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The Handbook for Market Research for Life Sciences Companies Finding the Answers You Need to Understand Your Market

The Handbook for Market Research for Life Sciences Companies Finding the Answers You Need to Understand Your Market

As innovation moves from the lab to the market a new research phase begins for the entrepreneur: the market research phase. Inspired by a new technology that can change the world critical questions need to be addressed. Is there a market for my innovation? Who are my clients? What do they need? Is my innovation filling that gap in the market? Who are my competitors? How are they approaching the market? If these questions are unaswered entrepreneurs meet potential investors or partners with only a basic understanding of their market. The objective of this book is to fill this gap. It is a practical manual that gives entrepreneurs real-world advice and tools to build a solid market model. The book provides tips models and tools entrepreneurs can use to collect interpret and present their market and integrate it into their business plan. What the entrepreneur learns in this book will help him throughout his journey. After going over the market research process he will learn how to design and use a number of market research tools and how to adapt them in a life science context. From building a web survey to preparing interviews to doing your own secondary research this handbook will help him gain a comprehensive understanding of how to perform his own market research activities and how to analyze his data. Finally a number of frameworks (such as the TAM-SAM-SOM as well as the KANO Model) are described so that he can efficiently share what he has learned using models that simply yet effectively shares findings. | The Handbook for Market Research for Life Sciences Companies Finding the Answers You Need to Understand Your Market

GBP 52.99
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Learning from the Past Present and Future to Drive Profits to New Levels Roadmaps for Solving and Preventing Problems Making Better Decis

Learning from the Past Present and Future to Drive Profits to New Levels Roadmaps for Solving and Preventing Problems Making Better Decis

The content of this book is centered around three seemingly diverse themes. The first theme is why it’s so important for companies to learn from the past the present and the future. The author covers some of the key learnings from the distant and current past and how these learnings changed the course for many companies. He discusses new learnings that have been developed in our current state and will continue to be brought forward. He provides a look into the future just to make sure companies understand that they should always be looking for better ways to function. The second theme is centered around problem-solving problem prevention and decision-making. That is how to successfully define problems that already exist in your current reality how to prevent problems from occurring in the future and how to make much more effective decisions. Problems have plagued many companies for many years and knowing how to follow a structured approach to solve them should prove to be very useful. And perhaps even more important than solving problems is how companies can go about preventing the problems from occurring in the first place. Think about how your company might look if the plethora of problems to solve didn’t exist. And with current or potential problems many decisions must be made. The final theme in this book is how to successfully implement the Theory of Constraints and then combine Lean Manufacturing Six Sigma and the Theory of Constraints. The Theory of Constraints should be considered the missing link in most improvement initiatives. The author presents in detail why combining the Theory of Constraints with Lean and Six Sigma and all of the associated improvement tools and techniques will take your company to new levels of profitability. He introduces two new roadmaps. One roadmap is on how to implement the Theory of Constraints while the other new roadmap is how to implement my Ultimate Improvement Cycle. | Learning from the Past Present and Future to Drive Profits to New Levels Roadmaps for Solving and Preventing Problems Making Better Decis

GBP 38.99
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Value Management in Healthcare How to Establish a Value Management Office to Support Value-Based Outcomes in Healthcare

Value Management in Healthcare How to Establish a Value Management Office to Support Value-Based Outcomes in Healthcare

Nathan Tierney’s powerful storytelling is rarely seen in today’s health care business environment. We must redesign the health care delivery system-a team sport in service of patients hold it accountable with measurement to improve outcomes and quantify the resource costs over the full cycle of care. Value-based health care is a framework through which these goals are achieved and Tierney provides a detailed playbook to get your organization there. Outlined in incredible detail and clarity he presents core concepts and dives into the key metrics needed to build maintain and scale a successful value-based health care organization. Nathan shares a realistic vision of what any CEO should expect when developing their own Value Management Office. Nothing is more important to me than improving the lives of those I love. My personal mission is to create systemic change with an impact on the global stage. This playbook needs to be on the desk of every executive clinician and patient today. -Mahek Shah MD Senior Researcher and Senior Project Leader Harvard Business SchoolOur current healthcare system’s broken. The Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) predicts health care costs could increase from 6% to 14% of GDP by 2060. The cause of this increase is due to (1) a global aging population (2) growing affluence (3) rise in chronic diseases and (4) better-informed patients; all of which raises the demand for healthcare. In 2006 Michael Porter and Elizabeth Teisberg authored the book ‘Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results. ’ In it they present their analysis of the root causes plaguing the health care industry and make the case for why providers suppliers consumers and employers should move towards a patient-centric approach that optimizes value for patients. According to Porter value for patients should be the overarching principle for our broken system. Since 2006 Professor Porter accompanied by his esteemed Harvard colleague Profesor Robert Kaplan have worked tirelessly to promote this new approach and pilot it with leading healthcare delivery organizations like Cleveland Clinic Mayo Clinic MD Anderson and U. S. Department of Veteran Affairs. Given the current state of global healthcare there is urgency to achieve widespread adoption of this new approach. The intent of this book is to equip all healthcare delivery organizations with a guide for putting the value-based concept into practice. This book defines the practice of value-based health care as Value Management. The book explores Profesor Porter’s Value Equation (Value = Outcomes/ Cost) which is central to Value Management and provides a step-by-step process for how to calculate the components of this equation. On the outcomes side the book presents the Value Realization Framework which translates organizational mission and strategy into a comprehensive set of performance measures and contextualizes the measures for healthcare delivery. The Value Realization Framework is based on Professor Kaplan's ground-breaking Balanced Scorecard approach but specific to healthcare organizations. On the costs side the book details the Harvard endorsed time-driven activity based costing (TDABC) methodology which has proven to be a modern catalyst for defining HDO costs. Finally this book covers the need and a plan to establish a Value Management Office to lead the delivery transformation and govern operations. This book is designed in a format where any organization can read it and acquire the fundamentals and methodologies of Value Management. It is intended for healthcare delivery organizations in need of learning the specifics of achieving the implementation of value-based healthcare. | Value Management in Healthcare How to Establish a Value Management Office to Support Value-Based Outcomes in Healthcare

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Creating a Lean Culture Tools to Sustain Lean Conversions Third Edition

Creating a Lean Culture Tools to Sustain Lean Conversions Third Edition

Winner of a Shingo Research and Professional Publication Award The new edition of this Shingo Prize-winning bestseller provides critical insights and approaches to make any Lean transformation an ongoing success. It shows you how to implement a sustainable successful transformation by developing a culture that has your stakeholders throughout the organizational chart involved and invested in the outcome. It teaches you how to successfully navigate the politics in cross-functional process improvement projects and to engage executives in ways that are personally meaningful to them. If you are a leader at any level in an organization undergoing or considering a Lean transformation this is where you should start and finish � and start again. Read the Reviews:This book became an instant classic in the literature of professional operations. In this third edition David Mann updates and expands his teaching with five additional years of valuable experience and expertise derived from his very active multi-industry consultancy. I have benefitted greatly from his writing and wholeheartedly recommend this book to be top-of-the desk of any serious Lean practitioner or performance transformation leader. � Raymond C. Floyd two-time Shingo Prize Winner President and CEO Plasco Energy GroupDavid Mann builds substantially on his seminal work on the Lean management system. The book is full of new insight and polishes the most important ideas about Lean management. The new chapter on engaging executive leadership alone is worth the price of the book. � Peter Ward Richard M. Ross Professor and Chair Department of Management Science Fisher College of Business The Ohio State UniversityThis book has long been my �go-to� guide on Lean management practices that help create a culture of continuous improvement and excellence. I have recommended the book to countless healthcare leaders who rave about how he | Creating a Lean Culture Tools to Sustain Lean Conversions Third Edition

GBP 180.00
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The Lean Approach to Digital Transformation From Customer to Code and From Code to Customer

The Lean Approach to Digital Transformation From Customer to Code and From Code to Customer

The Lean Approach to Digital Transformation: From Customer to Code and From Code to Customer is organized into three parts that expose and develop the three capabilities that are essential for a successful digital transformation: 1. Understanding how to co-create digital services with users whether they are customers or future customers. This ability combines observation dialogue and iterative experimentation. The approach proposed in this book is based on the Lean Startup approach according to an extended vision that combines Design Thinking and Growth Hacking. Companies must become truly customer-centric from observation and listening to co-development. The revolution of the digital age of the 21st century is that customer orientation is more imperative - the era of abundance usages rate of change complexity of experiences and shift of power towards communities - are easier using digital tools and digital communities. 2. Developing an information system (IS) that is the backbone of the digital transformation – called “exponential information system” to designate an open IS (in particular on its borders) capable of interfacing and combining with external services positioned as a player in software ecosystems and built for processing scalable and dynamic data flows. The exponential information system is constantly changing and it continuously absorbs the best of information processing technology such as Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. 3. Building software “micro-factories” that produce service platforms which are called “Lean software factories. ” This “software factory” concept covers the integration of agile methods tooling and continuous integration and deployment practices a customer-oriented product approach and a platform approach based on modularity as well as API-based architecture and openness to external stakeholders. This software micro-factory is the foundation that continuously produces and provides constantly evolving services. These three capabilities are not unique or specific to this book they are linked to other concepts such as agile methods product development according to lean principles software production approaches such as CICD (continuous integration and deployment) or DevOps. This book weaves a common frame of reference for all these approaches to derive more value from the digital transformation and to facilitate its implementation. The title of the book refers to the “lean approach to digital transformation” because the two underlying frameworks Lean Startup and Lean Software Factory are directly inspired by Lean in the sense of the Toyota Way. The Lean approach is present from the beginning to the end of this book - it provides the framework for customer orientation and the love of a job well done which are the conditions for the success of a digital transformation. | The Lean Approach to Digital Transformation From Customer to Code and From Code to Customer

GBP 32.99
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Bringing Value to Healthcare Practical Steps for Getting to a Market-Based Model

Bringing Value to Healthcare Practical Steps for Getting to a Market-Based Model

The healthcare sector is on the cusp of sweeping disruption. The hallmarks of the old system—pricing that’s disconnected from outcomes and incentives for treating sickness rather than maintaining health—are no longer sustainable. And yet after decades of financial success it’s difficult for most established industry players to grapple with meaningful changes to their business models. In their latest book Bringing Value to Healthcare: Practical Steps for Getting to a Market-Based Model Rita Numerof and Michael Abrams lay out the roadmap to a healthcare system that is accountable for delivering optimal patient outcomes at a sustainable cost. Based on in-depth research and decades of experience consulting with leading hospitals insurers and device and drug manufacturers Numerof and Abrams provide a market-based approach to addressing the ills of the current healthcare system. In addition to highlighting industry challenges and opportunities the authors also outline the changes required of consumers employers and policy makers to move to a patient-centered model characterized by value accountability and transparency. This is the handbook for payer provider pharmaceutical and medical device executives who are seeking to preserve today’s profitability while positioning their organizations for success in the very different markets of tomorrow. The book’s guidance is illuminated by case studies and each chapter concludes with a self-assessment tool and key questions. Getting to a new future isn’t easy. But if it can’t be envisioned it can’t be realized. Bringing Value to Healthcare is that critical first step. | Bringing Value to Healthcare Practical Steps for Getting to a Market-Based Model

GBP 31.99
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Planned Change Why Kurt Lewin's Social Science is Still Best Practice for Business Results Change Management and Human Progress

Planned Change Why Kurt Lewin's Social Science is Still Best Practice for Business Results Change Management and Human Progress

Gil Crosby has accomplished what most of us in the world of applied behavioral science in general and OD and T-Group training in particular have not—making the theoretical father of our work accessible. Thus this book is a gift and with it we can understand more deeply and teach others more accurately what Lewin actually stated and meant. Moreover the book is reader-friendly visually appealing and humorous rather than academically boring. Thank you Gil! Dr. W. Warner Burke E. L. Thorndike Professor of Psychology and Education Teachers College Columbia University Kurt Lewin (1890-1947) was a visionary psychologist and social scientist who used rigorous research methods to establish an approach to planned change that is both practical and reliable. He mentored and inspired most of the early professionals who came to identify themselves as practitioners of organization development (OD). He also fostered the emergence of the experiential learning method known as the T-group which uniquely structures group dynamics into a laboratory for dramatic individual and team development. In the early days most OD professionals learned much about themselves and about group dynamics through T-group experiences. Lewin’s methods though little known yield consistent business results such as increased performance and improved morale. His approaches have the rare impact of not just changing behavior but changing the beliefs that underlie behavior. Sadly most OD professionals today— business and organizational leaders community organizers and people in general—have never read any of Lewin’s actual writing beyond a quote or two. Indeed some in the OD profession have rejected or distanced themselves from what they think Lewin taught even though they and many others seem to know very little about his methods or history. Because Lewin was a prolific writer one of the author’s main goals is to organize his immense body of published work so that readers can easily explore the source material and form their own opinions. Essentially this book is aimed at introducing Lewin in a new way both simplified yet substantial enough to guide anyone who is trying to plan change whether at the individual group/team organizational or societal levels. Lewin was not trying to create methods for OD professionals alone (or for social scientists as he regarded himself). In his interventions he taught those how to do their own version of planned change. He believed social science might be the light that helps create a brighter future for humanity. This text transfers this knowledge to a broad audience so that each reader can more successfully implement organizational and social change. | Planned Change Why Kurt Lewin's Social Science is Still Best Practice for Business Results Change Management and Human Progress

GBP 28.99
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The Secret to Maximizing Profitability A Business Novel on How to Successfully Combine The Theory of Constraints Lean and Six Sigma to Dri

The Secret to Maximizing Profitability A Business Novel on How to Successfully Combine The Theory of Constraints Lean and Six Sigma to Dri

This book fully details as the title suggests the real secret to maximizing an organization's profitability. While many companies have implemented improvement initiatives such as Six Sigma and Lean Manufacturing there is a missing link which when discovered and implemented will take these same companies to profit levels not seen before. This missing link is the Theory of Constraints and when it’s combined with Lean and Six Sigma true transformational improvements are sure to follow. In this book the author walks you through the step-by-step method on how to combine these three methodologies with the result being significant improvements to flow major improvements in variation substantial reductions in waste superior on-time delivery and ultimately maximized profitability. He has been using this integrated methodology for many years and each time the results realized were well beyond what the leadership teams had experienced previously. The genesis behind this combined improvement cycle is based upon many years of analysis of both failures and successes using Lean Six Sigma and the Theory of Constraints as stand-alone improvement initiatives. By integrating Lean Six Sigma and the Theory of Constraints into a single improvement cycle the author has developed a recipe that will maximize your return on investment cash flow and net profit. The Secret to Maximizing Profitability is both stimulating and thought provoking but more importantly it will provide your organization with a roadmap for maximizing the use of your resources to achieve more bottom-line improvement than you ever imagined possible. | The Secret to Maximizing Profitability A Business Novel on How to Successfully Combine The Theory of Constraints Lean and Six Sigma to Dri

GBP 27.99
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Achieving Lean Changeover Putting SMED to Work

Achieving Lean Changeover Putting SMED to Work

Defined as the total process of converting a line or process from one product to another changeover will not only help your organization improve quality and flexibility but it will save thousands and sometimes even tens of thousands of dollars per hour. Achieving Lean Changeover: Putting SMED to Work is about the practical implementation of the single minute exchange of die (SMED) philosophy developed by Shigeo Shingo at Toyota. Although the book is principally about changeover of manufacturing packaging and assembly processes the general concepts and examples are also applicable in lighter industries that require turnover of processes including airlines hospitals operating rooms and food service. Filled with practical examples the book shares proven methods that can help you convert changeover downtime to productive uptime. It explains why reducing changeover time is important financially and provides a structured methodology to help you identify and implement improvement opportunities. The author addresses both the machinery issues with changeover/ SMED and the associated operational issues such as costs waiting times material movement documentation and product/component design. He also devotes a chapter to discussing in detail how to calculate the cost of changeover downtime an area that remains a mystery to many. Taking a holistic approach to changeover the text includes a chapter devoted to organizing changeover improvements keeping them on track and developing and implementing a formal changeover reduction program. Presenting time-tested methods and practical examples from a variety of industries it offers you the opportunity to reduce changeover time and cost and provide your organization with the flexibility needed to better satisfy your customers in three important dimensions: product variety responsiveness and price. | Achieving Lean Changeover Putting SMED to Work

GBP 170.00
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Design for Manufacturability How to Use Concurrent Engineering to Rapidly Develop High-Quality Products for Lean Production Second

Design for Manufacturability How to Use Concurrent Engineering to Rapidly Develop High-Quality Products for Lean Production Second

Achieve any cost goals in half the time and achieve stable production with quality designed in right-the-first-time. Design for Manufacturability: How to Use Concurrent Engineering to Rapidly Develop Low-Cost High-Quality Products for Lean Production is still the definitive work on DFM. This second edition extends the proven methodology to the most advanced product development process with the addition of the following new unique and original topics which have never been addressed previously. These topics show you how to: Cut cost from 1/2 to 1/10 in 9 categories—with ways to remove that much cost from product charges and pricing Commercialize innovation—starting with Manufacturable Research and learning from the new section on scalability you will learn how to design products and processing equipment to quickly scale up to any needed demand or desired growth. Design product families that can be built on-demand in platform cells that also mass customize products to-order Make Lean production easier to implement with much more effective results while making build-to-order practical with spontaneous supply chains and eliminating forecasted inventory by including an updated chapter on Designing Products for Lean Production The author’s 30 years of experience teaching companies DFM based on pre-class surveys and plant tours is the foundation of this most advanced design process. It includes incorporating dozens of proven DFM guidelines through up-front concurrent-engineering teamwork that cuts the time to stable production in half and curtails change orders for ramps rework redesign substituting cheaper parts change orders to fix the changes unstable design specs part obsolescence and late discovery of manufacturability issues at periodic design reviews. This second edition is for the whole product development community including: Engineers who want to learn the most advanced DFM techniques Managers who want to lead the most advanced product development Project team leaders who want to immediately apply all the principles taught in this book in their own micro-climate Improvement leaders and champions who want to implement the above and ensure that the company can design products and versatile processing equipment for low-volume/high-mix product varieties Designing half to a tenth of cost categories can avoid substituting cheap parts which degrades quality and encourages standardization and spontaneous supply chains which will encourage Lean initiatives. Using cellular manufacturing to shift production between lines for mixed production of platforms and build-to-order to offer the fastest order fulfillment can beat any competitors’ delivery time. | Design for Manufacturability How to Use Concurrent Engineering to Rapidly Develop High-Quality Products for Lean Production Second

GBP 56.99
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Leading with Compassion How to Make Leadership Authentic by Managing with Integrity

Leading with Compassion How to Make Leadership Authentic by Managing with Integrity

Business schools teach the transactional tools one needs to work in business. They teach various strategic planning and decision-making models such as SPACE or SWOT or decision trees or weighted grids. They teach about the various functions of an organization financial ratios and breakeven analyses. And they may even have a class on business ethics. But those tools are more about knowing where the business-case boundaries are as a risk prevention measure and do not help one to think about how they should comport themselves as a leader. This book is about helping you to become your best self and helping those around you to achieve their best. Inherently it’s about authenticity integrity and empathy and how these simple traits can lead to high performance. The book explores ways to make our leadership more authentic and to lead with integrity. It discusses how to mentor employees and how this can lead to higher-performing teams and more successful organizations. The book is organized around four major constructs. The first is about personal leadership. It starts with honesty and integrity. That provides the basis for an empathetic leadership style. This is one that helps to engage followers and brings them along because they want to come along for the journey rather than feeling forced. That is the nature of the second construct: building and maintaining high-performing teams. This is then the basis for building a trusting culture. Change is all around us and that can be exhausting. Building a culture of trust is the first step toward building an agile organizational culture. That is the third construct. Finally the last is a message of simple optimism. There are many challenges facing society today but with thoughtful engaging leaders there is hope that we can collectively rise to the challenge. | Leading with Compassion How to Make Leadership Authentic by Managing with Integrity

GBP 27.99
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Manufacturing Mastery The Path to Building Successful and Enduring Manufacturing Businesses

Manufacturing Mastery The Path to Building Successful and Enduring Manufacturing Businesses

While there are those who say manufacturing is dying it is not and will not. Without a universal vow of poverty growing economies will only increase demand. Manufacturing in the 21st century is not a question of if - Rather it is a function of why what who where and how. The nature and pace of change in those factors are overwhelming many. Fear futile resistance and uncertainty are common. While manufacturing will not die individual manufacturing companies will if they do not learn to thrive in this new world. This book is a dynamic guide for manufacturing leaders who want to reduce the ambiguity and overwhelming changes and develop a realistic progressive and responsive thinking process that enables success. It provides a business operating system framework that is the foundation for connecting the many pieces of a manufacturing business into an effective profitable operation. The author walks through the elements relationships capabilities and mutability 21st-century manufacturing requires. Executives of manufacturing companies will be better able to think about and execute viable strategies leveraging the changing economy. Essentially manufacturing is becoming increasingly complex as are business and socioeconomic and political realities. Rapidly evolving technology adds to the confusing environment that precludes “more of the same better faster and cheaper” as a workable business strategy. The tsunami of information hitting owners and leaders is overwhelming many and it is easy to become frozen in place. Economic growth and improving standards of living require that all of this change be broken into bite-size understandable pieces that thaw the minds of executives allowing them to assess what is best right now and move forward. This book does not overwhelm with details and models; rather it provides thinking and examples in small chunks that enable manufacturers to develop and master skills for high-level strategic leadership in ambiguity. | Manufacturing Mastery The Path to Building Successful and Enduring Manufacturing Businesses

GBP 31.99
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Transforming Leader Paradigms Evolve from Blanket Solutions to Problem Solving for Complexity

Transforming Leader Paradigms Evolve from Blanket Solutions to Problem Solving for Complexity

An easy read with clear examples and engaging stories this book is a treat for leaders who are interested in totally transforming the way they work. Luckman and Flory help leaders and organizations shift from a solutions mindset to a problem-solving culture that results in flow and growth where everyone in the organization can become a winner. Anand V. Tanikella Vice President R&D Abrasives Worldwide Saint-Gobain Luckman and Flory explain how to create a platform for change and a culture of meaningful continuous improvement through what they call Problem Solving for Complexity. This approach is about engaging everybody in the organization to improve every aspect of how work gets done. Read this book if you want to be a real change leader not just the person who goes around talking about the need for change. Robert Kessiakoff Coach/Consultant Partner LTGe Sweden [This book] describes how the leader through changing his or her own behaviors and practices can transform an organization that is slow to adapt into one that solves problems organically. The book is an important read for leaders and managers at all levels. Peter Ward Senior Associate Dean for Academics Richard M. Ross Chair in Management Professor of Management Sciences Director Center for Operational Excellence Ohio State University Organizational transformation is difficult and despite expensive continuous improvement programs most change efforts fail. This pattern James E. Luckman and Olga Flory argue is due to the fact that most change efforts start with senior leaders assigning an external or internal consulting group to attempt to drive change from the top down. Leaders today can no longer roll out solutions in the hopes of seeing better results. What they can do is play an active role in helping to transform their organization from blanket solutions thinking to learning how to solve complex business problems in a rapidly changing world. Drawing upon decades of leadership experience and years of research with executives across many different industries Luckman and Flory make a persuasive case that most companies have not been able to stay ahead in what is an increasingly turbulent business environment because they simply have not made the cultural changes required to do so. In discussing how to facilitate this culture change the authors share a model for leadership designed to guide an organization to extraordinary new levels of performance by focusing on three key areas: building a framework for problem-solving encouraging respectful communication and accelerating the pace at which the organization learns. The result is more energized team members who are dedicated to their daily work in an organization that is better positioned to achieve operational excellence. Readers will also find powerful stories from executives who have effectively changed their approach to leadership all of which serve to inspire more leaders to take the leap and become problem-solvers for complexity. Transforming Leader Paradigms is a book about strengthening every organization’s capacity to solve complex business problems. But more importantly it’s about what leaders must change in themselves to help their team members solve problems methodically start to look at the world differently using complexity theory and understand what it means to create real value for customers. For leaders who are willing to examine their own behaviors this book is a welcome change from the steady stream of business books on the market that emphasize charismatic and/or heroic leadership as the key to achievement and success. | Transforming Leader Paradigms Evolve from Blanket Solutions to Problem Solving for Complexity

GBP 31.99
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Creativity Innovation and Entrepreneurship The Only Way to Renew Your Organization

Creativity Innovation and Entrepreneurship The Only Way to Renew Your Organization

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) and entrepreneurs (people who transform ideas into realities). Put them altogether they spell innovator. Most innovative books today focus on ways to create new and unique ideas; some of them also address problem-solving but this is less than 10% of the methodologies that the innovator needs to master. The approaches used in this book transform an idea into reality or to put it another way deliver innovative products to make a profit for the organization and instill pride in its employees. This means that every step in the process needs to have innovation applied to it in order to meet the expectations and demands of today's sophisticated customer. This book is designed to help the reader and their organization complete the complex process of bringing a new product to market by presenting what is expected at each step in the cycle and providing step-by-step instructions on what to do at each specific step. In large to mid-sized organizations this book is designed to help each individual understand how they fit into the innovative cycle and explains why they should be more creative related to the work they do and more conscious of the contributions they can make. It emphasizes the importance of every individual contributing to the organization's innovative process. The book is designed to help the organization understand its Innovation Systems Cycle. In the early part of the cycle it focuses on weeding out projects that do not have the potential to produce value-added results to the stakeholders. By using the guidelines outlined in this book an organization can reduce its new project failure rate by as much as 50% which should result in almost doubling the organization’s new product output thereby increasing profits by as much as 15%. | Creativity Innovation and Entrepreneurship The Only Way to Renew Your Organization

GBP 27.99
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The New Entrepreneur's Guide to Setting Up and Running a Successful Business

The New Entrepreneur's Guide to Setting Up and Running a Successful Business

This is the book you will need if you are considering setting up your own business. It is aimed at the new business owner who has a lot of questions to ask. It has been written by a successful business owner and provides advice on what and what not to do. While it is not intended to be a global reference book it does provide the reader with practical answers to the issues they will come across everyday and includes examples of successes and failures from both the US and U. K. perspectives. | The New Entrepreneur's Guide to Setting Up and Running a Successful Business

GBP 31.99
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5S for the Office Organizing the Workplace to Eliminate Waste

5S for the Office Organizing the Workplace to Eliminate Waste

Although office and administrative activities are usually 60 percent of the production costs in most manufacturing organizations these areas often get excluded during lean initiatives. To achieve lean office activities must fully support shop floor manufacturing operations to eliminate waste. The adoption of 5S throughout all office and administrative functions is the first step to increase efficiency. In 5S for the Office: Organizing the Workplace to Eliminate Waste Tom Fabrizio and Don Tapping bring the concepts of the 5S System - effective tools for the elimination of waste on the shop floor - into the office environment. The activities at the heart of 5S for the Office (organizing ordering cleaning standardizing and sustaining all of these) are completely logical. They are the basic rules for managing any effective workplace. However it is the systematic method with which the 5S system approaches these activities that makes it unique. This book is a blueprint for building a Lean foundation for your office Readers of this book can immediately apply the concepts of 5S to their office and administrative activities resulting in the elimination of waste reduced production costs and increased profits. To introduce the 5S system and sell its use to executives as well as workers consider purchasing - ; 5S System: An Introduction DVD Catalog no. PP5934 Adhering to the principle of efficiency that defines this revolutionary and proven system this video succinctly explains what is involved who should participate and what it will take to get started. | 5S for the Office Organizing the Workplace to Eliminate Waste

GBP 170.00
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The Definitive Guide to Emergency Department Operational Improvement Employing Lean Principles with Current ED Best Practices to Create the

The Definitive Guide to Emergency Department Operational Improvement Employing Lean Principles with Current ED Best Practices to Create the

This revised and updated book explores the academics behind managing the complex service environment that is the Emergency Department (ED) by combining applied management science and practical experiences to create a model of how to improve operations. This book offers a presentation of Lean tools used in the ED along with basic and advanced flow principles. It then shows how these concepts are applied and why they work supported by case studies in which Lean principles were used to transform an underperforming ED into a world-class operation. After reviewing best practices the authors explain how to achieve excellence by discussing the elements of creating a culture of change. | The Definitive Guide to Emergency Department Operational Improvement Employing Lean Principles with Current ED Best Practices to Create the

GBP 68.99
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Transforming Mental Healthcare Applying Performance Improvement Methods to Mental Healthcare

Transforming Mental Healthcare Applying Performance Improvement Methods to Mental Healthcare

One in five U. S. adults experiences a mental illness within a given year. With more than 550 000 people working to support this underserved community the mental healthcare system has grappled with inadequacies and shortcomings in safety quality and care delivery. There is a wide range of problems from access-to-care issues and errors to complications stemming from poor care. Our country is also on an unsustainable path as our healthcare expenditure keeps growing. To add to all of this we are facing a rampant epidemic of burnout among healthcare workers. Modern advancements introduced with many promises—such as electronic medical records newer medications or advanced treatments—have created unique challenges when ushered into a highly regulated healthcare system. What does it take to provide patients with everything they need—the right quality of care at the right time and at the right cost—to keep them healthy? Which process steps add value? Which steps are wasteful? A widely accepted fact is that a conservative 30-50% of every step in the mental healthcare process does not help patients feel better or stay better. When considering delays in care workarounds excessive documentation and an overuse of auditing the care system has moved highly skilled clinicians away from providing value as administrative tasks continue to encroach on their time. There is a clear need to rethink and redesign the system of care. This book is a primer for understanding the current state of the mental health system and the performance improvement skills and leadership acumen needed to address existing challenges. Sheppard Pratt the award-winning leading institution for mental healthcare in America provided the focus on mental healthcare and became the laboratory for this body of work over the course of eight years. It hired a seasoned systems thinker with improvement expertise to work with mental health professionals and solve some of their most complex and chronic problems. The book is a result of the collaboration between a practicing psychiatrist in a leadership role and the systems engineer. Working together they demonstrate how to think about redesigning care and redefining the nature of work to enhance value for both the people served and the healthcare workforce. They crafted a multi-pronged approach towards culture change at Sheppard Pratt including implementing a course on Learning to Improve which introduced staff to a performance improvement methodology. There are several vignettes interwoven throughout the book that describe the complexities and constraints of the system. Solving some of these challenges creates a new paradigm of work while minimizing waste and enhancing value. | Transforming Mental Healthcare Applying Performance Improvement Methods to Mental Healthcare

GBP 38.99
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Lean Leadership for Healthcare Approaches to Lean Transformation

Lean Leadership for Healthcare Approaches to Lean Transformation

Healthcare organizations that have already applied Lean thinking to their processes with the diligence of effective management and strong leadership support are now realizing the benefits of their efforts. And many of those benefits surpass what was thought possible just a few years ago. To be successful these organizations had to provide the leadership to arrive at their future state. Written by a Shingo Prize-winning author and Lean sensei Lean Leadership for Healthcare: Approaches to Lean Transformation explains how to apply Lean improvement to both clinical and non-clinical processes. It presents valuable lessons learned by the author over the years of leading improvements in this complex industry and lays out a clear roadmap for initiating your Lean improvements. Illustrating the leadership behaviors required to achieve sustainable success the book is ideal for leaders in the healthcare industry looking to initiate Lean improvements to clinical and non-clinical processes. It reviews the fundamentals of Lean and explains how to link a strategy of continuous improvement to corporate strategy to achieve operational excellence. It also describes how to mitigate the risk of failure when undergoing large-scale corporate change including what can go wrong and how to prevent these failures. The book includes case studies that share the time-tested insights of healthcare team members and leaders. It outlines a management system for sustaining your Lean improvements and provides the Lean leadership approaches thoughts and visual tools you‘ll need to guide your organization along the path toward world-class healthcare performance. | Lean Leadership for Healthcare Approaches to Lean Transformation

GBP 175.00
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Make Your Business a Lean Business How to Create Enduring Market Leadership

Make Your Business a Lean Business How to Create Enduring Market Leadership

Make Your Business a Lean Business is a written by business leaders for business leaders as a how-to guide to building enduring market leadership. Written by authors with more than 60 years’ experience applying Lean to operations and businesses this book will allow readers to understand Lean principles and apply practices to transform their business. It also Shows readers how to transform their business to a Lean business using Lean philosophy values practice and tools Is a comprehensive Lean Enterprise Operational Management System implementation guide that defines the Lean Enterprise Business Model Uses personal author experiences throughout the book to illuminate and reinforce concepts and practices Provides insights and a roadmap so executives can take immediate action to start building a Lean business Readers will be able follow a logical path aligning their business from strategy to detailed activity thereby engaging their entire organization in becoming more competitive. It is the only true enterprise book about applying Lean to the entire business and it provides business leaders with the understanding approach and tools to plan align and transform their business starting with their core business value proposition business planning disciplined goal and resource alignment and implementation management. | Make Your Business a Lean Business How to Create Enduring Market Leadership

GBP 39.99
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Careers in Healthcare and Beyond Tools Resources and Questions to Prepare You for What’s Next

Careers in Healthcare and Beyond Tools Resources and Questions to Prepare You for What’s Next

According to the U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics some of the fastest projected job growth will occur in the healthcare healthcare support and personal care fields which accounts for almost one third of the total employment growth by 2020. Analysts suggest that the healthcare field is growing because of the long-term trends of an aging population and improved diagnosing and treatment options. Additionally technology advances in telemedicine and telehealth are allowing elderly patients to remain in their homes as they age even though their health needs are increasing. All these advances and changes to payment structures are fueling the employment growth opportunities in healthcare. This book is intended for someone curious to learn more about a career in healthcare but not certain if it is right for them or if the industry would be a good fit for them. For the person who is already interested in pursuing a career in healthcare it provides added excitement to continue on this path. For the person who is less certain it explores in a narrative format the unique opportunities that are available in healthcare and career options that are not obvious to the general public. It is designed to provide added insights and stories that will inspire one to learn more about the field of healthcare and the many opportunities to consider. It will encourage readers to explore ways to gain hands-on experience to determine what is the best approach for them to take to start this journey. This book is also intended for those who currently work in healthcare but may be considering a different job in the field. | Careers in Healthcare and Beyond Tools Resources and Questions to Prepare You for What’s Next

GBP 31.99
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Applying Entrepreneurship to the Arts How Artists Creatives and Performers Can Use Startup Principles to Build Careers and Generate Income

Applying Entrepreneurship to the Arts How Artists Creatives and Performers Can Use Startup Principles to Build Careers and Generate Income

This book puts successful startup tools in the hands of creators: performers artists entertainers creatives and media makers seeking to launch like a business and generate more income. Readers will learn essential entrepreneurial principles taught to founders in the startup community. Creatives who read this book will learn: How to launch their creative startups Ways to run and market their venture efficiently Effective methods to test new services products and experiences To incorporate their entire skill set in an authentic way That they can do all of this now without business classes or special training With actionable information real-world case studies as examples and specific steps to build business acumen from an artistic perspective this book puts entrepreneurial tools into the frameworks and mindsets of those working in creative fields. Paula Landry MBA is a creator writer/filmmaker and musician who has been teaching and coaching creatives for a decade through undergraduate and graduate programs in New York City as well as at various non-profits. | Applying Entrepreneurship to the Arts How Artists Creatives and Performers Can Use Startup Principles to Build Careers and Generate Income

GBP 31.99
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An Introduction to Nursing Informatics Evolution and Innovation 2nd Edition Evolution and Innovation

An Introduction to Nursing Informatics Evolution and Innovation 2nd Edition Evolution and Innovation

Nursing informatics (NI) is the specialty that integrates nursing science with information management and analytical sciences to identify define manage and communicate data information knowledge and wisdom in nursing practice. Nursing Informatics supports nurses consumers patients the interprofessional healthcare team and other stakeholders in a wide variety of roles and settings to achieve desired outcomes. This is accomplished through the use of information structures information processes and information technology. An Introduction to Nursing Informatics Evolution and Innovation 2nd Edition is the ideal gateway to all the professional possibilities this continuously evolving discipline has to offer. Describing the evolution of nursing informatics from its origins to current practice in today’s complex diverse healthcare environment this book offers the next generation of nurse informaticists an understanding of the discipline best practices and its scope of influence in healthcare. The book also explores Nursing Informatics as it is evolving into the future including technology creation and implementation and the development of influential policies and best practices. Special features include descriptions of the ‘a day in the life’ from informatics nurses in multiple roles and fields of influence including academia research clinical settings the executive suite consulting and government as well as an Appendix featuring case profiles. This new edition updates the content to better align with the current state of nursing informatics and expand on additional roles. New to this edition is a chapter providing tips and advice for those trying to find their first nursing informatics job or are changing their careers. Another new chapter covers healthcare analytics and how it fits into the nursing informatics role. An Introduction to Nursing Informatics Evolution and Innovation 2nd Edition is the ideal resource for nursing students and as a reference guide and pint of inspiration for nurses currently in the field. | An Introduction to Nursing Informatics Evolution and Innovation 2nd Edition Evolution and Innovation

GBP 48.99
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