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A companion to , which revealed the authors methods for improving business performance. The workbook provides the guidelines, strategies, charts, forms, lists, macros for PC use, overviews, and diagrams needed to implement those methods, which have helped companies like IBM, Boeing, and Corning Glass, realize improvements in productivity. -- Copyright © 1999 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR All rights reserved


Book Description
This long-awaited companion and update to H. James Harrington's best-selling Business Process Improvement is a hands-on implementation guide. It focuses on upgrading information distribution paths to optimize the many processes with which they come in contact. Filled with lists, charts, and appendices, this workbook tells how to document a company's processes, analyze current effectiveness, design new processes, use system enablers, and much more.


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Provides a complete toolset - all the guidelines, strategies, charts, forms, lists, macros for PC use, overviews, and diagrams - to start streamlining your business today.


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NEW! Improve Quality, Productivity, and Competitiveness the Business Process Improvement Way with This Hands-On Workbook In Business Process Improvement, a major best-seller in four languages, world-renowned quality authority H. James Harrington revealed his methods for vastly improving business performance. Businesses that implemented Dr. Harrington's methods--including Boeing, IBM, and Corning Glass--realized enormous improvements in productivity. Now in Business Process Improvement Workbook, Dr. Harrington and his coauthors give all businesses the tools to put his breakthrough approach to work for greater efficiency, strategies, charts, forms, lists, macros for Pc use, overviews, and diagrams you need--to start streamlining your business today. This Workbook shows you precisely how to: Understand and set process improvement goals; Eliminate bureaucracies, duplication, and obsolescence; Evaluate information management; Research cycle time; Analyze functions and tasks in administration; Measure accuracy, thoroughness, and reliability in data processing--rank cost/productivity relationships; Find opportunities for standardization; Evaluate technological enablers; Interview and collect data profitably; And far more. For all business leaders--whether your firm in large or small--this is the premier one-step-at-a-time guide to better business performance and greater customer satisfaction.

ANNOTATION

This long-awaited companion and update to Harrington's bestselling Business Process Improvement is a hands-on implementation guide. Focusing on upgrading information distriubtion paths to optimize the many processes with which they come in contact, this workbook tells how to document a company's processes, analyze current effectiveness, and more. 304 pp. Illustrations. 6,500 print.

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NEW! Improve Quality,Productivity,and Competitiveness the Business Process Improvement Way with This Hands-On Workbook In Business Process Improvement,a major best-seller in four languages,world-renowned quality authority H. James Harrington revealed his methods for vastly improving business performance. Businesses that implemented Dr. Harrington's methods—including Boeing,IBM,and Corning Glass—realized enormous improvements in productivity. Now in Business Process Improvement Workbook,Dr. Harrington and his coauthors give all businesses the tools to put his breakthrough approach to work for greater efficiency,strategies,charts,forms,lists,macros for Pc use,overviews,and diagrams you need—to start streamlining your business today. This Workbook shows you precisely how to: Understand and set process improvement goals; Eliminate bureaucracies,duplication,and obsolescence; Evaluate information management; Research cycle time; Analyze functions and tasks in administration; Measure accuracy,thoroughness,and reliability in data processing—rank cost/productivity relationships; Find opportunities for standardization; Evaluate technological enablers; Interview and collect data profitably; And far more. For all business leaders—whether your firm in large or small—this is the premier one-step-at-a-time guide to better business performance and greater customer satisfaction.

SYNOPSIS

NEW! Improve Quality, Productivity, and Competitiveness the Business Process Improvement Way with This Hands-On Workbook In Business Process Improvement, a major best-seller in four languages, world-renowned quality authority H. James Harrington revealed his methods for vastly improving business performance. Businesses that implemented Dr. Harrington's methods—including Boeing, IBM, and Corning Glass—realized enormous improvements in productivity. Now in Business Process Improvement Workbook, Dr. Harrington and his coauthors give all businesses the tools to put his breakthrough approach to work for greater efficiency, strategies, charts, forms, lists, macros for Pc use, overviews, and diagrams you need—to start streamlining your business today. This Workbook shows you precisely how to: Understand and set process improvement goals; Eliminate bureaucracies, duplication, and obsolescence; Evaluate information management; Research cycle time; Analyze functions and tasks in administration; Measure accuracy, thoroughness, and reliability in data processing—rank cost/productivity relationships; Find opportunities for standardization; Evaluate technological enablers; Interview and collect data profitably; And far more. For all business leaders—whether your firm in large or small—this is the premier one-step-at-a-time guide to better business performance and greater customer satisfaction.

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