Operational Excellence
- 6 Courses | 2h 2m 19s
- 10 Books | 38h 36m
- 11 Audiobooks | 44h 53m 53s
Drive excellence into your operations using lean and other best practice methodologies for continuous improvement. Lean methodologies can help your organization provide improved value for your customers. These methodologies improve the quality of your work processes, reduce errors and costs, and even simplify complex processes. Learn how these practices can improve your bottom line and employee morale.
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Using Lean to Perfect Organizational Processes
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COURSES INCLUDED
Using Lean to Perfect Organizational Processes
Regardless of the industry or sector you're involved in, it's likely that your organization has several competitors offering similar products or services. With so much choice available, consumers are increasingly looking for products or services that offer them the most value, and that can be delivered in the most efficient manner. To meet this demand, organizations must perfect their processes and operations management. This course introduces powerful Lean tools, such as 5S, jidoka, and Hoshin Kanri, for optimizing perfection and quality in a manufacturing or service organization. They'll help you organize workplaces, meet strategic objectives, problem solve, enhance operations, improve processes and efficiency, and reduce waste.
7 videos |
20m
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Using Lean to Improve Flow and Pull
Anyone, at any level, can help make their organization more efficient. The simplest way is to eliminate waste from business processes. There are various Lean techniques that can help any organization build efficiency and quality into its operations. In this course, you'll learn about the visual workplace, identify key components of just-in-time, and explore the steps of the Kanban system. You'll also consider the goals of line balancing, and learn how to calculate takt time. This course also shows how you can improve communication how to improve Operations Managements by establishing a pull system that paces production with the rate of actual product demand, and distributing work evenly.
7 videos |
19m
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Using Lean to Reduce Waste and Streamline Value Flow
Companies are always looking for new ways to improve business efficiency and increase quality. To run a business at optimal capacity, you need to reduce or eliminate waste from processes and improve production flow. In this course, you'll learn about Lean strategies to reduce waste by determining which operations add value and which don't. You'll explore the concept of continuous flow, and discover how to balance work processes to make production flow more efficient. You'll define what waste is, where it exists, and what causes it. You'll also examine aspects of muda, continuous flow, line balancing, and value and non-value-add, and practical Lean techniques for improving Operations Management.
7 videos |
19m
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Applying Value Stream Mapping in Lean Business
To understand how something works, you need to observe it, noting how it fits into a larger pattern. In this course, you'll learn about adding value stream maps to your operations - visual representations of the flows that lead to a product or service being created. Value stream mapping is a Lean technique helps you make your Operations Management more efficient. You'll also learn about creating a future-state value stream map, and eliminating process blocks. The course also covers how recognize how a value stream map improves an organization's efficiency. And it explores ways to identify sources of waste and issues with quality.
8 videos |
23m
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Managing for Operational Excellence
By achieving operational excellence, a company can not only drastically improve the quality and efficiency of its internal processes, but it can also gain a competitive advantage. But to attain operational excellence, you'll need to understand how your organization's existing processes work and create a plan to fundamentally enhance them. In this course, you'll learn about Lean tools you can use to improve operations management in your organization. You'll also explore strategies that can help make your organizational operations more efficient and sustainable over the long term.
6 videos |
20m
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PMI PDU
Enabling Business Process Improvement
Process improvements can transform a business, increasing efficiency, product quality customer satisfaction, and profits. But to carry out these process improvements, you must understand the existing process design, and implement a process control system to maintain the standards of the new process. This course will cover how you can combine 6σ and Lean Six Sigma strategies to manage a business process improvement initiative so it yields the best possible results. You'll explore how to get buy-in from stakeholders, and how to analyze and redesign a process. You'll also learn guidelines for successfully implementing and sustaining process improvements.
6 videos |
19m
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PMI PDU
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BOOK SUMMARY
Lean Six Sigma Approaches in Manufacturing, Services, and ProductionLean Six Sigma Approaches in Manufacturing, Services, and Production outlines the key benefits of Lean and Six Sigma while dispelling common myths, such as the idea that they're only useful in manufacturing. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
10m
By Benedict M. Uzochukwu (eds), Edem G. Tetteh
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The Root Cause Analysis Handbook: A Simplified Approach to Identifying, Correcting, and Reporting Workplace ErrorsIn The Root Cause Analysis Handbook, author Max Ammerman presents a nine-step approach to investigating any workplace failure. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
10m
By Max Ammerman
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The 12 Principles of Manufacturing Excellence: A Lean Leader's Guide to Achieving and Sustaining Excellence, Second EditionOutlining a comprehensive, proven process for delivering world-class performance while also cultivating the right culture through leadership, mentoring, and hourly associate involvement, this book details a top-down strategy and process that Lean leaders can use to implement and sustain manufacturing excellence.
5h 7m
By Larry E. Fast
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Lean and Digitize: An Integrated Approach to Process ImprovementProviding a convincing picture of process improvement, digitization and the management of both, this book will help you eliminate waste, improve process and service, and better align your information and communications technology with your strategic objectives.
4h 20m
By Bernardo Nicoletti
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Performance Consulting: A Strategic Process to Improve, Measure, and Sustain Organizational Results, 3rd EditionFeaturing tools, models, and checklists, as well as case examples throughout, this profoundly practical book provides detailed steps for measuring results from performance consulting initiatives on five different levels, including ROI.
3h 45m
By Dana Gaines Robinson, Dick Handshaw, Jack J. Phillips, James C. Robinson, Patricia Pulliam Phillips
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The Kanban PlaybookIdeal for Lean practitioners and facilitators looking for a training tool and guideline that can be used in the work area while improvements are being made, this book includes color images and a combination of short paragraphs and bulleted points to walk you step-by-step through the process of implementing Kanban to reduce waste and bring about remarkable changes in your organization.
23m
By Chris Ortiz
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The Power of Business Process Improvement, Second Edition: 10 Simple Steps to Increase Effectiveness, Efficiency, and AdaptabilityAuthored by an experienced process analyst, this how-to guide presents a simple, bottom-line approach to process improvement work that will have your business running better in no time.
4h 1m
By Susan Page
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Beyond Lean: A Revised Framework of Leadership and Continuous ImprovementPresenting an important guide to rethinking operations management, this book presents a strong case against the current practice based on numerous studies from the business world as well as insights from the most prestigious authors of the last fifty years.
3h 11m
By Peter Béndek
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Utilizing the 3Ms of Process Improvement: A Step-by-Step Guide to Better Outcomes Leading to Performance ExcellenceComplete with forms, templates, and case studies from the aviation and manufacturing industries, this book offers step-by-step guidance on how to use the 3Ms to achieve performance excellence that lasts.
4h 53m
By Richard Morrow
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Safety Professional's Reference and Study Guide, Third EditionThis new edition serves both as a reference guide for the experienced professional and as a preparation source for those desiring certifications. It's an invaluable resource and a must-have addition to every safety professional's library.
12h 36m
By W. David Yates
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AUDIOBOOKS INCLUDED
AUDIOBOOK SUMMARY
Warehouse Management: A Complete Guide to Improving Efficiency and Minimizing Costs in the Modern Warehouse, 2nd editionWarehouse Management explores the role of warehouses in the supply chain, and takes a comprehensive look at the workings of modern warehouse operations. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
23m 54s
By Gwynne Richards
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Gemba Kaizen: A Commonsense Approach to a Continuous Improvement Strategy, Second EditionGemba Kaizen, Second Edition presents an elegant and simple approach to improving quality within your organization. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
21m 8s
By Masaaki Imai
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Business Operations Models: Becoming a Disruptive CompetitorBusiness Operations Models lays a framework for building an operations system that will guide your company's production of goods and services. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
20m 41s
By Alan Braithwaite, Martin Christopher
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Accelerating Lean Six Sigma Results: A Guide to Improvement Excellence in the New EconomyAccelerating Lean Six Sigma Results provides the ten systematic changes you can introduce to make improvement part of your organization's DNA. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
21m 13s
By Terence Burton
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Logistics, Supply Chain and Operations Management Case Study CollectionLogistics, Supply Chain, and Operations Management Case Study Collection is a compilation of case studies illustrating practical ways to overcome challenges in business today. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
17m 40s
By David B. Grant (ed)
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Going Lean: How the Best Companies Apply Lean Manufacturing Principles to Shatter Uncertainty, Drive Innovation, and Maximize ProfitsThis audio edition shows how, by using lean dynamics, companies everywhere can thrive across a broad range of changing conditions.
7h 22m 51s
By Stephen A. Ruffa
Audiobook
The Cleveland Clinic Way: Lessons in Excellence from One of the World's Leading Health Care OrganizationsThis audio edition gives leaders lessons they can apply to their own organizations to achieve results and empowers average Americans to make more informed healthcare decisions.
6h 47m 11s
By Toby Cosgrove
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Simply Brilliant: How Great Organizations Do Ordinary Things in Extraordinary WaysThis audio edition offers fascinating case studies and powerful lessons that you can apply to do ordinary things in extraordinary ways regardless of your industry or profession.
6h 47m 28s
By William C. Taylor
Audiobook
The Lean CEO: Leading the Way to WorldClass ExcellenceThis audio edition reveals the true power of Lean through in-depth interviews with CEOs who have gone beyond tool adoption and established Lean as a corporate-wide management system.
10h 40m 47s
By Jacob Stoller
Audiobook
The Outstanding Organization: Generate Business Results by Eliminating Chaos and Building the Foundation for Everyday ExcellenceThis audio edition offers a toolbox for combating chaos by creating the organizational conditions that will allow your improvement efforts to return greater gains. Read by the author.
6h 5m
By Karen Martin
Audiobook
Grow Your Business: Scale Your Business For Long-Term SuccessWith Grow Your Business, you'll learn the modern strategies for taking your burgeoning venture up a notch, all while avoiding the common pitfalls of expansion.
5h 26m
By Eric Butow, The Staff of Entrepreneur Media
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SKILL BENCHMARKS INCLUDED
Lean & Continuous Improvement
Lean principles that originated in manufacturing and Agile software development methods are often closely intertwined when applied to new product development and management, and for launching and building new companies in the digital business age. This benchmark evaluates your understanding of this topic. Being aware of potential knowledge gaps allows you to better understand your current competency and areas for improvement, so you can find suitable content and curate your own learning path. The courses recommended at the end of this benchmark can help you fill potential gaps in your knowledge.
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