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Do It Right the Second Time, Second Edition: Benchmarking Best Practices in the Quality Change Process
by Peter Merrill
Failure of a quality initiative, either in part or in whole, can happen to any organization. What differentiates successful organizations is that they learn from their failures and …
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Insights to Performance Excellence 2009-2010: An Inside Look at the 2009-2010 Baldrige Award Criteria
by Mark L. Blazey
This book helps performance-excellent examiners and organization-improvement practitioners to understand the 2009-2010 Baldrige Performance Excellence Criteria, and the linkages and relationships among its many Items. Blazey simplifies the Criteria into easily understandable and actionable items through the …
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Continuous Improvement in the Science Classroom, Second Edition
by Jeffrey J. Burgard
Schools were originally designed to provide “opportunity” to learn and used the “bell-curve” to gauge their success. The expectations have changed and schools are required to make …
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The Public Health Quality Improvement Handbook
by Ron Bialek, John W. Moran and Grace L. Duffy
Little in the current world is simple. Nothing comes in a box for us to add water and stir. There are those, however, who have been successful and who are willing to …
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ANSI/ISO/ASQ Q9001-2008: Quality Management Systems - Requirements (pocket version)
This standard specifies requirements for a quality management system where an organization:
- needs to demonstrate its ability to consistently provide product that meets customer and applicable statutory and regulatory requirements, and
- aims to enhance customer satisfaction through the effective application of the system, including processes for …
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SAE T9100 Revision C: AS9100C Quality Management Systems
This International Standard specifies requirements for a quality management system where an organization a) needs to demonstrate its ability to consistently provide product that meets customer and applicable statutory and regulatory requirements, and b) aims to enhance customer satisfaction through the effective application of the system, including processes for …
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Both ANSI/ASQ Z1.4-2008 and ANSI/ASQ Z1.9-2008 are included in this one package. These two standards replace ANSI/ASQ Z1.4-2003 and ANSI/ASQ Z1.9-2003
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HALT, HASS, and HASA Explained: Accelerated Reliability Techniques, Revised Edition
by Harry W. McLean
This groundbreaking resource book is the place where readers will find all that is required to implement a successful accelerated reliability …
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Available in May 2009!
Six Sigma Marketing: From Cutting Costs to Growing Market Share
by R. Eric Reidenbach
Six Sigma Marketing challenges the way both the Six Sigma community and the marketing area think about business and the way they currently do business. It does so by …
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Solutions to the Healthcare Quality Crisis: Cases and Examples of Lean Six Sigma in Healthcare
Søren Bisgaard, editor
Healthcare around the world is in crisis as a result of complex structural and strategic problems that will require solutions at a very high level. This book demonstrates that effective solutions based on …
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The Power of Management Innovation: 24 Keys for Fostering Innovation and Staying Competitive
by Armand V. Feigenbaum and Donald S. Feigenbaum
The Power of Management Innovation distills the information in the authors’ 2003 classic, The Power of Management Capital. Management capital is the use of innovative management techniques and the …
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Making Change Work Set: Making Change Work and Leadership, Quality and Learning
by Palmer, Brien; Pietenpol, David
As organizations strive to remain ahead of the competition, there will inevitably and often come the need for change. All successful organizations regularly use change to improve processes and increase performance. While these times of change can be …
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The Process Management Memory Jogger: Building Cross-functional Excellence
GOAL/QPC
Process excellence has been the holy grail of performance improvement methodologies (TQM, BPR, ERP, Six Sigma, Lean, BPM, etc.) for more than two decades. Still few companies have been able …
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Transformative Quality: The Emerging Revolution in Health Care Performance
by Mark Hagland
Transformative Quality: The Emerging Revolution in Health Care Performance shows readers the way forward in the gargantuan task of transforming health care quality in …
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Project Management of Complex and Embedded Systems: Ensuring Product Integrity and Program Quality
by Kim H. Pries and John M. Quigley
There are many books on project management and many on embedded systems, but few address the project management of embedded products from concept to production …
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Lean Hospitals: Improving Quality, Patient Safety, and Employee Satisfaction
by Mark Graban
Drawing on his years of working with hospitals, Mark Graban explains why and how lean can be used to improve safety, quality, and efficiency in a healthcare setting. After highlighting the benefits of …
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The Pocket Guide to the Baldrige Award Criteria, 15th Edition
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Mark Graham Brown
Updated yearly to match changing requirement, this guide is designed to help you understand the criteria for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. Most organizations that use the …
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Leadership, Quality and Learning: Three Sides of the Same Coin
by David B. Pietenpol
One of the best analogies for thinking about the relationship between leadership, quality, and learning is that of the “three sides of the same coin.” Think of leadership as “heads” and quality as …
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A culture change toward more open communication and a pillar system that focuses on six areas of performance improvement have helped make Wright Medical Center a destination of choice for healthcare in north central Iowa. The hospital’s patient satisfaction scores are among the highest in the nation …
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