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HPI Essentials
George Piskurich Manufacturer: ASTD ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1562863150 |
Book Description
Here's a basic primer for business solutions using a performance approach that gives you practical insights from expert practitioners. Learn how the Human Performance Improvement (HPI) process works in the real world and how to conduct performance, gap, and cause analysis. Explore key types of interventions including structure/process and knowledge.Customer Reviews:
HPI essentials review.......2007-05-13
Great overview of HPI.......2005-10-24
Indispensable introduction to HPI.......2004-05-29
The Chapters closely follow the HPI model itself and are divided into:
1: What is HPI? A brief and very useful introduction to HPI and the HPI Model.
2: Business analysis - The first step in any HPI Process and vital for the final evaluation stage.
3: Performance analysis - How to link business goals to performance goals
4: Gap analysis - Evaluating the difference between the desired and actual performance levels.
5: Cause analysis - Why do performance gaps exist? This chapter emphasizes the need to address root causes and not symptoms.
6: Selecting an HPI project - Now that you understand the basics, select your first HPI project.
7: Motivational interventions. This chapter is written by Sivasailam Thiagarajan "Thiagi" and is an excellent primer on implementing solutions to address motivational issues in an organization.
8: Designing & developing structure/process interventions - Divided into organizational and systems aspects this is one of the best introductions to process interventions I've come across.
9: Knowledge interventions - This chapter has a multitude of practical guidelines and suggestions for optimizing training and focuses on the fact that training is not always the answer.
10: Stakeholder involvement - Guidelines for identifying stakeholders and ensuring their involvement and buy-in.
11: Evaluation - Using the Results-based approach of HPI, this chapter guides you through the steps needed to demonstrate the value-added to the organziation through the HPI project.
12: Performance Consultant - the job - Dana Gaines explains in a straightforward manner exactly what does an HPI Consultant do and helps the reader create a personal development plan for HPI consulting competencies.
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Sales and Marketing the Six Sigma Way
Manufacturer: Kaplan Business ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 1419521500 Release Date: 2006-08-01 |
Book Description
Quality management. Process mapping. Speed to production. In the past 50 years, a rigorous, measurement-based methodology called Six Sigma has brought production management to previously unimaginable levels of success and sophistication. Top corporations such as Motorola and GE have built their reputations, products, and revenues using this approach. Indeed, Six Sigma has found widespread application in every significant industry and business—except marketing and sales.
In Sales and Marketing the Six Sigma Way, sales and quality guru Michael Webb shows how to blend marketing and sales efforts with the cutting-edge methods of Six Sigma to boost their bottom lines. With Webb’s book as a guide, readers learn to engineer rapid routes to customer value, accurately predict future revenue, and ensure return on investment for their projects.
In Sales and Marketing the Six Sigma Way, you will:
* Find out why ""the usual fixes"" for sales problems don't work
* Meet executives who have used Six Sigma to imrpove marketing and sales results
* See the pitfalls that await the unwary when applying process improvement in sales
* Learn how to introduce Six Sigma to sales and marketing professionals
* Discover through examples and cases how to manage sales as a process
Webb walks readers through several Six Sigma sales and marketing projects from start to finish, highlighting the tools, decisions, and results that made them successful. He shows the practical methods managers use to translate process improvement principles to the human world of selling and marketing.
With his dual background in sales and marketing management and in quality improvement, Webb speaks clearly to readers in both disciplines. This makes Sales and Marketing the Six Sigma Way the indispensible guide for sales and marketing professionals who want to excel in today's business environment, and for quality improvement experts who want to help them.
Customer Reviews:
Exceptional book for improving results.......2007-10-14
A Must Read for CEOs Tired of Same Old Sales Excuses.......2007-08-17
It's a PE Book.......2007-07-24
Merging Six Sigma with Sales & Marketing.......2007-07-20
Sales & Marketing the Six Sigma Way.......2007-04-03
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The Lean Manufacturing Employee Training Manual
Kenneth W. Dailey Manufacturer: DW Publishing Co. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0974722146 |
Book Description
The Lean Manufacturing Employee Training Manual is intended as a training manual / study guide for touch labor and support personnel. It is written in an easy to understand manner and can be readily comprehended the average employee with a minimum of clarifications.The book covers all of the basic topics of Lean Manufacturing: JIT, The Value Stream, The Seven Wastes and Fourteen Techniques. The manual emphasizes and facilitates the widest possible participation in the implementation and maintenance of a Lean Manufacturing Program. It will make the employee "Lean Ready".
The Lean Manufacturing Employee Training Manual is offered on Amazon.com to allow management to sample the manual prior to committing to reduced-cost bulk purchases.
Customer Reviews:
Very good book.......2007-10-10
You can't tell a bookby it'd cover........2007-01-18
The Lean Manufacturing Employee Training Manual.......2005-12-06
The Lean Manufacturing Employee Training Manual.......2005-08-31
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First Things Fast: A Handbook for Performance Analysis
Allison Rossett Manufacturer: Pfeiffer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0787944386 |
Book Description
This hands-on book tells you how to quickly determine performance needs before investing precious time and resources. When trainers, consultants, and problem-solvers need to figure out what's wrong with an organization--and they need a solution fast--they need this book. Needs assessment is about doing things right; performance analysis guarantees doing the right thing.Rossett offers extensive guidance on:
You'll get job aids, templates, and implementation examples that direct you through the basics of performance analysis. Carefully selected case studies further illustrate the text.
Visit the First Things Fast online coaching and information system and get information about how to encourage analysis in the organization and what strategies are best for doing it. This online information and coaching tool, designed by award-winning author Allison Rossett, offers planning tips and tools to get things done . . . fast!
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hands-on guide that is immediately useful.......2001-05-11
Guess who's coming to dinner.......2000-11-30
An illuminating, practical guide for performance consulting.......1999-09-30
Great guide to quick human performance analysis.......1998-11-05
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The Ultimate Training Workshop Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide to Leading Successful Workshops and Training Programs
Bruce Klatt Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0070382018 |
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Here is the most comprehensive guide to leading a training session or workshop ever published. This ``soup-to-nuts" reference answers just about every question a trainer/facilitator might have about leading a successful training program, from motivating participants to measuring the results. Based on 25 years of workshop experience, the book features hundreds of professional tips and tricks, plus reproducible materials to use at every step of the training process.Customer Reviews:
The Ultimate Training Workshop.......2007-01-26
A mixed blessing.......2001-04-13
Did anyone edit this book?.......2001-01-06
Did anyone edit this book?.......2001-01-06
A must for people in the workshop business!.......1999-03-05
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The Big Book of Six Sigma Training Games: Proven Ways to Teach Basic DMAIC Principles and Quality Improvement Tools (Big Book)
Chris Chen , and Hadley M. Roth Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0071443851 |
Book Description
An effective and engaging way employees can learn Six Sigma and put its concepts into play
Part of the popular Big Book of Games series, which capitalizes on the proven effective method for workplace training, this first book of training games for Six Sigma ensures that employees will better retain Six Sigma's complex topics.
This invaluable tool offers 50 experiential activities that teach the core improvement approach of Six Sigma, called DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control), as well as many of the popular statistical improvement tools, including Pareto charts and Failure Mode Effects Analysis (FMEA). These games:
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Average.......2007-08-23
Do not buy this book.......2006-06-17
Nice ideas....missing something(s).......2006-06-14
Great book of games.......2005-09-26
Great Book for MBB Instructors.......2005-03-23
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Autonomous Maintenance in Seven Steps: Implementing Tpm on the Shop Floor (Tpm)
Masaji Tajiri , and Fumio Gotoh Manufacturer: Productivity Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 1563272199 |
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Autonomous Maintenance concepts - step by step.......2007-06-27
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Root Cause Analysis Handbook: A Simplified Approach to Identifying, Correcting, and Reporting Workplace Errors
Max Ammerman Manufacturer: Productivity Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0527763268 |
Book Description
An accident has occurred on the floor of your plant. How do you determine what caused it so you can prevent it from happening again? Or what if there has been an error in the production line that has led to the manufacture of defective products? What do you do?The answer is root cause analysis, a process that allows you to find the cause of single events/problems in the workplace. The Root Cause Analysis Handbook presents a walk-through example that illustrates the method and shows how to implement it.
Because poor initial problem definition can (and often does) undermine the problem-solving process, Ammerman places special emphasis on this area to build a solid foundation for effective analysis. He also provides guidance on preparing the final report.
The need for clear documentation on dealing with problems makes this book especially valuable for quality managers, engineers, safety managers, and teams implementing the ISO or QS standards.
Written in a simple, user-friendly style, you will grasp the core concepts quickly and begin applying them to your work.
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Very Good book on Root Cause Analysis.......2007-02-21
Root Cause?? More Like Finding a Scapegoat!!.......2005-03-05
Very good introduction to root cause analysis........2004-01-22
Unique approach to a traditionally reactive technique.......2001-02-13
Prior to reading this book I viewed root cause analysis as a reactive tool to be used to investigate the causes of failures. The approach taken by the author is to also use this technique as a proactive tool in a manner similar to failure mode effects and criticality analysis (FMECA).
Here is a summary of what how this book approaches root cause analysis: it begins with a section on defining problems and collecting data. This approach allows you to take a proactive approach, especially if you are in an environment that uses statistical process controls to measure process performance. This is augmented by a chapters on task analysis and event and casual factor charting. This is where the author's approach begins to resemble FMECA techniques, which are proactive versus reactive methods of addressing problems and risks. This is followed by chapters on interviewing and reporting.
I particularily liked the chapter on interviewing techniques, which added a practical dimension root cause analysis. I also liked the way the author used hints throughout the book to reinforce methods.
The rest of the brief 135-page book is devoted to forms, worksheets and checklists that significantly add to the value or the book. I would have liked an accompanying diskette with this material in electronic format, but the lack of it does not detract from the book in any way.
If you want to use root cause analysis as a proactive tool in conntection with a continuous improvement initiative I recommend that you also consider Understanding Variation by Donald Wheeler. If you are seeking a more proactive approach to preventing problems in the first place you might consider augmenting Root Cause Analysis Handbook with Failure Mode and Effect Analysis by D. H. Stamatis.
Great book about a methodology I use and know works!.......1999-03-20
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Tpm for Every Operator (Shopfloor Series)
Manufacturer: Productivity Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1563270803 |
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Total employee involvement is the foundation of a successful TPM program. TPM for Every Operator introduces frontline workers to the basic methodology of TPM in a succinct, easy-to-read format that covers all aspects of this important manufacturing improvement strategy, including autonomous maintenance, focused improvement, and safety activities. Almost every page is illustrated to provide visual reinforcement for the clear, simple explanations of each TPM element. Every shopfloor worker in your company should read this book; it's the best way to ensure a companywide understanding of TPM.Customer Reviews:
Basic & Simple information for the shopfloor........2007-06-26
TPM Made Simple.......2000-05-24
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Quality Games for Trainers: 101 Playful Lessons in Quality and Continuous Improvement
Marlene Caroselli Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill ProductGroup: Book Binding: Ring-bound Similar Items: ASIN: 0070115028 |
Book Description
100 Fast, enjoyable games bring TQM Concepts to Life! As downright effective as it is entertaining, Quality Games for Trainers, by Marlene Caroselli, packs 100 fast-paced, hands-on activities designed to drive home TQM principles in any organization. Each self-contained game and activity includes a fully scripted mini-lecture, ways to stir up interest and encourage trainee participation, reproductible handouts, and discussion questions. In all, 12 independent sections serve up entertaining options for teaching and reinforcing the essentials of: empowering workers; benchmarking; assuring continuous improvement; enhancing communication; satisfying customers; building teamwork and enriching team meetings; improving work processes; much more.Customer Reviews:
Excellent training material to support TQM.......2006-07-10
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