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  • PHYSICIAN LEADER
    HANAH POLOTSKY / LISA WILLIAMS
    Physicians are often asked to lead healthcare teams, departments, divisions, practices, and hospitals. Though many of them are experts in their fields, they are rarely prepared or educated in business management and leadership. Based on the authors’ interviews with many physician and non-physician executives and leaders, medical training contributes little to leadership skills....

    $799.00

  • HEALING AND MEDICINE
    PAUL DIEPPE
    Healing is on many people’s minds today. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and a host of other disruptions and disasters, many of us feel that we need healing – in our personal lives, for the environment and for our planet. But healing is rarely defined and is not an accepted part of medicine in the West. This book examines the relationship between healing and medicine throu...

    $919.00

  • THE BUSINESS OF THE METAVERSE
    The metaverse is the future of business applications and models, and this ground-breaking book points and details a complete and clear picture of how the metaverse can impact the various business segments and how the human element will be maintained within the evolutionary change. This book serves as a guide for those planning to implement and expand the metaverse in their busi...

    $1,279.00

  • THE PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS PLAYBOOK
    H. JAMES HARRINGTON / FRANK VOEHL
    The objective of the ISO 56002 standard is to provide a framework on how to build an innovation ecosystem that can be sustained over time. Similar to the quality management system that ISO established decades ago, this standard provides instructions related to best practices on how to establish an Innovative Management System within an organization. However, it does not provide...

    $1,099.00

  • AGE OF AGENCY
    KERUSHAN GOVENDER
    "When the digital world started, many companies moved slowly and cautiously, not willing to replace their traditional operations. Now most companies have gone digital. We are now moving beyond digital into an AI world. Don't ignore it. This important book will guide you by providing a fresh perspective on the interrelationships between humans and AI." – Philip Kotler Do you fee...

    $739.00

  • WAYS OF GREENING
    STEVIE FAMULARI
    This book focuses on rethinking working and living spaces and understanding how "greening" can make them healthier and their occupants happier. It teaches how to see unique ideas for spaces and some of the materials needed to create the designs. Inspired by a study that states that 8% of a space needs to have plants in order to positively affect the air quality of the space, th...

    $1,179.00

  • SUPPLY CHAINS IN REVERSE LOGISTICS
    ROBERT STANISŁAWSKI / ANDRZEJ SZYMONIK
    Currently, it is obvious that new types of production (Industry 4.0) are accompanying new ways of distribution, which advance logistics, physical distribution science, and even supply chain management. The changing environment for carrying out logistics activities is also important for the development of the supply chain. Care for ecology, the recent pandemic, and the situation...

    $1,279.00

  • LEAN SIX SIGMA
    TERRA VANZANT STERN, PHD
    A hybrid methodology, Lean Six Sigma (LSS) is designed to accommodate global challenges and constraints by capitalizing on Six Sigma and Lean Thinking. LSS incorporates best practices from programs such as the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), Capability Maturity Model, and Total Quality Management. International LSS practitioners must understand the dynamic...

    $1,099.00

  • LEADING TRANSFORMATIONS
    GITTE JAKOBSEN
    The world and its business environments are in a state of constant change. The reality today is that organizations and their leaders are faced with increasingly daunting demands for change and, unless they build organizations that can keep pace with these fast-changing environments, it will be a challenge simply to survive while, at the same time, continuing to thrive and embra...

    $1,099.00

  • THE ART OF COMPASSIONATE BUSINESS
    BRUNO R. CIGNACCO
    There are several well-ingrained assumptions regarding the dynamics of work and business activities, which can be refuted. Some examples of these widespread assumptions in business and work environments are employees being viewed as commodities, competitors perceived as threats, companies’ resources seen as limited, and customers perceived as scarce and difficult. All this lead...

    $1,099.00

  • BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
    KWAME ADOM / ROBERT EBO HINSON / ENOCH OPARE MINTAH / THERESA OBUOBISA-DARKO
    The progress of several businesses was severely challenged through the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic, with several businesses collapsing globally. Apart from the pandemic, the business posture and dynamics of yesteryear has significantly changed, as the way business is conducted today, especially in this era of Industry 4.0 and the proliferation of technology-assisted process...

    $1,439.00

  • GOVERNMENT DEALS ARE FUNDED, NOT SOLD
    GENE MORAN
    As identified by Bloomberg Government, the best-performing federal contractors all lobby Congress. We might guess that intuitively. The common perception of Washington, DC, as an insider's game, persists, and it makes sense that the winners lobby. However, focusing only on best-performing contractors limits the view of what unfolds through congressional lobbying or, more import...

    $699.00

  • STRATEGIC LISTENING
    MATS HEIDE / ANETTE SVINGSTEDT
    Listening is so simple, yet so difficult. Many times, listening is taken for granted. One could therefore say that listening is the forgotten part of communication. Although organizations have more digital and analog communication channels than ever, too little time is spent listening to customers, employees, and other influential groups. It is a shame that listening is not giv...

    $739.00

  • LEARNING FROM THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE TO DRIVE PROFITS TO NEW LEVELS
    BOB SPROULL
    The content of this book is centered around three seemingly diverse themes. The first theme is why it’s so important for companies to learn from the past, the present, and the future. The author covers some of the key learnings from the distant and current past, and how these learnings changed the course for many companies. He discusses new learnings that have been developed in...

    $1,099.00

  • RENOVATING HEALTHCARE IT
    SUSAN SNEDAKER
    Healthcare IT is under tremendous pressure in today’s environment: Budgets are shrinking; staff are in short supply; cloud, mobile, and data are driving expansion and innovation. Consumer expectations are high while agility and speed to market for many HIT organizations is low. The exponential growth of data sources and the need to empower healthcare with data-driven intelligen...

    $1,279.00

  • ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR BUSINESS
    Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the business world at an unprecedented pace. From automating mundane tasks to predicting consumer behaviour, AI is changing the way businesses operate across all sectors. This book is an exploration of AI in business applications, highlighting the diverse range of ways in which AI is being used across different industries. The book b...

    $1,279.00

  • HUMAN-CENTERED LEAN SIX SIGMA
    HUNG LE / GRACE DUFFY
    This book focuses on the human side of organizational culture. The authors approach organizational culture from the perspective of alignment to mission, vision, and values. Using a Lean Six Sigma structure, the sequence of chapters begins with the organization and its structure, then drills through strategic, operational, and tactical levels of process and behavior which establ...

    $999.00

  • MEDICAL-GRADE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
    ILKKA JUUSO / ILPO PÖYHÖNEN
    This book is a practical guide to meeting IEC 62304 software-development requirements within the context of an ISO 13485 quality management system (QMS). The book proves this can be done with a minimum amount of friction, overlap, and back-and-forth between development stages. It essentially shows you how you should shape your medical-software development processes to fit in wi...

    $1,259.00

  • QUALITY FUNCTION DEPLOYMENT AND SYSTEMS SUPPORTABILITY
    JOHN LONGSHORE / ANGELA CHEATHAM / JIM GIBSON
    This book not only presents the overall development of quality function deployment (QFD) and what it has been used for to date but a new product support orientation by which it can be employed. It is product and service “system” focused and presents how blending the processes and elements of supportability and analysis into a QFD-modeled methodology can achieve optimal cost sav...

    $1,459.00

  • THE POWER OF LEADERSHIP INSIGHT
    CASEY J. BEDGOOD
    Leadership is a risky business. In the current world, change is the new normal and only constant. As change grows, so does risk. Thus, leaders must be master change agents and master mitigators of risk. But, how will leaders succeed if they don’t measure and lack insight? Simply put, they won’t. Those that are successful in these arenas will ride the waves of success during the...

    $679.00

  • HOSPITAL QUALITY
    DOUG JOHNSON
    In healthcare, quality management refers to the administration of systems design, policies, and processes that minimize, if not eliminate, harm while optimizing patient care and outcomes. Whether you are a hospital with 1,000 beds or 25, the fact remain that every hospital must navigate and manage the many complexities associated with a quality management system. Why is quality...

    $1,099.00

  • LEADING HEALTH CARE TRANSFORMATION
    MAULIK JOSHI, DR.P.H. / AARON GEORGE, DO
    "Readers should go broad and go deep with this book. Readers who do both will find this book a valuable framework for approaching the complexities of leading health care organizations today…it will provide a framework for approaching the work, and that framework is one likely to lead to business success and personal satisfaction." —From the Foreword by Thomas H. Lee, MD, Chief ...

    $919.00

  • THE LEAN ENGINEERING TRAVEL GUIDE
    CÉCILE ROCHE / LUC DELAMOTTE
    Lean is an essential way of working in a world that is accelerating and becoming more complex. It revalues the human dimension in the company by encouraging individual thinking and initiative and gives meaning to teams that are more and more challenged by competitiveness and innovation. This book is designed as a travel guide. The first part includes all the traditional section...

    $1,119.00

  • DIGITAL PLATFORMS AND TRANSFORMATION OF HEALTHCARE ORGANIZATIONS
    RAJIV KAPUR
    COVID-19 accelerated healthcare’s transition towards digital technology since it helped expand the capacity of healthcare organizations (HCOs) through extended patient access and isolation. In addition to HCOs, this transition was adopted by other participants in the healthcare ecosystem, such as independent digital health platform (DHP) vendors, self-insured employers, drug ch...

    $1,239.00

  • THE FIELD GUIDE TO RAPID PROCESS IMPROVEMENT WORKSHOPS IN HEALTHCARE
    CAMERON STARK / GAVIN HOOKWAY / GILL MCVICAR / HUGO VAN WOERDEN
    This book takes the reader through the process to plan, deliver, and follow-up a weeklong Lean Quality Improvement event, usually termed a ‘Rapid Improvement Event’ or ‘Rapid Process Improvement Workshop (RPIW).’ Drawing on the experience of conducting over 100 of these workshops, the book gives readers the information to plan and run their own event. It describes how RPIWs fit...

    $1,279.00

  • DEVELOPING A SUCCESSFUL SUBSIDIARY STRATEGY
    PAUL LYONS
    Most books on business strategy approach the subject from a corporate perspective, covering topics such as the vision for the business, the marketplace, competition and differentiation. However, the reality is that most managers work in sub-units or subsidiaries of the business and they are not involved in corporate strategy formulation. Their strategic concerns are with the po...

    $979.00

  • THE BIRTH OF GRAPEVINE HEALTH
    LISA K. FITZPATRICK
    The COVID-19 pandemic has taught the world many things, but one of the most crucial is the need to communicate tailored health information through trusted messengers effectively. The Birth of Grapevine Health chronicles the experiences of one physician, Dr. Lisa Fitzpatrick, a CDC-trained medical epidemiologist on a mission to deliver trusted health information to the Black com...

    $679.00

  • PROCESS DOWNTIME REDUCTION
    MICHAEL R. BEAUREGARD
    Among the biggest mistakes manufacturers make is not keeping key equipment and processes running and making saleable product when needed. This situation existed when the author Mike Beauregard began working in manufacturing years ago and it currently remains true in companies ostensibly focusing on Lean. To improve, companies often rely on increasing productivity by making prod...

    $919.00

  • IT'S ALL ANALYTICS, PART III
    SCOTT BURK / GARY MINER
    Professionals are challenged each day by a changing landscape of technology and terminology. In recent history, especially the last 25 years, there has been an explosion of terms and methods born that automate and improve decision-making and operations. One term, called "analytics," is an overarching description of a compilation of methodologies. But artificial intelligence (AI...

    $1,059.00

  • HOSHIN KANRI IN HIGHER EDUCATION
    Strategy, the link between mission and operational plans to improve an institution’s performance, is a critical element to the future success of higher education (HE). Hoshin Kanri (HK), the application of Lean principles and practices to strategy development, deployment, and management, is a systematic and effective approach to support institutional success, particularly when ...

    $1,179.00