Decision Making category: 1513 books
by Craig Cochran
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
ISO 9001 hasn't changed much in the last 15 years... until now! ISO 9001:2015 is a MAJOR revision. A LOT has changed. Requirements have been added and removed. Content has shifted to different sections and clauses. ISO 9001:2015 is built upon a completely different structure with the adoption of Annex...
by ASQ Quality Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
"The Old Seven.""The First Seven.""The Basic Seven."Quality pros have many names for these seven basic tools of quality, first emphasized by Kaoru Ishikawa, a professor of engineering at Tokyo University and the father of “quality circles.”Start your quality journey by mastering these...
Project Workflow Management
A Business Process Approach
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
Foreword by industry legend Harold Kerzner!This book describes a completely unique step-by-step, workflow-guiding approach to project management which simplifies activities by enforcing execution of all required processes on time, and redirecting to an alternative path in the event of project issues....
Frame Innovation
Create New Thinking by Design
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2015
How organizations can use practices developed by expert designers to solve today's open, complex, dynamic, and networked problems.
When organizations apply old methods of problem-solving to new kinds of problems, they may accomplish only temporary fixes or some ineffectual tinkering around...
The Six Sigma Project Planner
A Step-by-Step Guide to Leading a Six Sigma Project Through DMAIC
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2003
Project management strategies for meeting Six Sigma project goals--on time and on budget
The Six Sigma Project Planner shows leaders how to use project management tools to complete Six Sigma improvements on time and on budget.
The Planner provides dozens of reproducible project management...
Lean Six Sigma That Works
A Powerful Action Plan for Dramatically Improving Quality, Increasing Speed, and Reducing Waste
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2006
If lean manufacturing moves your products through processes faster, and Six Sigma improves their quality, just imagine what combining these two powerful disciplines will do for you! Lean Six Sigma That Works provides the key to transforming your results in any manufacturing environment, giving you...
Statistical Process Control
A Pragmatic Approach
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
People with minimal math skills, and even those with advanced math skills, have difficulty grasping the intuitive concepts behind Statistical Process Control (SPC). Many practitioners do not understand the concepts behind Control Charts, the differences of out of control and out of specification,...
Design for Six Sigma
A Roadmap for Product Development
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2008
The Latest Tools and Guidance Needed to Implement Design for Six Sigma in New Product and Service Development!
Hailed as a classic in its first edition, Design for Six Sigma has been fully revised and updated to equip you with everything you need to implement Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) in...
Common Ground on Hostile Turf
Stories from an Environmental Mediator
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
In our increasingly polarized society, there are constant calls for compromise, for coming together. For many, these are empty talking points—for Lucy Moore, they are a life's work. As an environmental mediator, she has spthe past quarter century resolving conflicts that appeared utterly intractable....
Trendspotting
Think Forward, Get Ahead, Cash in on the Future
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2002
This is the book that will show anyone how to discern true signs of change. Here are the hottest tips on what to expect from the economy and technology, arts and entertainment, politics and society at large. Written by a public relations expert, this new insider's guide goes beyond other books on...
by Carol Ptak, Chad Smith
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2011
"The definitive reference for the next generation of manufacturing practitioners and leaders." -- From the Foreword by Dave Turbide, CFPIM, CMfgE, CIRM, CSCP
"Finally, MRP has been brought into our new age where, in order to fight for increased share and profitability, manufacturers...
The Project Workout
The ultimate handbook of project and programme management
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
"an important book, taking a lead role in growing a new generation of professional project managers." Oded Cohen, The Goldratt Institute.
Put yourself and your business through the Project Workout learn to direct and manage the programmes and projects that will deliver...
Expect the Unexpected (Or You Won't Find It)
A Creativity Tool Based on the Ancient Wisdom of H
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2001
"You can't step in the same river twice."
"Dogs bark at what they don't understand."
"The doctor inflicts pain to cure suffering."
The ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus was famous for his brilliant and provocative sayings. Today, more than 2,500 years after they were written,...
Strategic Management for Nonprofit Organizations
Theory and Cases
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 1995
Nonprofit organizations in the U.S. earn more than $100 billion annually, and number over a million different organizations. They face increasing competition for donor's dollars and many of the issues they confront are similar to those confronted by for-profit organizations. Strategic Management for...