Simple Excellence

Author : Adam Zak,Bill Waddell
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781439838464

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Simple Excellence by Adam Zak,Bill Waddell Pdf

Detailing the role of senior management in achieving a successful transformation to organizational excellence, Simple Excellence: Organizing and Aligning the Management Team in a Lean Transformation charts a course of simplification through the complexity often associated with managing performance improvement initiatives. It spells out the roles of key individuals on the management team—including those from sales and marketing, human resources, purchasing/supply chain, information technology, finance, and engineering. Maintaining a focus on the big picture, this book explains what value streams are and how to use them to structure your business so that all stakeholders are aligned with what matters most. It reduces constraint management to its most practical terms and lays out a sound approach to accounting that enables everyone to spend money where it adds value and stop spending where it doesn’t. Drive your management team with dedicated allegience to the concept of value enhancement Propel your organization to higher performance through the employment of Lean culture and decision-making principles Enact management structures needed to put new ways of thinking into play Focus on the bottom line with the right performance metrics Written by respected authorities with extensive experience helping leading organizations achieve Lean transformation, the text includes case studies from high-profile organizations recognized for operational excellence. Addressing human resources management practices, it explains how to manage the day-to-day operations and pricing factory capabilities for the greatest possible profits. It also discusses the ongoing process of strategic planning to help you move away from annual goal setting, toward a dynamic process of engaging the entire company in the effort to provide your customers with an improved sense of value.

Author : Jack Schneider
Publisher : Stanford University
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:dc391yx7740

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Excellence for All by Jack Schneider Pdf

Excellence For All: American Education Reform, 1983-2008 examines the history of school reform in the United States over the past quarter-century. Specifically, the work examines an approach to educational change best characterized by the phrase "excellence for all"—an equity-focused policy phenomenon uniquely situated for the policymaking context of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The idea of promoting excellence for all students united a broad enough coalition to pursue a truly national reform effort and captured the imaginations of leaders in state and local government, at philanthropic foundations, in colleges and universities, and in school districts across the country. Led by a corps of self-styled educational entrepreneurs aggressively pursuing reforms that they could take "to scale, " the movement sought to remake the American high school piece by piece. The dissertation examines this reform movement through the nation's three largest districts—New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles—and through three particular change efforts: a physical plant reform (the small schools movement), a personnel reform (Teach For America), and a curricular reform (the Advanced Placement Program). The work aims to establish the ways in which this most recent era of school reform represented a departure from previous reform eras, strives to explain the movement's broad appeal, and ultimately, aims to understand its shortcomings by exploring the assumptions underlying the excellence for all approach and the tradeoffs required by it.

Author : Les Porter,Steve Tanner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136427909

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Assessing Business Excellence by Les Porter,Steve Tanner Pdf

Assessing Business Excellence presents a strategic framework for business excellence and total quality management and shows how you can be actively involved in continuous improvement by systematically reviewing your business activities and results against holistic business excellence frameworks. For all practitioners who seek to use total quality management to improve their organization's effectiveness, efficiency and responsiveness, this title is the essential route map to business excellence. From two leading expert authors comes a book where the most recognized quality award criteria are used to explore the concepts of business excellence and self-assessment. This book: * Introduces the major business excellence and total quality frameworks including The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award and the European Quality Award and ISO9000:2000 * Compares the frameworks and identifies their strengths and limitations * Introduces the self-assessment process * Explores the main approaches to self-assessment * Illustrates the practical benefits of self-assessment through case examples

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264201132

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PISA 2012 Results: Excellence through Equity (Volume II) Giving Every Student the Chance to Succeed by OECD Pdf

This second volume of PISA 2012 results defines and measures equity in education and analyses how equity in education has evolved across countries between PISA 2003 and 2012.

Author : Horace Bushnell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Atonement
ISBN : UOMDLP:ajh1114:0001.001

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The Vicarious Sacrifice, Grounded in Principles of Universal Obligation by Horace Bushnell Pdf

Author : Ben Bergeron
Publisher : Ben Bergeron, LLC
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1619617277

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Chasing Excellence by Ben Bergeron Pdf

"Ben's ability to develop mental toughness and the approach he shares in Chasing Excellence is a game changer for athletes in any sport." --Javier Vazquez, Major League Baseball All-Star "This book will do for you what Ben has done for me--take you to the next level and show you how to be the best. His insights on the mental game are second to none. You will feel prepared for anything." --Bethany Hart-Gerry, US Olympic Bobsled Team CrossFit trainer Ben Bergeron has helped build the world's fittest athletes, but he's not like other coaches. He believes that greatness is not for the elite few; that winning is a result, not a goal; and that character, not talent, is what makes a true champion. His powerful philosophy can help anyone excel at all aspects of life. Using the dramatic competition between the top contenders at the 2016 Reebok CrossFit Games(R) as a background, Ben explores the step-by-step process of achieving excellence and the unique set of positive character traits necessary for leveling up to world-class. The mindset and methodology that have produced some of the greatest athletes in the world's most gruelling sport can work equally well for golfers, lawyers, artists, entrepreneurs--anyone who's willing to commit totally to becoming better than the best. By Chasing Excellence, you'll discover how extraordinary it's possible for you to be.

Author : Harold Kerzner
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 786 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-20
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781119468851

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Project Management Best Practices: Achieving Global Excellence by Harold Kerzner Pdf

The comprehensive guide to project management implementation, updated with the latest in the field Project management has spread beyond the IT world to become a critical part of business in every sphere; built on efficiency, analysis, and codified practice, professional project management leads to the sort of reproducible results and reliable processes that make a business successful. Project Management Best Practices provides implementation guidance for every phase of a project, based on the real-world methodologies from leading companies around the globe. Updated to align with the industry’s latest best practices, this new Fourth Edition includes new discussion on Agile and Scrum, tradeoffs and constraints, Portfolio PMO tools, and much more. Get up-to-date information on the latest best practices that add value at every level of an organization Gain insight from more than 50 project managers at world-class organizations including Airbus, Heineken, RTA, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sony, Cisco, Nokia, and more Delve deeper into implementation guidance for Agile, Scrum, and Six Sigma Explore more efficient methodologies, training, measurement, and metrics that boost organization-wide performance Adopt new approaches to culture and behavioral excellence, including conflict resolution, situational leadership, proactive management, staffing, and more Ideal for both college and corporate training, this book is accompanied by an Instructor’s Manual and PowerPoint lecture slides that bring project management concepts right into the classroom. As the field continues to grow and evolve, it becomes increasingly important to stay current with new and established practices; this book provides comprehensive guidance on every aspect of project management, with invaluable real-world insight from leaders in the field.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on House Oversight
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCR:31210024919423

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Influencing Elections by United States. Congress. House. Committee on House Oversight Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015017525133

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The Studio by Anonim Pdf

Author : Kevin J. Duggan
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780071768566

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Design for Operational Excellence: A Breakthrough Strategy for Business Growth by Kevin J. Duggan Pdf

Beyond Six Sigma and Lean! Design your processes to facilitate real business growth, in both healthy and unhealthy economies Design for Operational Excellence defines why companies embark upon continuous improvement—and the true answer is not to improve efficiency, quality, or eliminate waste! The reason is to achieve Operational Excellence. Duggan, an established authority on OpEx, provides the design criteria and guidelines that enable you to grow your business organically by refocusing management’s attention from running the business to growing the business. Founded on eight key principles, this groundbreaking system facilitates the continuous flow of value into any operation—from customer service to sales to manufacturing. Kevin J. Duggan is a renowned speaker, executive mentor, and educator in applying advanced lean techniques to achieve Operational Excellence and the author of two books on the subject: Creating Mixed Model Value Streams and The Office That Grows Your Business—Achieving Operational Excellence in Your Business Processes. As the Founder of the Institute for Operational Excellence, the leading educational center on Operational Excellence, and Duggan Associates, an international training and advisory firm, Kevin has assisted many major corporations worldwide, including United Technologies Corporation, Caterpillar, Pratt & Whitney, Singapore Airlines, IDEX Corporation, GKN and Parker Hannifin. A recognized expert on Operational Excellence, Kevin is a frequent keynote speaker, master of ceremonies, and panelist at international conferences, and has appeared on CNN and the Fox Business Network.

Author : District of Columbia. Board of Education
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015076587388

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Report by District of Columbia. Board of Education Pdf

Author : Margaret Oliphant
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783732682072

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Jeanne d ́Arc by Margaret Oliphant Pdf

Reproduction of the original: Jeanne d ́Arc by Margaret Oliphant

Author : Shawn M. Tomlinson
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780359104307

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Phenomenal Stories, Vol. 1, No. 2 by Shawn M. Tomlinson Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 920 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010649825

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Dress & Vanity Fair by Anonim Pdf

Author : Shawn M. Tomlinson
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780359150748

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Phenomenal Stories, Vol. 1, No. 2 • Special Collectors' Edition by Shawn M. Tomlinson Pdf