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Taylor & Francis Ltd Making Sense of Data and Information Management Extra
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Taylor & Francis Project Management
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Quality and Operations Management
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Taylor & Francis Development for High Performance Revised Edition Management Extra
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Taylor & Francis Information and Knowledge Management Revised Edition
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Elsevier Science Adiabatic Shear Localization
Trade Review"Dodd and Bai wrote the 1992 first edition as an introduction to adiabatic shear bands. They figure they did a good job because the field has grown so huge that by the time they wanted to update their book, they needed to call specialists to cover various aspects. It remains an introduction, they say, but now to a thriving discipline."--Reference and Research Book News, December 2012Table of Contents1. Introduction (Dodd and Bai) 2. Experimental Methods (Meyer and Pursche) 3. Microstructural Aspects of Shear Localization Under High-Strain Rates for Materials (Xu and Meyers) 4. Analysis of Adiabatic Shear Bands by Numerical Simulation (Batra) 5. Current Status of the Theory of Adiabatic Shear Bands (Wright) 6. Adiabatic Shear Bands in Ammunition and Targets (Couque) 7. Explosives (Walley) 8. Shear Bands in Bulk Metallic Glasses (Bai) 9. Dynamic Failure of Amorphous Polymers (Swallowe) 10. Geological Aspects of Shear (Sulem) 11. Bibliography (Walley)
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Breakthrough Technology Project Management
Although there are many books of methods and tools in different areas, few books actually give detailed tips and lessons on how to effectively set up and manage projects. Most books on project management devote all their space to specific methods. Breakthrough Technology Project Management, Second Edition provides tangible guidelines through examples and suggestions to help people participate in and manage projects more effectively. The authors'' techniques and guidelines have been proven over the past 15 years in courses and counseling. This book is a valuable tool for those working in information systems, engineering, computer science, operations and production, and other environments involving project management.
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Taylor & Francis Rethinking Global Production Routledge Revivals
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Taylor & Francis Rethinking Global Production Routledge Revivals
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Taylor & Francis Employee Empowerment
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Taylor & Francis Lean for the Process Industries
Book SynopsisCompared to its widespread implementation across almost all areas of production, Lean improvement efforts lag within the process industries. While many innovators have successfully applied Lean principles to these industries during the past three decades, most of those pioneering efforts were never recorded to guide the improvement efforts of others.Drawing on more than 40 years of application experience at one of the world's largest chemical and materials manufacturers, coupled with 10 years in private practice, Peter King corrects this void by providing the first comprehensive resource written explicitly for change agents within the process industries. Focusing on areas where the improvement needs of the process industry differ from parts assembly manufacturing, Lean for the Process Industries: Dealing with Complexity, Second Edition: Covers each of the eight wastes commonly described in Lean literature, looking at how they manifest themselves in procesTrade ReviewKing provides an excellent, comprehensive guide for applying Lean to the Process industry. Not only is the book a great guide, but he captures the key pitfalls and ways to avoid on a journey to establish a sustainable Lean system. A great reference for all Lean efforts.-- David M. Rurak, Chief Supply Chain Officer, W.L. Gore & Associates The first edition of this book was a stand-out text, breaking down the myths of Lean in the Process industry. It’s great to see an updated version to push the knowledge and understanding further - a must read. -- Paul Griffiths, Senior Lean Manufacturing Manager EMEA, GE Healthcare This book is a must read for Lean practitioners working in food, chemicals and pharma industries. The first edition allowed us to solve the mystery of how to adapt our eVSM software, which had been very successful in mapping discrete parts manufacturing, to illustrate the complexities of process operations. Peter's knowledge of this industry over more than four decades comes through clearly from the pages.-- Dilesh Patel, CEO, The eVSM Group I am very impressed with the writing style – simple, clear, to the point – so it is easy to read. The pace is right – sufficient detail balanced with a natural flow. [Readers feel they] are making progress in every paragraph – which is rare to experience in these kinds of books. -- Noel Peberdy, President, Zinata Consulting King provides an excellent, comprehensive guide for applying Lean to the Process industry. Not only is the book a great guide, but he captures the key pitfalls and ways to avoid on a journey to establish a sustainable Lean system. A great reference for all Lean efforts.-- David M. Rurak, Chief Supply Chain Officer, W.L. Gore & Associates The first edition of this book was a stand-out text, breaking down the myths of Lean in the Process industry. It’s great to see an updated version to push the knowledge and understanding further - a must read. -- Paul Griffiths, Senior Lean Manufacturing Manager EMEA, GE Healthcare This book is a must read for Lean practitioners working in food, chemicals and pharma industries. The first edition allowed us to solve the mystery of how to adapt our eVSM software, which had been very successful in mapping discrete parts manufacturing, to illustrate the complexities of process operations. Peter's knowledge of this industry over more than four decades comes through clearly from the pages.-- Dilesh Patel, CEO, The eVSM Group I am very impressed with the writing style – simple, clear, to the point – so it is easy to read. The pace is right – sufficient detail balanced with a natural flow. [Readers feel they] are making progress in every paragraph – which is rare to experience in these kinds of books. -- Noel Peberdy, President, Zinata Consulting Table of ContentsIntroduction: Lean Overview The Process Industries: what makes them unique Value Stream Mapping the Process Industries The Basics: Kaizen Events The 8 Wastes in the Process Industries Set-up reduction & SMED Total Productive Maintenance Visual Management Dealing with Complexity: Finding, managing, and improving Bottlenecks Cell design in the Process Industries Production scheduling, production sequencing, production leveling: Product Wheels Lead time improvement Postponement: Finish-to-Order Pull Systems Supermarket design Fixed interval replenishment Fixed quantity replenishment Managing variability: Safety Stock Creating the Future State Map The importance of robust business processes Appendix: The Hypothetical Process description and data
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Taylor & Francis Ltd How to Coach for Creativity and Service Excellence A Lean Coaching Workbook
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Project Management of Large SoftwareIntensive Systems
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Taylor & Francis Ltd ISO 9001 and Lean Friends Not Foes For Providing Efficiency and Customer Value
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Configuration Management Second Edition
Book SynopsisThe book provides a comprehensive approach to configuration management from a variety of product development perspectives, including embedded and IT. It provides authoritative advice on how to extend products for a variety of markets due to configuration options. The book also describes the importance of configuration management to other parts of the organization. It supplies an overview of configuration management and its process elements to provide readers with a contextual understanding of the theory, practice, and application of CM. The book illustrates the interplay of configuration and data management with all enterprise resources during each phase of a product lifecycle.Table of Contents1. Overview of the Product Life Cycle.2. Overview of the Supporting Enterprise Infrastructure.3. Configuration Management and Product Management. 4. A Configuration Item and What It Implies. 5. Data Definition, Data Types, and Control Requirements. 6. Configuration Management. 7. Configuration Management Support of Functional Resources. 8. Functional Interfaces.9. Configuration Management Baselines. 10. Configuration Control. 11. When Things Go Wrong.12. Test, Inspection, and Evaluation Master Plan Organized. 13. Assessing and Mitigating Risk.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Enterprise Agility in Healthcare
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Taylor & Francis The TLS Continuum Field Guide
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Taylor & Francis Project Management Its All Bollocks
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Taylor & Francis The Façade of Excellence
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Lean Implementation in Hospital Departments How to Move from Good to Great Services
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Effective Processes for Quality Assurance
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Taylor & Francis The Projectification of the Public Sector
Book SynopsisIn recent decades, we have witnessed an increasing use of projects and similar temporary modes of organising in the public sector of nations in Europe and around the world. While for some this is a welcome development which unlocks entrepreneurial zeal and renders public services more flexible and accountable, others argue that this seeks to depoliticise policy initiatives, rendering them increasingly technocratic, and that the project organisations formed in this process offer fragmented and unsustainable short-term solutions to long-term problems.This volume sets out to address public sector projectification by drawing together research from a range of academic fields to develop a critical and theoretically-informed understanding of the causes, nature, and consequences of the projectification of the public sector. This book includes 13 chapters and is organised into three parts. The first part centres on the politics of projectification, specifically the role of projects inTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsPreface and Acknowledgements Introduction Policy Pilots as Public Sector Projects: The Projectification of Policy and Research Why is Innovation Policy Projectified? Political Causes in the Case of Sweden Problematising the Project System: Rural Development in Indonesia Public Sector Innovation Projects: Beyond Bureaucracy and Market? In and Out of Amber: the New Zealand Government Major Projects Performance Reporting Project Management in the Shadow of Public Human Services Pilots as Projects: Policy Making in a State of Exception Project Governance in an Embedded State: Opportunities and Challenges The European Dimension of Projectification. Implications of the Project Approach in EU Funding Policy Agents, Techniques, and Tools of Projectification Observing the Process of Culture Projectification and its Agents: A Case Study of Kraków Standardisation and Its Consequences in Health Care: A Case Study of PRINCE2 Project Management Training The Freelance Project Manager as an Agent of Governmentality: Evidence from a UK Local Authority Notes on Contributors Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Stakeholder Perspective
Book SynopsisThe Stakeholder Perspective places people at the center of both projects and project management. It gives to the project management community a helpful, innovative, stakeholder-centered approach to increase projects' delivered value and success rate. It presents a logical model also called the Stakeholder Perspective, which acts as the reference point in a structured path to effectiveness. Starting from the analysis of a project's stakeholders, the model integrates both rational and relational innovative approaches. Its continuous focus on stakeholder requirements and expectations helps to set a proper path, and to maintain it, in order to target success and to achieve goals in a variety of projects with different size and complexity. The book presents a set of innovative and immediately applicable techniques for effective stakeholder identification and classification, as well as analysis of stakeholder requirements and expectations, key stakeholders management, stakeholder nTable of ContentsI.THE STAKEHOLDER PERSPECTIVE. 1. Stakeholder, Who are They? 2. The Recent Central Role of Stakeholders in Project Management. 3. Stakeholder Identification: Integrating Multiple Classification and Behavioral Models. 4. Stakeholder Analysis: a Systemic Approach. 5. Key Stakeholders Management: Principles of Effective Direct Communication. 6. Stakeholder Network Management: Informative and Interactive Communication. 7. Basic Personal and Interpersonal Skills: Personal Mastery, Leadership, Teaming. 8. Ethics in Stakeholder Relations. II. THE RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT PROJECT. 9. Stakeholder Relations and Delivered Value: an Indissoluble Link. 10. Satisfying Stakeholder Requirements and Expectations: the Critical Success Factor. 11. Facing Successfully Different Levels of Project Complexity. 12. Targeting both Project and Business Value Generation by using KPIs. 13. Relationship Management Project: A Structured Path to Effectiveness. 14. New Stakeholder-Centered Trends: Project Management X.0.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd ISO 9001 and Lean Friends Not Foes for Providing
Book SynopsisISO 9000 is a comprehensive set of international standards for quality management and quality assurance. These standards ensure that companies effectively document all aspects of their quality management to show transparency and efficiency within all processes. They are not industry specific and pertain to organizations of any size. Continuous improvement is a key facet of the ISO 9001 standard (the particular standard that specifies requirements for a quality management system), but it does not explain how to implement or maintain this improvement. Lean production methodologies surely provide this crucial and tactical information. Adding Lean production methodologies to quality management systems effectively focuses these improvement activities. In the long run, it will save companies much time and money.This book, written in the novel format, discusses the symbiotic relationship between ISO 9001 and Lean as both can be seamlessly integrated. It shows hoTable of ContentsAbout the Author. Preface. Chapter 1 AOP: Acronym-o-phobia. Chapter 2 The Real Issue. Chapter 3 ISO What?Chapter 4 Lean on Me When You’re Not Strong. Chapter 5 It’s Not Always Bad to Bring Work Home with You. Chapter 6 One for All and All for One. Chapter 7 Friends at Last. Chapter 8 Keep Things Rolling. Chapter 9 Letting off Some Steam. Chapter 10 Getting Total Leadership Buy-In. Chapter 11 History Repeats Itself; Historians Repeat Each Other. Chapter 12 Excellence in Leadership.
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Taylor & Francis Managing Knowledge in Project Environments Fundamentals of Project Management
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Taylor & Francis Quality Management Systems
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Taylor & Francis Quality Management Systems
This book provides a clear, easy to digest overview of Quality Management Systems (QMS). Critically, it offers the reader an explanation of the International Standards Organisation’s (ISO) requirement that in future all new and existing Management Systems Standards will need to have Annex SL.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Design for Manufacturability
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Fundamentals of Aviation Operations
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Taylor & Francis The Strategic Planning and Deployment Excellence System SPADES
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Taylor & Francis Ltd IT Project Health Checks
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Taylor & Francis Ltd International Examples of Lean in Healthcare
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Taylor & Francis A Magnificent Journey to Excellence Sixteen Years
Book SynopsisThis book presents a model of organization transformation success. The model is illustrated through description and analysis of an actual, two-decade, highly successful, global enterprise transformation Six Sigma program at a Fortune 200 company -- Cummins, Inc. Table of ContentsList of Figures and TablesList of Acronyms and AbbreviationsForeword – Change by Frank McDonaldAbout the AuthorsChapter 1: Introduction and PurposeChapter 2: Interview with Tim Solso, Cummins CEO 2000-2011Chapter 3: Six Sigma Pre-HistoryChapter 4: The Bottom Line: ResultsChapter 5: S-Curves and Kano – Maturity and SustainabilityChapter 6: Interview with Frank McDonald – Cummins Vice President of Quality (1999-2002)Chapter 7: S-Curve 1 – Pre-launch Chapter 8: S-Curve 2 – Launch and First ProjectsChapter 9: Preparing for the Next S-Curve – Cross-Curve Analysis: A SummaryChapter 10: Interview with Joe Loughrey – Cummins President & COO (2005-2008)Chapter 11: Moving from First Training and Projects S-Curve to the Building a Foundation S-CurveChapter 12: Interview with Michelle Dunlap – Master Black Belt, Quality ChampionChapter 13: Interview with Dana Vogt – Black Belt, Master Black Belt, Quality ChampionChapter 14: S-Curve 3 – Building a FoundationChapter 15: Moving from Building a Foundation to the Self-Supporting S-CurveChapter 16: Interview with Megan Henry – Black Belt, Master Black Belt, Six Sigma LeaderChapter 17: S-Curve 4 – Self-SupportingChapter 18: Interview with Ginger Lirette – Black BeltChapter 19: Moving from Self-Supporting to the Business Integration S-CurveChapter 20: Interview with Tom Linebarger– Cummins CEO (2011+)Chapter 21: S-Curve 5 – Business IntegrationChapter 22: Moving from Business Integration to Continued Growth and Expansion and Business System Improvement S-CurvesChapter 23: S-Curve 6 – Continued Growth and ExpansionChapter 24: Interview with Julie Liu – Black Belt, Quality Champion, Six Sigma LeaderChapter 25: S-Curve 7 – Business System ImprovementChapter 26: Interview with Holly Duarte - Black BeltChapter 27: The Effect of Maturity on Organizational CommunicationChapter 28: How to use S-CurvesChapter 29: Important Considerations for a Healthy Long-Term Six Sigma DeploymentChapter 30: Special SituationsChapter 31: ConclusionsChapter 32: Final ThoughtsAppendicesIndex
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Taylor & Francis Delivering Fantastic Customer Experience
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Taylor & Francis Halal Logistics and Supply Chain Management in Southeast Asia Islamic Business and Finance Series
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Taylor & Francis Agricultural Growth Productivity and Regional Change in India
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Art of Safety Auditing A Tutorial for Regulators
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Food Supply Chain Management
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Art of Safety Auditing A Tutorial for
Book SynopsisThe Art of Safety Auditing: A Tutorial for Regulators provides the theory and practice of auditing safety management systems implemented by the companies in risk industries. With his extensive knowledge and experiences in quality and safety, Sasho Andonov provides the tools to fill the gap in regulatory auditing for safety management systems. The book explains in detail the overall process of auditing with emphasis on practical execution of audits by Safety Regulators in each State or International Organizations. This book presents real examples and outlines every aspect of regulations and oversight audits in high risk industries.FEATURES Offers all theoretical and practical aspects of safety audits Dedicated to regulatory bodies and companies in high risk industries Provides a holistic approach to auditing as part of regulatory oversight activities Discusses most common mistakes during audits and advices how to correct them<Table of Contents1 Introduction 2 Clarifications of General Terms 3 Regulation 4 Types of Audits 5 Companies and Audits 6 Check Lists (CLs) 7 Management of Findings 8 Preparation for Audit 9 Conducting the Audit 10 "Challenges" for the Auditor during Audits 11 Profile of the Auditor
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Taylor & Francis Risk Management in Supply Chains
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Reducing Process Costs with Lean Six Sigma and
Book SynopsisA company with effective cost reduction activities in place will be better positioned to adapt to shifting economic conditions. In fact, it can make the difference between organizations that thrive and those that simply survive during times of economic uncertainty. Reducing Process Costs with Lean, Six Sigma, and Value Engineering Techniques covers the methods and techniques currently available for lowering the costs of products, processes, and services.Describing why cost reductions can be just as powerful as revenue increases, the book arms readers with the understanding required to select the best solution for their company's culture and capabilities. It emphasizes home-grown techniques that do not require the implementation of any new methodologiesmaking it easy to apply them in any organization.The authors explain how to reduce costs through traditional Lean methods and Lean Six Sigma. They also present Six Sigma cost savings techniques fTable of ContentsIntroduction. Saving Money with Homegrown Ideas. Arbitrary Cost Down Approach. Rubric for Costing Down. The Isuzu Approach to Tear Downs. The DOD Approach. Classical Value Analysis / Value Engineering Techniques. Classical Techniques. Saving Money with Six Sigma Projects. Saving Money with Lean Manufacturing. Saving Money with Optimization. Regaining Money with Cost Recovery. Other Methods. Finding Cost Reductions. When Cost Improvement Goes Wrong.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Improving Reliability and Quality for Product Success
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Models of Network Reliability
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