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  • Second Shift: The Inside Story of the Keep GM Movement

    by David Hollister, Ray Tadgerson, David Closs, G. Tomas M. Hult ...
    The dynamic, collaborative management model that saved a U.S. manufacturing cityWhen car-making giant General Motors decided to close its plant in Lansing, Michigan, in 1996, one person—the city’s newly elected mayor—stood up and said “no.” Initially, it was the cry of a man in the wilderness. Not once in its century-long history had GM reversed a decision to close a plant. But Mayor David ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Global Supply Chain Management: Leveraging Processes, Measurements, and Tools for Strategic Corporate Advantage

    by G. Tomas M. Hult, David Closs, David Frayer ...
    LEVERAGE YOUR SUPPLY CHAIN FOR MAXIMUM PROFITDo you have a global supply chain strategy designed for the long run?About 90 percent of global demand is not fully met by local supply, and global supply chains will soon account for 25 percent of multinational firms' performance--meanwhile, supply chains need to become 43 percent more global in the next decade just to maintain a firm's competitive ... Read more

    $37.49 USD

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    Second Shift

    The Inside Story of the Keep GM Movement

    by David Hollister, Ray Tadgerson, David Closs, G. Tomas M. Hult ...

    Unabridged

    3 min

    The dynamic, collaborative management model that saved a U.S. manufacturing cityWhen car-making giant General Motors decided to close its plant in Lansing, Michigan, in 1996, one person-the city’s newly elected mayor-stood up and said “no.” Initially, it was the cry of a man in the wilderness. Not once in its century-long history had GM reversed a decision to close a plant. But Mayor David ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • New Shop Floor Management

    Empowering People for Continuous Improvement

    by Kiyoshi Suzaki ...
    In this first comprehensive departure from the time-and-motion dictums of Frederick Taylor's Shop Management that have influenced management practices for most of this century, Kiyoshi Suzaki offers a framework for successfully conducting business at its most crucial point-the shop floor. Drawing on the principles of holistic management, where organizational boundaries are smashed and co-destiny ... Read more

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  • The Toyota Way : 14 Management Principles from the World's Greatest Manufacturer: 14 Management Principles from the World's Greatest Manufacturer

    14 Management Principles From the World's Greatest Manufacturer

    by Jeffrey Liker ...
    How to speed up business processes, improve quality, and cut costs in any industryIn factories around the world, Toyota consistently makes the highest-quality cars with the fewest defects of any competing manufacturer, while using fewer man-hours, less on-hand inventory, and half the floor space of its competitors. The Toyota Way is the first book for a general audience that explains the ... Read more

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  • Toyota Kata: Managing People for Improvement, Adaptiveness and Superior Results

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    $23.39 USD

  • e-Democracy

    A Group Decision and Negotiation Perspective

    Edited by David Rios Insua, Simon French ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    Internet is starting to permeate politics much as it has previously revolutionised education, business or the arts. Thus, there is a growing interest in areas of e-government and, more recently, e-democracy. However, most attempts in this field have just envisioned standard political approaches facilitated by technology, like e-voting or e-debating. Alternatively, we could devise a more ... Read more

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  • The Reckoning

    by David Halberstam ...
    This New York Times –bestselling history is "an immense, and immensely readable, saga of the American and Japanese auto industries" ( Boston Globe ).After generations of creating high-quality automotive products, American industrialists began losing ground to the Japanese auto industry in the decades after World War II. Pulitzer Prize-winner David Halberstam, with his signature p... ... Read more

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  • Crack the WIP

    Best Practices for Work Cell Reconciliation

    by Louise Beauchamp ...
    Because work in process (WIP) is usually a very small part of the total inventory, it tends to be paid the least attention. More attention should be paid to WIP inventory because of the many variables introduced by the production processes. This book is intended to shed light on that black hole we call WIP from an inventory accuracy standpoint. In order to demystify this black hole, it is ... Read more

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  • The Toyota Way: Management Principles and Fieldbook (EBOOK)

    by Jeffrey Liker ...
    Transform your company the Toyota way!Two essential guides streamlined into a SINGLE EBOOK PACKAGEToyota. The name says it all: Innovation. Efficiency. Quality. Excellence.The Toyota Way—Management Principles and Fieldbook explains how the legendary automaker consistently achieves the highest levels of manufacturing and business success—and how you can achieve similar results with your own ... Read more

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  • Essays in Production, Project Planning and Scheduling

    A Festschrift in Honor of Salah Elmaghraby

    Edited by P. Simin Pulat, Subhash C. Sarin, Reha Uzsoy ...
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    From the Preface:This festschrift is devoted to recognize the career of a man who not only witnessed the growth of operations research from its inception, but also contributed significantly to this growth. Dr. Salah E. Elmaghraby received his doctorate degree from Cornell University in 1958, and since then, his scholarly contributions have enriched the fields of production planning and scheduling ... Read more

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