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Kaiser Permanente: Innovating to Transform Healthcare
by Lynda M. ApplegateThis case enables discussion of organizational and industry transformation.
Kaiser Permanente Colorado: Primary Care Plus
by Robert S. Kaplan Mahek A. ShahA gerontologist in Kaiser Permanente's Colorado region is concerned with the high and growing cost of treating the elderly population. She introduces a new care model, Primary Care Plus, using an interdisciplinary team of a primary care doctor, palliative care specialist, nurse coordinator, clinical pharmacy specialist, and behavioral and social service specialists. The team focuses on the highest-risk patients to see if the new, pro-active care model can improve patient, family, and provider satisfaction and lower Kaiser Permanente's total cost of care for this patient segment.
Kaiser Steel, Fontana
by John Charles Anicic Jr.In the first half of the 20th century, Fontana Farms Company operated a hog ranch on the site where Kaiser Company Incorporated later erected one of the nation's largest steel mills. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, the United States was forced into an unprecedented escalation in the production of ships, planes, and armaments. Soon the sensational announcement came to San Bernardino County that Fontana, a railroad convergence located a safe distance from possible coastal bombardment, would become home to thousands of sweathogs in the war effort. A "gold rush" of sorts ensued, and all property south of Valencia Street to the railroad was sold in a week. This book pays tribute to the fact that, for two generations, Kaiser Steel Corporation at Fontana was among California's and the nation's industrial giants.
Kaizen: The Japanese Secret To Lasting Change--small Steps To Big Goals
by Sarah HarveyReach your goals with Kaizen—the Japanese art of gentle self-improvement From Hygge to Ikigai, positive philosophies have taken the world by storm. Now, Kaizen—meaning “good change”—will help you transform your habits, without being too hard on yourself along the way. With Kaizen, even the boldest intention becomes a series of small, achievable steps. Each person’s approach will be different, which is why it’s so effective. First popularized by Toyota, Kaizen is already proven in the worlds of business and sports. Here, Sarah Harvey shows how to apply it to your health, relationships, money, career, hobbies, and home—and how to tailor it to your personality. Kaizen is the key to lasting change!
A Kaizen Approach to Food Safety: Quality Management in the Value Chain from Wheat to Bread (Contributions to Management Science)
by Victoria HillThis book provides a Management Science approach to quality management in food production. Aspects of food quality, product conformance and reliability/food safety are examined, starting with wheat and ending with its value chain transformation into bread. Protein qualities that influence glycemic index levels in bread are used to compare the value chains of France and the US. With Kaizen models the book shows how changes in these characteristics are the result of management decisions made by the wheat growers in response to government policy and industry strategy. Lately, it provides step-by-step instructions on how to apply kaizen methodology and Deming's work on quality improvement to make the HACCPs (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points) in food safety systems more robust.
Kaizen Assembly: Designing, Constructing, and Managing a Lean Assembly Line
by Chris A. OrtizIt is easy to learn the philosophy and the concepts of kaizen. It is quite another challenge to translate the philosophy into action. While most books expound on the underlying principles and theory, Kaizen Assembly: Designing, Constructing, and Managing a Lean Assembly Line takes you step-by-step through an actual kaizen event. This approach demon
The Kaizen Event Planner: Achieving Rapid Improvement in Office, Service, and Technical Environments
by Karen Martin Mike OsterlingKaizen Events are an effective way to train organizations to break unproductive habits and adopt a continuous improvement philosophy while, at the same time, achieve breakthrough performance-level results. Through Kaizen Events, cross-functional teams learn how to make improvements in a methodological way. They learn how to quickly study a process,
Kaizen for Quick Changeover: Going Beyond SMED
by Keisuke Arai Kenichi SekineChangeovers in 3 minutes or less! Picking up where Dr. Shingo's Single Minute Exchange of Die left off, this book streamlines the process even further to reduce changeover time, while simultaneously cutting staffing requirements in half. To instruct on how to achieve quick changeover in virtually any type of production environment, the book includes— A succinct eight-step process for setup improvementNine basic principles for eliminating changeover wasteThe book begins by outlining the tactical principles for improving the three phases of the changeover procedure. Next it demonstrates how to improve changeover on a processing line. All of the ideas presented are based on kaizen improvements, which require very little, if any, expenditure. Process razing and the implementation of one-piece flow are also examined as means to eliminate wasteful transportation and searching.
Kaizen, Lean Management und Digitalisierung: Mit den japanischen Konzepten Wettbewerbsvorteile für das Unternehmen erzielen
by Marc HelmoldDieses Buch beschreibt, wie Unternehmen durch kontinuierliche Verbesserungen (Kaizen) und Lean Management einen nachhaltigen Wettbewerbsvorteil erzielen können. Prozesse und Aktivitäten werden auf Kundenzufriedenheit fokussiert, sodass nur noch kundenrelevante und wertschöpfende Tätigkeiten durchgeführt werden. Ferner veranschaulichen Fallstudien am Ende jedes Kapitel, wie eine Transformation zu einer schlanken Organisation gelingen kann. Neben Grundbegriffen und Definition werden die japanischen Begriffe des schlanken Managements und Kaizen fundiert erklärt und praxisbezogen beschrieben. Außerdem werden alle Bereiche der Wertschöpfungskette hinsichtlich schlanker Methoden dargestellt.
Kaizen Planning, Implementing and Controlling
by Jorge Luis García-Alcaraz Midiala Oropesa-Vento Aidé Aracely Maldonado-MacíasThis book reports a literature review on kaizen, its industrial applications, critical success factors, benefits gained, journals that publish about it, main authors (research groups) and universities. Kaizen is treated in this book in three stages: planning, implementation and control. The authors provide a questionnaire designed with activities in every stage, highlighting the benefits gained in each stage. The study has been applied to more than 400 managers and leaders in continuous improvement in Mexican maquiladoras. A univariate analysis is provided to the activities in every stage. Moreover, structural equation models associating those activities with the benefits gained are presented for a statistical validation. Such a relationship between activities and benefits helps managers to identify the most important factor affecting their benefits and financial income.
Kaizen Teian 2: Guiding Continuous Improvement Through Employee Suggestions
by Productivity Press Development TeamMore than a guide to establishing a proposal system, this volume presents methods for teaching know-how. It gives each reader the principles for thinking creatively about improving his or her own work.This highly practical book is filled with easily understood explanations and examples of how to teach your employees to pursue excellence through kaizen teian.Before you can institute a successful kaizen teian program, you must have a firm understanding of its underlying principles and rules. This book concentrates on making those principles clear and focuses on the importance of consistently implementing proposals. Actual examples of implemented proposals from five leading Japanese companies illustrate the principles described, and numerous figures and case studies add clarity throughout. If you are ready to tap into the full potential of your work force, this book will help you to train them to seek out new and ever better ways to do their work.
Kaizen Workshops for Lean Healthcare (Lean Tools for Healthcare Series)
by Thomas L. JacksonPart of the Lean Tools for Healthcare series, this user-friendly book will help to improve your understanding of kaizen. It describes exactly what a kaizen event is and details all the phases necessary for implementing continuous improvement practices in your healthcare organization.Kaizen Workshops for Lean Healthcare walks you through the steps of conducting an effective kaizen workshop one that is well planned, well implemented, and well monitored. The information is presented in an easy-to-assimilate format. Numerous illustrations reinforce the text and margin assists call your attention to key terms, healthcare examples, and how-to steps. Throughout the book, you will be asked to reflect on questions that will help you apply the concepts and techniques in your own workplace. Defining the key concepts and elements of the production of healthcare services, the text delineates the differences between healthcare processes and the individual cycles of work that those processes link together. It also:Provides foundational information on kaizen and kaizen workshops defining the key roles for successExplains exactly how to plan and prepare Presents examples of how to present workshop results and how to follow upIncludes a concise summary of kaizen workshop stepsSupplies a list of additional resources for learning more about the different kinds of improvement methodologies you might want to implement in your kaizen workshopsIf your healthcare organization fully applies the steps detailed in this book, it will gain much more than the knowledge of how to conduct a workshop. Through kaizen, you will empower your employees to make positive change a reality. And incrementally, kaizen workshops will
Kalecki's Economics Today (Routledge Frontiers Of Political Economy Ser. #Vol. 52)
by Zdzislaw L. Sadowski Adam SzeworskiMichael Kalecki was a Polish economist who independently discovered many of the key concepts of what is now identified as Keynesian theory. His contribution to macroeconomics was late in being acknowledged, but his work can be seen to have resounding influence on some of today's economic problems. The analyses presented in this book serve to scruti
Kalecki's Principle of Increasing Risk and Keynesian Economics (Routledge Studies In The History Of Economics Ser.)
by Tracy MottKalecki was one of an important generation of Cambridge economists. Here, Tracy Mott's impressive book examines the relationship of Kalecki's economics to different economic areas and its relationship to major alternative schools, such as Keynes and Marx. Mott looks at Kalecki's 'principle of increasing risk' and how it gives the way in which the reproduction and expansion of wealth can bring a coherent unity to economic analysis. In so doing, it makes sense out of the fundamental conclusions of Keynesian economics on the underemployment of labour and capital.
Kalkulation im Einkauf: Potenziale erkennen, bewerten und professionell realisieren (essentials)
by Elmar Bräkling Jörg Lux Klaus Oidtmann Frank Weinert Tobias UdingProfessionelle Vergaben leben von einem klaren Blick auf die Kosten. Dieses essential zeigt, wie Vergaben erfolgreich gestaltet und optimal gesteuert werden können. Nur wer Kostenstrukturen versteht, Einsparpotenziale erkennt und diese gezielt in der Verhandlung adressieren kann, wird auch strategisch optimale Einkaufsergebnisse durchsetzen können. Vor der Verhandlung ist dafür eine realistische und gleichzeitig herausfordernde Zielpreisermittlung erforderlich. Was dürfen Güter und Dienstleistungen wirklich kosten und was sind ihre wesentlichen Kostentreiber? Vorgestellt werden die Methoden der Open-Book-Kalkulation und des Target-Costing. Datenbanken helfen dabei, mit diesen Methoden Zielpreise exakt zu ermitteln und Kostensenkungspotenziale bewerten zu können.
Kalkulation von Baupreisen und Vergabe von Bauleistungen: Ausschreibung, Angebotsbearbeitung, Vergabe und Abrechnung (erfolgreich studieren)
by Peter VogtIm Fokus dieses Lehrbuchs steht zunächst die Pflicht des Bauherrn, Bauleistungen so umfangreich wie nötig zu beschreiben. Diese wichtige Vorarbeit versetzt potenzielle Bieter in die Lage, angemessene Baupreise zu kalkulieren. Damit kommt der Bauherr seinem Ziel, möglichst viele Angebote zu erhalten, ein Stück näher. Das Buch vermittelt anhand von acht Kapiteln, wie die Prozesskette von der Ausschreibung über die Kalkulation bis zur Vertragsgestaltung typischerweise abläuft und welche Verantwortlichkeiten und Risiken sich daraus für die beteiligten Partner ergeben können. Insbesondere der für öffentliche Aufträge streng formale und nach VOB/A geregelte Ablauf wird um praxisnahe Fallbeispiele ergänzt. Zahlreiche Aufgaben mit Lösungen runden das Werk ab. Der Aufbau dieses kompakten Lehrbuchs orientiert sich an der besonderen Didaktik der Reihe "erfolgreich studieren".
Kalman-Filter: Einführung in die Zustandsschätzung und ihre Anwendung für eingebettete Systeme
by Reiner Marchthaler Sebastian DinglerDieses Lehrbuch befasst sich leicht verständlich mit der Theorie der Kalman-Filterung. Die Autoren geben damit eine Einführung in Kalman-Filter und deren Anwendung für eingebettete Systeme. Zusätzlich wird anhand konkreter Praxisbeispiele der Kalman-Filterentwurf demonstriert – Teilschritte werden im Buch ausführlich erläutert.Kalman-Filter sind die erste Wahl, um Störsignale auf den Sensorsignalen zu eliminieren. Dies ist von besonderer Bedeutung, da viele technische Systeme ihre prozessrelevanten Informationen über Sensoren gewinnen. Jeder Messwert eines Sensors weißt jedoch aufgrund verschiedener Ursachen einen Messfehler auf. Würde ein System nur auf Basis dieser ungenauen Sensorinformationen arbeiten, so wären viele Anwendungen, wie zum Beispiel ein Navigationssystem oder autonome arbeitende Systeme, nicht möglich.Das Buch ist geeignet für interessierte Bachelor- und Master-Studierende der Fachrichtungen Informatik, Maschinenbau, Elektrotechnik undMechatronik. Ebenso ist das Buch eine Hilfe für Ingenieure und Wissenschaftler, die ein Kalman-Filter z. B. für die Datenfusion oder die Schätzung unbekannter Größen in Echtzeitanwendungen einsetzen möchten.
Kalman Filtering Under Information Theoretic Criteria
by Badong Chen Lujuan Dang Nanning Zheng Jose C. PrincipeThis book provides several efficient Kalman filters (linear or nonlinear) under information theoretic criteria. They achieve excellent performance in complicated non-Gaussian noises with low computation complexity and have great practical application potential. The book combines all these perspectives and results in a single resource for students and practitioners in relevant application fields. Each chapter starts with a brief review of fundamentals, presents the material focused on the most important properties and evaluates comparatively the models discussing free parameters and their effect on the results. Proofs are provided at the end of each chapter. The book is geared to senior undergraduates with a basic understanding of linear algebra, signal processing and statistics, as well as graduate students or practitioners with experience in Kalman filtering.
El Kamasutra de la innovación: Guía disrupta para transformar vidas y negocios
by Jorge Cuevas¡Atrévete a practicar las cuatro posiciones mentales para cambiar el mundo! Haz uso de tu pensamiento creativo y descubre soluciones para tu vida personal y tus negocios, a través de cuatro posiciones mentales. De Jorge Cuevas, autor de los bestsellers El Buscalocos y Liderazgo quántico, así como de la app digital Tu coach para innovar, que guía a personas y equipos a salirse de la caja. En el Kamasutra de la sexualidad se requiere una flexibilidad física fuera de serie, pero yo no alcanzo a hacer ni la mitad de las posiciones. Lo bueno es que en El Kamasutra de la innovación no necesitarás una gran flexibilidad física, sino mental, porque llegarás a soluciones que nunca antes te habías imaginado. Cuando compré por primera vez un volumen del Kamasutra de la sexualidad, no leía tres páginas cuando ya estaba ansioso por encontrar a alguien con quien practicar, y eso mismo me gustaría que te sucediera: que siempre estés con ganas de cerrar este libro para aplicar lo aprendido en las situaciones de tu vida personal y de negocios donde pretendas transformar la realidad. Divertido, irreverente y práctico al mismo tiempo, Jorge Cuevas, el Buscalocos, nos ayuda a aumentar nuestra inteligencia innovadora a través de cuatro posiciones mentales. Un libro sorprendentemente útil en la era más rápida de la historia de la humanidad, donde el pensamiento divergente y creativo se ha convertido en el principal diferenciador. www.inteligenciainnovadora.com
Kamasutra innovation: Disrupted guide to transform lives and businesses
by Jorge Cuevas¡Atrévete a practicar las cuatro posiciones mentales para cambiar el mundo! Haz uso de tu pensamiento creativo y descubre soluciones para tu vida personal y tus negocios, a través de cuatro posiciones mentales. De Jorge Cuevas, autor de los bestsellers El Buscalocos y Liderazgo quántico, así como de la app digital Tu coach para innovar, que guía a personas y equipos a salirse de la caja. En el Kamasutra de la sexualidad se requiere una flexibilidad física fuera de serie, pero yo no alcanzo a hacer ni la mitad de las posiciones. Lo bueno es que en El Kamasutra de la innovación no necesitarás una gran flexibilidad física, sino mental, porque llegarás a soluciones que nunca antes te habías imaginado. Cuando compré por primera vez un volumen del Kamasutra de la sexualidad, no leía tres páginas cuando ya estaba ansioso por encontrar a alguien con quien practicar, y eso mismo me gustaría que te sucediera: que siempre estés con ganas de cerrar este libro para aplicar lo aprendido en las situaciones de tu vida personal y de negocios donde pretendas transformar la realidad. Divertido, irreverente y práctico al mismo tiempo, Jorge Cuevas, el Buscalocos, nos ayuda a aumentar nuestra inteligencia innovadora a través de cuatro posiciones mentales. Un libro sorprendentemente útil en la era más rápida de la historia de la humanidad, donde el pensamiento divergente y creativo se ha convertido en el principal diferenciador. www.inteligenciainnovadora.com
Kameda Seika: Cracking the US Market
by Nobuo Sato Elie Ofek Akiko KannoIn spring 2016, Kameda's CEO, Michiyasu Tanaka, is facing difficult questions from board members over the lackluster performance of the company's US subsidiary. Kameda was the leading player in the Japanese rice cracker market and was looking to expand overseas to achieve growth, with the vision of becoming a global food company. Starting in 2008, it had tried to market its best-selling product in Japan, Kakinotane, as well as other types of rice-based snacks to US consumers. Despite years of offering samples to consumers, modifications to the naming and packaging design, the addition of new flavors, changes in the supermarkets it placed its product, and offering retailers slotting fees - sales were well below expectations and losses were mounting. The situation was especially baffling as the company believed that the gluten-free trend as well as a growing desire for healthier food should have bode well for its rice-based snacks; moreover several Japanese food makers had recently achieved success in the US (such as Calbee with snapeas and Ito En with teas). On the bright side, Kameda's recent acquisition of a US company, Mary's Gone Crackers, was showing steady sales growth; though profits were very low due to high manufacturing and raw ingredient costs, and distribution coverage was limited. Tanaka and his management team had only a few years to turn things around or consider closing the Kameda USA subsidiary. Every marketing element was on the table: from changing the packaging to rethinking the retail approach to accepting private label deals to investing in more efficient plants to partnering with a well-known US brand in the snack food space. Could Tanaka save Kameda USA and dramatically improve the profits of Mary's Gone Crackers?
Kamikazes: Los mejores peores años de la Argentina
by Reynaldo SietecaseEl análisis de un tiempo cargado de virulencia y contradicciones, de logros y retrocesos. Una mirada inteligente sobre los años más vibrantes y controvertidos de la historia argentina. Un libro que van a valorar tanto los oficialistas lúcidos como los opositores honestos. Argentina 2003-2013, la década de los Kirchner: la pelea con los medios de comunicación, la relación con los sindicatos, los problemas con el transporte y la energía, el karma de los vicepresidentes, la relación con la oposición, La Cámpora, la recuperación de YPF y el aval a las empresas mineras, la lucha con las entidades del campo, el modelo económico, los juicios a represores, la inseguridad y la estrategia de la confrontación permanente. Ensayo periodístico, libro de historia, crónica de una década, el libro de Sietecase es más que cualquiera de esas clasificaciones.
Kamishibai Boards: A Lean Visual Management System That Supports Layered Audits
by Joseph NiederstadtPart of the Toyota Production System, Kamishibai boards are simple and flexible visual controls for performing audits within a manufacturing process. When used properly, they are powerful tools for performing, managing, and auditing tasks of specific duties.Kamishibai Boards: A Lean Visual Management System That Supports Layered Audits explains how to use this visual management system to identify normal conditions versus abnormal conditions in your organization. Filled with easy-to-follow instructions that require minimal training, it outlines a layered audit system for sustaining continuous improvement that can be applied to any organization in any industry.The book includes downloadable resources with master forms you can use to create your own daily, weekly, or monthly Kamishibai cards for any subject. The downloadable resources also include electronic copies of all examples in the book.Helping you focus on resolving abnormal situations, the book supplies the understanding required to make problems, abnormalities, and variations from the standard visible so corrective actions can be made right away—so you can spend more of your valuable time on achieving sustainable improvement.
Kanakku Pathiviyal (Accountancy) 11th Standard - Tamilnadu Board
by State Council of Educational Research TrainingKanakku Pathiviyal (Accountancy) Textbook for the 11th Standard Students, preparing for Tamil Nadu State Board Exam.