Productivity Press
(Productivity Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- Instead of building new hospitals that import old systems and problems, the time has come to reexamine many of our ideas about what a hospital should be. Can a...
Productivity Press
(Productivity Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- How do you take talented engineers and surround them with the elements needed to create brilliant designs that lead to market-changing products? A lean...
Productivity Press
(Productivity Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- For visionary leaders, an organizational master plan and associated technologies have become essential components of strategic decision making. Written for...
Productivity Press
(Productivity Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- Self-balancing is not just a tweak or change to the formula used to determine assembly line balancing, but a completely transformed method for achieving...
Productivity Press
(Productivity Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- As a society, we tend to reward problem solvers rather than those who prevent problems at their source. In other words, we focus on after-the-fact occurrences...
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(Productivity Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- There are many books that seek to explain lean and agile software development that offer theory, techniques, and examples. Michael K. Levine’s first book, A...
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(Productivity Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- After nearly a year of debate, in March 2010, Congress passed and the president signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to reform the U.S. health...
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(Productivity Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- In the same way that a well-defined approach is needed to develop an effective strategic plan, an equally well-designed approach is needed to support the...
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(Productivity Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- Most business readers have heard of the lean principles developed for factories—a set of tools and ideas that have enabled companies to dramatically boost...
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(Productivity Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- Building on the success of Mark Graban’s Shingo Prize-winning first edition in 2009, Lean Hospitals: Improving Quality, Patient Safety, and Employee...