Productivity Press imprint: 189 books
The Monetary Value of Time
Why Traditional Accounting Systems Make Customers Wait
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Although there are numerous books on alternative accounting methods, such as Lean accounting, none focus on the impact of time and how accounting practices can be modified to acknowledge the power of time. This book addresses this need.
The Monetary Value of Time: Why Traditional Accounting...
Understanding, Measuring, and Improving Overall Equipment Effectiveness
How to Use OEE to Drive Significant Process Improvement
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
Understanding, Measuring, and Improving Overall Equipment Effectiveness: How to Use OEE to Drive Significant Process Improvement explains why the Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) measure was created and how it should be used.
Based on 20 years of hands on experience applying OEE at over...
MoneyBall Medicine
Thriving in the New Data-Driven Healthcare Market
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
How can a smartwatch help patients with diabetes manage their disease? Why can’t patients find out prices for surgeries and other procedures before they happen? How can researchers speed up the decade-long process of drug development? How will "Precision Medicine" impact patient care outside...
The Intersection of Change Management and Lean Six Sigma
The Basics for Black Belts and Change Agents
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
"Randy has crafted an invaluable book, no matter where you are in the journey of organizational change management. A must-have guide you will refer to again and again."
– Marshall Goldsmith, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller, Triggers.
"Randy Kesterson recognizes...
Value Engineering Synergies with Lean Six Sigma
Combining Methodologies for Enhanced Results
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Lean Six Sigma (LSS), Design for Six Sigma (DFSS), and Value Engineering (VE) have a proven track record of success for solving problems and improving efficiency. Depending on the situation, integrating these approaches can provide results that exceed the benefits of each individual approach. Value Engineering Synergies with Lean Six Sigma: Combini
Out of the Lab and On the Market
How Sony Computer Science Labs (SonyCSL) Turn Research into Profits
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Tetsu Natsume of Sony Computer Science Labs (Sony CSL) has been pioneering technology promotion for a decade. As he seeks marketplace opportunities for ground-breaking research, he plays the role of a Technology Producer -- a role that will be increasingly important as organizations seek optimally...
Quality, Involvement, Flow
The Systemic Organization
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Current organizations underperform due to silo thinking. Artificial barriers frustrate efforts and perpetuate an organizational model no longer adequate for the complexity of the current business world. Leaders and managers must acquire a whole-system perspective for their organizations to be sustainable....
Lean TRIZ
How to Dramatically Reduce Product-Development Costs with This Innovative Problem-Solving Tool
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Lean TRIZ is a new workshop-based process that brings together teams to focus on specific processes, evolutionary product designs, and improvement opportunities. It combines the insight of TRIZ with the simplicity of Value Engineering, EXPRESS, or FAST methodologies. TRIZ is the most advanced problem...
The Framework for Innovation
A Guide to the Body of Innovation Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2018
The innovation infrastructure and master plan described in this book offers a detailed and comprehensive approach to one of the most difficult and challenging problems facing entrepreneurs involved in innovation at any scale enterprise: the problem of how to govern your organization’s innovation...
by William S. Ruggles, H. James Harrington
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
Project Management for Performance Improvement Teams (or, PM4PITs, for short) provides practical guidance based on innovative concepts for project teams -- especially Performance Improvement Teams (PITs)—and their Project Managers on how to successfully complete individual projects and programs...
Creativity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship
The Only Way to Renew Your Organization
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
People with ideas are dreamers. People who get things done are doers. One doer is worth eight dreamers. There are three kinds of people who make up an innovator. There are inventors (people who have new and unique ideas), problem solvers (people who have ideas about how to correct a previous error)...
The Innovation Tools Handbook, Volume 2
Evolutionary and Improvement Tools that Every Innovator Must Know
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
In today’s fast-moving, high-technology environment, the focus on quality has given way to a focus on innovation. From presidents of the United States to presidents of Fortune 500 companies, it is clear that everyone thinks innovation is extremely important. The challenge is that few people stop...
Lean Misconceptions
Why Many Lean Initiatives Fail and How You Can Avoid the Mistakes
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
It has been reported that about 70% of performance-improvement initiatives fail to achieve desired results. The primary causes are unrealistic expectations regarding effort and results and too much focus on short-term improvements instead of long-term capability building. Too many consultants and...
The Grow or Die Ultimatum
Creating Value Through Acquisition and Blended, Long-Term Improvement Formulas
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
Mergers and acquisitions require diligent planning and are extremely hard work -- you can’t get better just by getting bigger! Businesses must run effectively before they are expanded through acquisition.
Using a compelling story format featuring a cast of characters, The "Grow or Die"...