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A Guide to Continuous Improvement Transformation:
Concepts, Processes, Implementation
Aristide van Aartsengel and Selahattin Kurtoglu
Series: Management for Professionals
Content Level: Professional/practitioner
- Presents a short but comprehensive overview of "Continuous Improvement" transformation and its key characteristics.
- Provides guidance on the implementation of a "Continuous Improvement" initiative.
- Delivers tools to quickly assess where an enterprise or business stands in terms of strategic management and "continuous Improvement."
From the back cover:
This book enables enterprise business leaders - from CEOs to supervisors - to understand what "Continuous Improvement" is, why it is probably the best answer to improved business performance in years, and how to put it to work in the unique environment of a specific organization. The book examines the core of the art of "Continuous Improvement" and delves deeper into the elements and constituent necessary to take an organization to the next level to continue to exist in the long term. It provides guidance to enterprise management and to professionals engaged in the implementation of a "Continuous Improvement" initiative and enables them to structure and manage its implementation successfully. It also provides tools to quickly assess where an enterprise business stands in terms of strategic management and "Continuous Improvement".
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Handbook on Continuous Improvement Transformation:
The Lean Six Sigma Framework and Systematic Methodology for Implementation
Aristide van Aartsengel and Selahattin Kurtoglu
Series: Management for Professionals
Content Level: Professional/practitioner
- Provides a framework and systematic methodology for "Continuous Improvement" transformation.
- Based on a global project management standard (PMI - PMBOK).
- Connects the Lean Six-Sigma model with the PDSA cycle.
From the back cover:
This handbook provides a comprehensive and detailed framework for the implementation of "Continuous Improvement" and Lean Six Sigma in a professional project management environment. For this purpose the book brings together Lean Six Sigma and the PMBOK standard for project management. It provides an integrated approach, which can be used for both transactional and manufacturing businesses to better define ways to reduce costs, enhance processes ,and achieve faster implementation and new product or service development. The reader is guided carefully and reliably through the detailed procedures introduced in this book using a comprehensive, conceptual and practical well-balanced approach.