Author: Craig Cochran
Publisher: Paton Press LLC
Keywords: process, improvement, continual
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2003-12
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0971323186
ISBN-13: 9780971323186

Continual improvement is not optional. It is a condition of survival. Every organization must have systematic methods for making smart decisions, attacking problems, improving its products and services, and repelling competitors. Anything less than a systematic, disciplined approach is leaving your future in the hands of chance. This book presents a range of practical methods for driving continual improvement throughout the organization. The starting point is leadership, with a clear definition of mission, strategy, and key measures. These themes are then carried throughout the enterprise,

Author: Anselm Strauss
Publisher: Aldine Transaction
Keywords: action, permutations, continual
Number of Pages: 315
Published: 2009-12-31
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0202362450
ISBN-13: 9780202362458

Author: William Truscott
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinema
Keywords: businesses, improvement, continual, sigma, six
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2003-10-01
List price: $60.95
ISBN-10: 0750657650
ISBN-13: 9780750657655

There are a number of distinctive features of this book that makes it different from other on Six Sigma. It recognizes that there are two diametrically opposing views expressed on Six Sigma, those that are strongly in favour, and those that are not, for various reasons. The book deals, head on, with the principle reasons for such hostility. It cuts through the hype associated with the brand name. It proposes simple remedies for certain defined frailties in the standard approach, particularly those related to the Sigma Measure that provides the brand name for the Six Sigma breakthrough strategy

Author: William W. Scherkenbach
Publisher: SPC PRESS (Statistical Process Control)
Keywords: improvement, continual, road, demings
Number of Pages: 327
Published: 1991-08-20
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0945320108
ISBN-13: 9780945320104

Based on the author’s management experience and years of work with Dr. Deming, this book explains Process Definition, the Voices of the Customer and the Process, lessons from the Red Bead and Funnel Experiments, the Deming Cycle, and Barriers to Change. Also included are ways to operationalize the Deming Philosophy, including Organization for Quality, Attributes of a Leader with Profound Knowledge, and the need for education

Author: George Spalding
Publisher: Stationery Office Books (TSO)
Keywords: version, itil, improvement, service, continual
Number of Pages: 221
Published: 2007-05-31
List price: $199.50
ISBN-10: 0113310498
ISBN-13: 9780113310494

Alongside the delivery of consistent, repeatable process activities as part of service quality, ITIL has always emphasized the importance of continual improvements. Focusing on the process elements involved in identifying and introducing service management improvements, this publication also deals with issues surrounding service retirement. Concepts and guidance in this publication include : * Business and technology drivers for improvement * Justification * Business, financial and organizational improvements * Methods, practices and tools * Measurement and control * Companion best practices.

Author: Jan Karon
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: collected, father, tim, celebration, comfort, feast, words, continual
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2006-02-28
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0143036564
ISBN-13: 9780143036562

For years, Mitford’s Father Tim Kavanagh has transcribed into his dog-eared journals words of wisdom, faith, and encouragement. Written in his own hand or typed on his idiosyncratic Royal typewriter, A Continual Feast contains the lively ideas, common sense, profound wisdom, and plain good humor he has gleaned from the likes of C. S. Lewis, Emily Dickinson, William Blake, Helen Keller, G. K. Chesterton, and Will Rogers, to name just a few. Together with its successful companion volume, Patches of Godlight, Father Tim’s latest quote journal is sure proof of the truth of an entry from Lord B

Author: Anselm L. Strauss
Publisher: Aldine Transaction
Keywords: social, order, communication, action, permutations, continual
Number of Pages: 295
Published: 1993-12-31
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0202304728
ISBN-13: 9780202304724

Although it has not been his intention to promulgate theory for its own sake, Anselm Strauss has proven himself a formidable theorist. What has prompted this new treatise on human action (or as Strauss would prefer, acting) was a dissatisfaction with the accounts of social phenomena in the received, mainline sociological literature. Derived from the survey and functionalist traditions, such accounts have simplified complexities drastically, and mostly left implicit the underlying action assumptions of their research. Rejecting Parsons and Lazarsfeld as models, Strauss traces the persp