Kategoria BISAC: Business & Economics >> Operations Research

Use your next three-day weekend to develop valuable Lean Six Sigma skills

With the integration of Lean and Six Sigma, businesses have a potent tool in the never-ending drive to deliver top-quality service and products. But you don't need to be a Black Belt to build quality and efficiency into all areas of your operation; you just need The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Course: Lean Six Sigma.

Sheila Shaffie and Shahbaz Shahbazi, leading Six Sigma experts and trainers, put you on the fast track to Lean Six Sigma expertise. Featuring a detailed overview of Lean and Six Sigma...

Your organizational transformation begins here

Comprehensive, detailed, and easy to read and understand, How to Succeed with Continuous Improvement takes you through a real-life case study of one organization's journey to a world-class continuous improvement process.

Joakim Ahlstrom--one of the world's most respected continuous improvement experts--serves as your coach. He first helps you decide whether you want to embark on the continuous improvement journey and takes you through the entire process step by step, all the way through generating remarkable business results...

Data is your most valuable leadership asset--here's how to use it

The Data Driven Leader presents a clear, accessible guide to solving important leadership challenges through human resources-focused and other data analytics. This engaging book shows you how to transform the HR function and overall organizational effectiveness by using data to make decisions grounded in facts vs. opinions, identify root causes behind your company's thorniest problems and move toward a winning, future-focused business strategy. Realistic and actionable, this book tells the story of a...

Recognize, develop, and embody great leadership

Seven Disciplines of A Leader is a comprehensive manual for building better leaders. Author and executive coach Jeff Wolf is a respected authority on leadership, and his strategies and inspiration have fostered dramatic growth in some of the nation's top companies. In this book, he shares the secrets of great leadership to help readers align professional development and exemplify these traits themselves. Each of the Disciplines is valuable on its own, but together they add up to more than a sum of their parts, and work...

The secrets to improving operations while maintaining the highest quality

How do you operate at maximum efficiency with minimum cost? Manager's Guide to Operations Management addresses one of the most pressing business issues of our time by offering easy-toimplement advice on creating the most effective, streamlined operations possible. This quick-reference guide explains how to:

• Improve your production processes
• Boost quality using the Six Sigma approach
• Manage supply chains and inventory
• Forecast, plan, and schedule efficiently

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This book presents state-of-the-art research and practice in optimization routing, specifically the vehicle routing problem (VRP).   Since its introduction in the late 1950s, the VRP has been a very significant area of research and practice in operations research.  Vehicles are used to make deliveries and for pick-ups every day and everywhere.  Companies such as Amazon, UPS, FedEx, and DHL use route optimization to reduce mileage, fuel use, number of trucks on the road, and carbon dioxide emissions.  The authors compile and analyze 135 survey and review articles on vehicle routing topics...