Out of the present crisis : rediscovering improvement in the new economy /: rediscovering improvement in the new economy. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Terence T. Burton.
• Authors: Burton, Terence T, 1950-
• Contents: The Seeds of Continuous Improvement; Introduction; Continuous Improvement: A Brief History for the Uninitiated; My Early Lessons in Continuous Improvement; Grandpa Harrington’s Farm Off to the University Benny, the Shop Steward The Latest Wave of Improvement; Improvement Excellence™: The New Model of Improvement Reinventing Deming’s Fourteen Points; Infrastructure: The Foundation of Continuous Improvement; Behavioral Alignment: The Bedrock beneath the Foundation; Summary Points; Bibliography Infrastructure Overview: Accelerating Continuous Improvement; Introduction; A Quick Lesson on the Basic Essentials The Improvement Bathtub Curve The Relationship between Diminishing Value and Waste Payoffs through Layoffs Are Not Improvement The Next Generation of Improvement; The Philosophy of Improvement Excellence™ The Improvement Excellence™ Framework; "DMAIC " the Common Language of Improvement ; Implementation Infrastructure Building the Sustaining Improvement Infrastructure Infrastructure Element: Strategic Leadership and Vision Infrastructure Element: Deployment Planning Infrastructure Element: Execution Scalable Lean Six Sigma™; Continuous Improvement: No Longer a Fad or Option; Bibliography Leadership: Building A High-Performance Culture; Introduction; Leadership Transformation in the New Economy; History Lesson: Is Leadership the Real Problem?; A Root Cause Analysis on Leadership; Breaking Out of the Leadership Quagmire; The Most Important Choice: Behavioral Alignment; Behavioral Alignment Begins in the Executive Suite; So, How Do We Align Organizational Behaviors?; Best Practice Leadership Behaviors; Vision; Knowledge; Passion; Discipline; Conscience; Excellence Is a Journey; Begin the Journey Right; It Is Time to Go Downtown; Bibliography Setting a Renewed Course of Improvement; Introduction; The Philosophy of Improvement; Innovation Requires Enlightened Leadership; Maslow Upside Down; Business Diagnostic: The Fact-Based Foundation; Executive Education and Development; Improvement Strategy and Vision; The Formal Leadership Implementation Infrastructure; Policy Deployment: Prioritizing and Cascading Target Opportunities; Continuous Improvement Rediscovered and Under Way; Bibliography Deployment Planning for Rapid and Sustainable Results; Introduction; The Consequences of Poor Deployment Planning; Developing the Deployment Plan; How to Develop the Deployment Plan; The Macrocharter; Project Selection; Project/Resource Alignment; Team Assignment; Project Charter; Microcharters; More Than a Plan; Customized Education and Talent Development; How to Tailor Education to Business Improvement Requirements; Communication and Stakeholder Engagement; Developing an Effective Communications Strategy; Getting Off to an Unstoppable Start; Basic Change Management Essentials; The Power of Power HitsBibliography Execution and Sustainability; Introduction; Thawing Out the Freeze; Launching with the Best in Mind; The Components of Talent Management; Leveraged Mentoring; Proven Continuous Improvement Expertise; Business Process Experience; Knowledge of Best Practices; Multi-Industry Executive Experience; Integration of Enabling Technology; "DMAIC " the Process of Continuous Improvement; The Continuous Process of Financial Validation; Accelerate Individual Project Paths; Integration of Improvement Methodologies; Appreciate the Simple Stuff: Checklists, Templates, Visuals, Flags, and Paeans; Complete the C in Control; Concurrent Continuous Improvement; Improving How We Improve; Translate the Systematic Process into Breakthrough Results; Bibliography Transforming Culture through Internalization; Introduction; The Cultural Checkup; The Broken Moral Compass; The Dynamics of Culture Change; Velocity of Improvement; Magnitude of Improvement; Sustainability and Adaptability of Improvement Process; Critical Mass Acceptance; What Is Internalization?; Projection; Introjection; Identification; Incorporation; Socialization: The Operating System of Internalization; Measuring the Success of Continuous Improvement; Strategic Leadership and Vision Metrics; Deployment Planning Metrics; Execution Metrics; Great Cultures Attract Success; Bibliography The Role of Technology in Strategic Improvement; Introduction; The Changing Role of CIOs; The Emergence of Transactional Enterprises; Technology Is Not Stopping for Complacency; Avoiding Technology Entrapment; Technology Enables Rapid Deployment, Rapid Results; Scrubbing And Removing the Black-and-White Spaces; The Fusion of Technology and Improvement; Technology: The Superaccelerator to Cloud Improvement; Bibliography The Multimillion-Dollar List of Improvement Opportunities in Manufacturing, Distribution, and Service Corporations; Introduction; Strategic Management; Strategic Planning Process; Acquisition and Integration; Global Outsourcing Strategy; New Product Development; Concept Development; New Product and Services Development Process; Software Development Process; Global Commercialization; Global Supply Chain Management; Sales and Operations Planning (Single-Plan Concept Sales, Operations, Finance); &a
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: New York : Productivity Press
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 658.4013; Total quality management; Organizational effectiveness; Continuous improvement process; Strategic planning
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781466566866
• Related ISBNs: 9781315300351; 9781466566873; 9781466504448
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