Productivity Press imprint: 189 books
TWI Case Studies
Standard Work, Continuous Improvement, and Teamwork
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2011
TWI Case Studies: Standard Work, Continuous Improvement, and Teamwork provides the insight of leading experts to assist in the execution of Training Within Industry (TWI) the game-changing business tool. Presented as a series of case studies from a range of corporations with a variety of products and needs, it illustrates the rebirth of TWI program
The Lean Practitioner's Field Book
Proven, Practical, Profitable and Powerful Techniques for Making Lean Really Work
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
While there are numerous Lean Certification programs, most companies have their own certification paths whereby they bestow expert status upon employees after they have participated in or led a certain number of kaizen events. Arguing that the number of kaizen events should not determine a person's...
How to Coach for Creativity and Service Excellence
A Lean Coaching Workbook
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2019
How to Coach for Creativity and Service Excellence: A Lean Coaching Workbook is a self-contained workbook, in which the reader completes twenty-one days of practical exercises and activities focused on creativity, lean and coaching (one set per day). This will enable the reader to develop their capability...
Managing As Mission
Nonprofit Managing for Sustainable Change
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Managing As Mission pushes the boundaries of what it means to be a nonprofit manager by making the case that managing, as a reflection of the organizational mission – the cornerstone of any nonprofit – can bring about the change nonprofits were created to achieve: a better world for all. This...
Visible Knowledge for Flawless Design
The Secret Behind Lean Product Development
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Visible knowledge is a tool nearly lost in the West, but it has been used to great effect by Toyota in its 50-year march from noncompetitiveness to its current status as the second largest automobile company in the world. It is key for the 50% growth in market share Toyota plans for this decade despite...
Lean System Management for Leaders
A New Performance Management Toolset
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
Richard Mallory introduces a leadership framework for system management, including practical tools and guidance for its use. It enables an agile quality framework throughout an entire organization that will build the kind of "learning organization" championed by Peter M. Senge in his classic...
The Business Developer's Playbook
Relationship Selling Principles and the DNA of Dialogue Selling
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
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,...
Excellence Beyond Compliance
Establishing a Medical Device Quality System
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2018
Many companies limp along from day-to-day treating the quality side of the business as a necessary evil, and doing only what is minimally necessary for compliance to regulations. This kind of approach to compliance almost always results in inefficiencies and sometimes can result in a curious kind...
Leaner Six Sigma
Making Lean Six Sigma Easier and Adaptable to Current Workplaces
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2019
Since the 1980s, Lean and Six Sigma have been used independently to make existing processes better, faster and more cost effective. For almost twenty years, countless companies have embraced the power of blending the two process improvement methodologies. This has resulted in major financial successes...
Leadersights
Creating Great Leaders Who Create Great Workplaces
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
Love, learn, let go. Three decisions. Three actions. Three habits. Together, these offer leaders insight (Leadersights) into the true nature of leadership and can create the type of workplace that can thrive in a demanding future.
Leadersights: Creating Great Leaders Who Create Great Workplaces...
Service Extraordinaire
Unlocking the Value of Concierge Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Concierge medicine represents a relatively novel health care delivery model that is becoming more appealing both to providers and patients because of its potential to improve quality and value in health care. A gap exists in the current literature regarding the benefits and challenges associated with...
Digital Healing
People, Information, Healthcare
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
Medical practice and research are inconceivable today without electronic computing and communication tools. Digital machines do many tasks orders-of-magnitude better, faster and more accurately than humans.
Still, there are functions critical to the healthcare endeavor that people do much better...
Equipment Management in the Post-Maintenance Era
A New Alternative to Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2018
Recent advancements in information systems and computer technology have led to developments in equipment and robotic technology that have permanently changed the characteristics of manufacturing equipment. Equipment Management in the Post-Maintenance Era: A New Alternative to Total Productive Maintenance...
by Timothy D. Martin, Jeffrey T. Bell, Scott A. Martin
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
This field guide can be used directly on the gemba (work area) for implementing and documenting standardized work. It promotes the "future state" of standardized work along with crucial step-by-step techniques and explanations not found in other publications. The authors furnish many real...