members become familiar with Lean and take these Lean concepts and apply them directly during the simulation. By dealing with everything from orders received working with the supplier and finally shipping the product the participants will gain an understanding of the importance of seeing the entire Supply Chain. The simulation comes with a Flash presentation including a results tracking sheet that is completed at the end of each round in order to help visualize improvement and profitability. Through a subtle change between Rounds 1 and 2 and a larger Lean transformation after Round 3 the benefits of Lean will become clearly apparent. Not only does this visualization help the participants see and experience Lean but also how it will be advantageous to them and their own job. | Lean Supply Chain and Logistics Simulation Description of Roles - Paperwork - Flow

GBP 375.00
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Implementing Hoshin Kanri How to Manage Strategy Through Policy Deployment and Continuous Improvement

Implementing Hoshin Kanri How to Manage Strategy Through Policy Deployment and Continuous Improvement

This book focuses on the implementation of Hoshin Kanri. It is a response to most books on strategic planning that tend to downplay the implementation and only describe the fully implemented planning process. The power of this book originates from a project in which a team of five professionals over a period of three years implemented Hoshin Kanri in 14 companies; results were drawn from 130 workshops with leadership teams. The project team subsequently ran several accelerators inside large and small companies as well as public institutions. All these experiences together form the implementation focus of the book. Moreover the organization of the book mirrors the message of its scientific thinking which is also the basic principle of Hoshin Kanri: Chapter 1 focuses on the basic analysis—Is Hoshin Kanri something for your organization? Chapter 2 addresses the ambition—What is the vision for strategy work in your organization? Chapter 3 presents the conditions needed for effective strategic work. Chapter 4 discusses the choice of implementation strategy and your role as the change agent. Chapter 5 describes how Hoshin Kanri works when implemented. Chapter 6 addresses coaching/mentoring and the Kata philosophy. Chapter 7 presents important analytical tools. Appendix 1 describes the journey made by a medium-sized construction company. Essentially this book describes in a concrete and structured way how you—the change agent—can use Hoshin Kanri in your organization to tackle large and complex challenges. | Implementing Hoshin Kanri How to Manage Strategy Through Policy Deployment and Continuous Improvement

GBP 31.99
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Government Big Pharma and The People A Century of Dis-Ease

Government Big Pharma and The People A Century of Dis-Ease

Pharmaceuticals constitute a relatively small share of the total Health Care expenditure in most developed economies and yet they play a critical role in the ongoing debate over how best to advance improve and afford Health Care. Despite this and perhaps because of this the industry has had for many years an outsized claim to fame and controversy praise and criticisms and support and condemnation. Unfortunately many participants in the debate do not fully understand the complexities of the industry and its role in the overall Health Care system. The analytical tools of economics provide a strong foundation for a better understanding of the dynamics of the pharmaceutical industry its contribution to Health and Health Care and its dual and often conflicting priorities of affordability and innovation as well as the various Private and Public Policy initiatives directed at the sector. Everyone is affected by Big Pharma and the products they produce. At the Drug store the physician’s office in front of the television in everyday conversations Drugs are a part of our lives. Society shapes our values toward Drugs and Drugs shape society. (The Pill and minor tranquilizers are good examples. ) And of course the way Congress deliberates and Big Pharma responds has a huge impact on how Drugs affect our lives. This book is well-researched on the subject of the pharmaceutical industry its struggles with Government and its relationship to the consumer from the early twentieth century until the present. The Dynamic Tension between the three participants – Government Big Pharma and the People – is described and explained to lead to an understanding of the controversies that rage today. The author describes how the Government its many investigatory efforts and the ultimate legislative results affect the industry and the consequences of their activities are explored in light of their effects on other players including the patients and consumers who rely on both Government and Big Pharma for their well-being and who find sometimes unexpected consequences while giving special attention to the attitudes beliefs and misadventures of less-than-optimal Drug use. Stakeholders are identified with physicians as a major focus as well as describing the significance of prescriptions as social objects and the processes by which physicians make choices on behalf of their patients. The author ties it all together with how Big Pharma affects and is affected by each of these groups. The author utilizes his 50-plus years’ experience as an academic practicing pharmacist and Big Pharma employee to describe the scope of the pharmaceutical industry and how it affects us on a daily basis concluding with an inside look at Big Pharma and how regulations marketing and the press have affected their business both good and bad. | Government Big Pharma and The People A Century of Dis-Ease

GBP 48.99
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Quality Function Deployment and Systems Supportability Achieving Key Performance Parameters and Ensuring Functional Alignment

Quality Function Deployment and Systems Supportability Achieving Key Performance Parameters and Ensuring Functional Alignment

This book not only presents the overall development of quality function deployment (QFD) and what it has been used for to date but a new product support orientation by which it can be employed. It is product and service “system” focused and presents how blending the processes and elements of supportability and analysis into a QFD-modeled methodology can achieve optimal cost savings and performance efficiency and effectiveness. In addition a working model is provided that will assist those that elect to use such an approach to current/new product and/or service development. QFD is widely spreading throughout the world because of its outstanding usefulness. It is aimed to fulfill the customer’s expectation of a product or service design. Organizations of all sizes are using it to (1) save product and service design and development time (2) focus on how the product or service might satisfy the customer and (3) improve communication at all levels of an organization during the development process. Based on these three reasons today's traditional QFD can be divided into three branches and analyzed. First QFD can be implemented effectively for developing new products and designs by establishing the linkage between design stages through the manufacturing environment. However research has found that traditional QFD is quite weak in implementing modifications to existing product and service design during its predicted lifecycle. Second most research to this point has been squarely focused on the “voice of the customer” for prioritizing customer needs. While certainly needed the “voice of the system” that is being used to produce the product/service and how they operate during its intended life cycle has been given less attention. Third QFD is often viewed as overly labor-intensive and thus costly and because of its team-based development logic manual in nature by those involved during its development and implementation. Research has shown that life cycle sustainment planning and support for current or proposed products and/or services requires a seamless and balanced life cycle support methodology. To achieve this type of support twelve functional elements have been identified that form the product support infrastructure. A new approach one that views product support as an integrative activity where all twelve product support elements are assessed over the entire product and/or service life cycle is being deployed. With this deployment comes a need to ensure Key Performance Parameters (KPPs) are achieved and functional alignment obtained by balancing supportability element cost and provisioning throughout the entire product and/or service lifecycle not just during the development stage and to view the system as the “customer” and thus listen to the “Voice of the System” when assessing supportability requirements. Quality Function Deployment (QFD) is such a tool. This book contains four sections. Section 1 provides an initial overview of QFD origins and history and highlights some of its use today. It addresses how QFD fits within the organization increasing revenue and reducing cost. It outlines a step-by-step strategy for successfully deploying QFD within the organization. Section 2 examines the evolving product and/or service requirement creating the design solution using QFD assessing supportability characteristics using QFD and performing functional supportability analysis using QFD. Section 3 provides a guide for developing the life cycle supportability solution using QFD methodology on an ongoing basis and managing processes throughout the systems lifecycle. Section 4 addresses using QFD in an imperfect world and will provide insight into how to use QFD beyond the standard “house of quality” concept. | Quality Function Deployment and Systems Supportability Achieving Key Performance Parameters and Ensuring Functional Alignment

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HIMSS Dictionary of Health Information and Technology Terms Acronyms and Organizations

HIMSS Dictionary of Health Information and Technology Terms Acronyms and Organizations

This significantly expanded and newest edition of the bestselling HIMSS Dictionary of Health Information and Technology Terms Acronyms and Organizations has been developed and extensively reviewed by a robust team of industry experts. The fifth edition of this dictionary serves as a quick reference for students health information and technology (IT) professionals and healthcare executives to better navigate the ever-growing health IT field. This valuable resource includes more than 3 400 definitions organizations credentials acronyms and references. Definitions of terms for the health IT medical and nursing informatics fields are updated and included. This fifth edition also includes an acronyms list with cross references to current definitions and a list of health IT-related associations and organizations including contact information mission statements and web addresses. Academic and professional certification credentials are also included. As a mission driven non-profit HIMSS offers a unique depth and breadth of expertise in health innovation public policy workforce development research and analytics to advise global leaders stakeholders and influencers on best practices in health information and technology. Through our innovation companies HIMSS delivers key insights education and engaging events to healthcare providers governments and market suppliers ensuring they have the right information at the point of decision. As an association HIMSS encompasses more than 72 000 individual members and 630 corporate members. We partner with hundreds of providers academic institutions and health services organizations on strategic initiatives that leverage innovative information and technology. Together we work to improve health access and the quality and cost-effectiveness of healthcare. HIMSS Vision Better health through information and technology. HIMSS Mission Globally lead endeavors optimizing health engagements and care outcomes through information and technology.

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Nursing and Informatics for the 21st Century - Embracing a Digital World 3rd Edition - Book 2 Nursing Education and Digital Health Strategies

Nursing and Informatics for the 21st Century - Embracing a Digital World 3rd Edition - Book 2 Nursing Education and Digital Health Strategies

Nursing Education and Digital Health Strategies explores the current state of health and healthcare education as well as that of nursing informatics education. These topics include technologies-enabled education for all nurses and interprofessional collaborations from a worldwide perspective. The New learning for applied critical thinking will include technology content skills versus tools and the use of smart systems for care delivery the role of critical thinking and uniqueness of nursing care delivery. Further how these changes are understood as a paradigm shift that needs to be incorporated along with nursing and healthcare education is emphasized. The effects of technology on human behavior are also explored addressing human–factors interaction interdependence of human–computer interaction and other effects of technology on wellbeing. As part of nursing education learning from clients/patients to better shape and advance nursing education and scholarship are discussed. Academic–clinical practice partnerships for a digital future how teams are working together (clinician/teacher) for better healthcare delivery and applied knowledge—including joint appointments (exchange of academia and applied expertise) academic–applied human resources and interprofessional learning/development—are discussed. This book closes by discussing and using case studies to showcase nursing competencies for the next decade implications for preparing the healthcare workforce for a digital world faculty readiness and the interaction with gaming and simulations. Nursing informatics education including continuing education beyond academia i. e. informal education worldwide as well as global challenges to support digital world capabilities are described. Hands-on Experiential Delivery and learning-based case studies are also included. Nursing and Informatics for the 21st Century – Embracing a Digital World 3rd Edition is comprised of four books which can be purchased individually: Book 1: Realizing Digital Health – Bold Challenges and Opportunities for Nursing Book 2: Nursing Education and Digital Health Strategies Book 3: Innovation Technology and Applied Informatics for Nurses Book 4: Nursing in an Integrated Digital World that Supports People Systems and the Planet | Nursing and Informatics for the 21st Century - Embracing a Digital World 3rd Edition - Book 2 Nursing Education and Digital Health Strategies

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Fundamentals of Daily Shop Floor Management A Guide for Manufacturing Optimization and Excellence

Fundamentals of Daily Shop Floor Management A Guide for Manufacturing Optimization and Excellence

Survival and thriving in today’s business environment require companies to continuously strive for operational excellence at all levels of the organization. Simply working to maintain existing operations is not an adequate or sustainable business strategy especially when competing in a global market. To remain relevant companies must adopt a process control and continuous improvement mentality as an integral part of their daily work activities. These two operational disciplines form the foundation and stepping stones for manufacturing excellence. Processes must be stable capable and controlled as a prerequisite for sustainable improvement. Sustainable improvements must be strategic continuous and focused on process optimization. Modern-day manufacturing is rapidly changing in the face of technological geopolitical social and environmental developments. These challenges are altering the way we think and act to transform raw materials into finished goods. Meeting these challenges requires particular attention to how we develop and engage people and apply technology for long-term sustainability and competitive advantage. This book takes you on a journey to explore the fundamental elements management practices improvement methods and future direction of shop floor management. Part 1 of this five-part book considers workplace culture organizational structure operational discipline and employee accountability as the foundation for a robust manufacturing system. Part 2 studies the impact of process standardization data analytics information sharing communication and people on daily shop floor management. Once the management system has been adequately described Part 3 concentrates on its effective execution monitoring and control with a deep look into the people methods machines materials and environment that make it possible. Like every good manufacturing text efficiency and productivity are key topics. That’s why Part 4 explores various methods tools and techniques associated with product and process development productivity improvement agile methods shop floor optimization and manufacturing excellence. The final section Part 5 shifts focus to emerging technologies engaging the reader to contemplate technology’s impact on the digital transformation of the manufacturing industry. | Fundamentals of Daily Shop Floor Management A Guide for Manufacturing Optimization and Excellence

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Nursing and Informatics for the 21st Century - Embracing a Digital World 3rd Edition Book 4 Nursing in an Integrated Digital World that Su

Nursing and Informatics for the 21st Century - Embracing a Digital World 3rd Edition Book 4 Nursing in an Integrated Digital World that Su

In Nursing in an Integrated Digital World that Supports People Systems and the Planet the leading-edge innovators in digital health applications global thought leaders and multinational cooperative research initiatives are woven together against the backdrop of health equity and policy-setting bodies such as the United Nations and the World Health Organization. As the authors prepared this book the world is struggling with the core issues of access to care access to needed medical equipment and supplies and access to vaccines. This access theme is reflected throughout the policy and world health chapters with an emphasis on how this COVID-19 pandemic is exposing the fissures divides unfairness and unpreparedness that are in play across our globe. Sustainability and global health policy are linked to the new digital technologies in the chapters that illustrate healthcare delivery modalities that nurse innovators are developing leading and using to deliver care to hard-to-reach populations for better population health. A trio of chapters focus on the underlying need for standards to underlie nursing care in order to capture the data needed to enable new science and knowledge discoveries. The authors give particular attention to the cautions potential for harm and biases that the artificial intelligence technologies of algorithms and machine learning pose in healthcare. Additionally they have tapped legal experts to review the legal statues government regulations and civil rights law in place for patients’ rights privacy and confidentiality and consents for the United States the United Kingdom and the European Union. The book closes with a chapter written by the editors that envisions the near future—the impact that the new digital technologies will have on how care is delivered expanding care settings into community and home virtual monitoring and patient generated data as well as the numerous ways that nurses’ roles and technology skill sets must increase to support the global goals of equal access to healthcare. Nursing and Informatics for the 21st Century – Embracing a Digital World 3rd Edition is comprised of four books which can be purchased individually: Book 1: Realizing Digital Health – Bold Challenges and Opportunities for Nursing Book 2: Nursing Education and Digital Health Strategies Book 3: Innovation Technology and Applied Informatics for Nurses Book 4: Nursing in an Integrated Digital World that Supports People Systems and the Planet | Nursing and Informatics for the 21st Century - Embracing a Digital World 3rd Edition Book 4 Nursing in an Integrated Digital World that Su

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