A Guide to Continuous Improvement Transformation: Concepts, Processes, Implementation

✍ Scribed by Aristide van Aartsengel, Selahattin Kurtoglu (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 211
• Series: Management for Professionals
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book enables enterprise business leaders - from CEOs to supervisors - to understand what "Continuous Improvement" is, why it is probably the best answer to improved business performance in years, and how to put it to work in the unique environment of a specific organization. The book examines what is at the core of "Continuous Improvement" and delves deeper into the elements and constituents necessary to take an organization to the next level to ensure its continued, long-term existence. It provides guidance to enterprise management and to professionals engaged in the implementation of a "Continuous Improvement" initiative and enables them to structure and manage its implementation successfully. It also provides tools to quickly assess where an enterprise business stands in terms of strategic management and "Continuous Improvement".​

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction....Pages 1-6
Defining ‘Continuous Improvement’....Pages 7-30
Understanding Leadership Dimension....Pages 31-37
Culture and Values Dimension....Pages 39-50
Strategic Planning and Management....Pages 51-63
Performance Measurement....Pages 65-76
Performance Management....Pages 77-80
Alignment and Commitment....Pages 81-107
Team Development and Management....Pages 109-149
Process Improvement and Management....Pages 151-176
Sustainability....Pages 177-186
Conclusion....Pages 187-195
Back Matter....Pages 197-204

✦ Subjects

Production/Logistics/Supply Chain Management; Organization/Planning; Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk; Business Strategy/Leadership; Project Management