Books about Cost efficiency from Amazon.com

THE COMPLETE LEAN ENTERPRISE: Value Stream Mapping for Administrative and Office Processes Beau Keyte and Drew Locher This new book provides a step-by-step approach to applying lean initiatives to the office environment. This title is a must read for those looking to improve their production support activities by identifying waste, establishing performance metrics, speeding up administrative workflow, and improving office efficiency..
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The Toyota Production System model, or Lean, is not new. It has been successfully used in manufacturing companies for decades and is now making dramatic improvements in healthcare institutions as well. This straightforward guide explains what Lean is, how it works, and how to implement the strategy at your organization. What do the production of cars and the care of patients have in common? In both cases, the goal is to deliver high-quality, error-free results. Lean is a proven strategy for providing safe, hassle-free, and cost-effective care. Learn from success stories from healthcare organizations Real-life examples illustrate how well Lean works. These accounts will help you gain a sense of what s involved in implementing Lean in healthcare. How do you get an organization to adopt Lean as its improvement strategy? How do you bring people on board? How do you put the Lean infrastructure in place? How do you even start? These stories will answer your questions about applying Lean, and perhaps most important, convey the remarkable results you can expect..
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The Lean Office Pocket Guide XL represents the input of a select group of 'pioneers' who have shared their successful administrative Lean experiences with the how-to tools contained in this book. The tools of takt time, value stream mapping, 5S, document tagging, data capture, flow, pull, kanbans, office file system, plus many others are explained in this desktop version of the best seller The Lean Office Pocket Guide..
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Current technologies, when planned and used properly, can improve the academy for students and for those who serve students This can be done by making the academic enterprise more efficient while offering students more opportunities to learn in styles and at paces that are more individualized than has ever been possible. Many of these new ideas incorporate the wise use of information and communication technologies.

Advancing Campus Efficiencies is a pragmatic and practical tool for deans, vice presidents, and presidents of private and public colleges and universities. Drawing on the Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunication s (WCET) more than 15 years of work on the effective use of technology to increase quality and efficiency in higher education, this book provides straightforward advice and nontechnical information to help college and university administrators respond to the calls for greater accountability in higher education and students increasing expectations for the availability of high levels of technology.

Contents include:

• The urgency for efficiency and the use of technology
• Evaluating quality and costs on campus
• Student services
• Faculty roles and intellectual property
• Accountability and assuring quality
• Lessons for consortial agreements
• Taking higher education to the next level

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Lean Production transformed the way that companies think about production and manufacturing This book provides a new challenge It arises from the work of the Lean Aerospace Initiative at MIT and provides a new agenda and bold vision for the aerospace industry to take it out of crisis. It also redefines and develops the concept of Lean as a framework for enterprise transformation and this will be relevant and critical for all industries and enterprises.
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INTEGRATED COST REDUCTION is a vital resource for CEOs, executives and other business practitioners who know that continuous cost reduction is at the center of any successful enterprise. Written in an accessible style with non-technical explanations of what cost is and how to use this innovative process that has been PROVEN at Fortune 100 companies to reduce costs by an average of 10-25%.

An enterprise-wide process, INTEGRATED COST REDUCTION (ICR) has already produced remarkable results in over 300 engagements for products from $25 connectors to $1M aircraft engines.

CEOs and senior executives will learn how to generate the cost reductions required to meet margin objectives, without the public-relations or business continuity risks of outsourcing, e-Auctions or off-shoring. Supply chain professionals will be introduced to a proven process that builds on work already done in most companies, but that is rarely managed by one strategic concept.

Integrating the 5 core tools of ICR; Lean Manufacturing; Design-to-Cost; Six Sigma; Supply Chain Management; and eProcurement, INTEGRATED COST REDUCTION delivers cost reductions that exceed any single approach. With an appendix that includes actual success-studies taken from over 300 INTEGRATED COST REDUCTION implementations, readers get a bird's eye view of both the process and the results made possible by this innovative strategy..
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The Lean Primer will allow you to train the organization to understand how critical the implementation of Lean principles and processes are to your short and long term success. It will provide the various reasons why an organization must go Lean, as well as detailing what Lean is. Lean will be explained in the terms of Stabilize, Flow, and Sustain with reference to the following topics of lean vision, waste, value stream mapping, 5S, takt time, buffer and safety stock, continuous flow, standard work, quick changeover, kanban, visual controls, mistake-proofing, leveling, paced withdrawal, visual production control, runners, TPM, and kaizen. Each of these tools will also be explained with digital photos from world-class shops from across the US that shared their best practices..
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This book leads the reader through the logical links between the economic theory underpinning efficiency measurement and the methods used in its analysis..
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Improve your accounting department with proven techniques and methods that will streamline all of the processes associated with your system. While increasing the quality of your performance, you will be guided by samples of cost/benefit analyses so that you may justify the implementation of your revised systems. Whether you are changing your accounting department out of necessity or just looking to enhance it, this book will transform your current department into a quicker and more reliable unit.

If you’re looking for a way to increase accounting department efficiency and cut costs, start by reading this remarkable new hands-on guide and learn how to:

• Reduce transaction-related work and allow employees to focus on profit-increasing activities
• Eliminate redundancy and waste
• Apply the latest technologies to your accounting process
• Reduce costs to the corporation
• Eliminate errors and increase efficiency

These topics and many more are thoroughly discussed so that you may speed up your accounting processes and cut costs at the same time..
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