Essential operations management

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Carol Kennedy

What exactly are Deming's famous 14 points? How can managers analyze their own company's competitiveness using Michael Porter's strategies for competitive advantage? How did Peters and Waterman's In Search of Excellence formula get debunked with the 1980s? How do companies really Thrive on Chaos? If you don't have ready answers for these important management questions, Instant Management is the book for you - whether you've been out of school for years and forgotten the details of the economic Major Works, or it's the night before the exam and you need a quick "refresher" on all the semester's reading. Taking the best ideas from the most important management thinkers of our time, Instant Management is the ideal reference guide for understanding modern management strategy. In quick, easy-to-read essays, Carol Kennedy provides concise summaries capturing the essence of thirty-four seminal thinkers and their major works. In addition to the blow-by-blow key points for each theorist, every entry includes a brief biography and a list of important source titles. Instant Management is perfect reading for the busy executive or student. Covering a range of thinkers spanning the century - from Max Weber to Tom Peters, from F. W. Taylor to Rosabeth Moss Kanter - this user-friendly guide is indispensable for gaining the greatest amount of knowledge in the management field in the shortest amount of time. Why read thirty-four business texts when you can read just one?

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Howard S. Gitlow, David M. Levine, Edward Popovich

Most Six Sigma books are targeted at manufacturers, and don't reflect the unique implementation challenges service companies face. This book fills the gap. Using its practical, start-to-finish guidance, service company teams can utilize Six Sigma to drive powerful bottom-line benefits. The authors systematically introduce the management foundation required to implement Six Sigma successfully. Readers will discover how to lead teams to achieve results in shorter time frames, and present projects to executives concisely and effectively. This book thoroughly covers every stage of the DMADV Design for Six Sigma® Management improvement model: Define, Measure, Analyze, Design, and Verify/Validate. Outputs from Minitab, JMP, and SigmaFlow are illustrated and provided on CD-ROM and through downloadable date sets and templates.*The CD-ROM is not included with the digital version of this book.

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Nallan C. Suresh, John M. Kay

Group Technology and Cellular Manufacturing (GT/CM) have been widely-researched areas in the past 15 years and much progress has been made in all branches of GT/CM. Resulting from this research activity has been a proliferation of techniques for part-machine grouping, engineering data bases, expert system-based design methods for identifying part families, new analytical and simulation tools for evaluating performance of cells, new types of cell incorporating robotics and flexible automation, team-based approaches for organizing the work force and much more; however, the field lacks a careful compilation of this research and its outcomes. The editors of this book have commissioned leading researchers and implementers to prepare specific treatments of topics for their special areas of expertise in this broad-based philosophy of manufacturing. The editors have sought to be global both in coverage of topic matters and contributors. Group Technology and Cellular Manufacturing addresses the needs and interests of three groups of individuals in the manufacturing field: academic researchers, industry practitioners, and students. (1) The book provides an up-to-date perspective, incorporating the advances made in GT/CM during the past 15 years. As a natural extension to this research, it synthesizes the latest industry practices and outcomes to guide research to greater real-world relevance. (2) The book makes clear the foundations of GT/CM from the core elements of new developments which are aimed at reducing developmental and manufacturing lead times, costs, and at improving business quality and performance. (3) Finally, the book can be used as a textbook for graduate students in engineering and management for studying the field of Group Technology and Cellular Manufacturing.

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Bruce Tulgan

"Explains how to master the fundamental practice of effective management. Shows managers how to tailor conversations to solve specific problems, and teaches specific approaches to challenges like bad attitudes, friction and conflict, and low performers"--