Your LEAN and mean guide to Lean Six SigmaReady to implement better, faster, cheaper, more-profitable processes in your organization? Lean Six Sigma Demystified, Second Edition, shows you how to use proven techniques for simplifying, streamlining, and optimizing business practices for maximum productivity and profitability.Written in a step-by-step format, this practical guide covers the fundamental methods and tools of Lean Six Sigma. You'll get details on reduc...

Simple Steps to Improve Patient Safety, Patient Flow and the Bottom LineA Doody's Core Title for 2021!This thoroughly revised resource shows, step-by-step, how to simplify, streamline, analyze, and optimize healthcare performance using tested Lean Six Sigma and change management techniques. Lean Six Sigma for Hospitals, Second Edition, follows the patient from the front door of the hospital or emergency room all the way th...

Maximize speed, quality, productivity, and profits with QI Macros for ExcelBreakthrough Improvement with QI Macros and Excel: Finding the Invisible Low-Hanging Fruit reveals proven techniques for identifying and analyzing data that will lead to immediate results. This practical guide focuses on using Excel, one of the most widely used software packages, to drive improvement--no need to rely on expensive training in a new methodology.Free video training and a 90-d...

UNTIL PROVEN INNOCENT begins with a night 911 call from a woman gasping her last breaths. When police arrived at the house they found her dead, stabbed, and her husband, infant, and father-in-law all shot point-blank. They would survive.Minutes later, a man also called 911, a gunman had released him from a robbery at the same house. He said he knew of no violence before he left. Yet he was the only one who the gunman hadn't tried to kill. Police instantly suspected...

Jewel in the Wake: the 2020 Guide to the Global Transformation” is about, so here goes. This book intends to detail the global situation in all its intricacies and complexity and present a roadmap or way out for humanity. Basically, we, as a species, are @ a crossroad, a fork in the road. If we choose wisely, we can create a livable, sustainable future for humanity. If we don’t make the necessary changes, we are headed towards a potential disaster of unimaginable consequences, basically, t...

Proven strategies for applying Lean Six Sigma to the healthcare industry and getting practical, sustainable results in as few as five days Lean Six Sigma for Hospitals explains how to use tested LSS methods and tools to achieve the goals of better, faster, and cheaper healthcare. These strategies follow the patient from the front door of the hospital or emergency room all the way through discharge examining key aspects of patient flow and quality and also follow the trail of billing and co...

Jewel in the Wake: the 2020 Guide to the Global Transformation” is about, so here goes. This book intends to detail the global situation in all its intricacies and complexity and present a roadmap or way out for humanity. Basically, we, as a species, are @ a crossroad, a fork in the road. If we choose wisely, we can create a livable, sustainable future for humanity. If we don’t make the necessary changes, we are headed towards a potential disaster of unimaginable consequences, basically, t...

This work addresses one of the most central and timely subjects in Public Administration - how to make sense of critical theory and especially how to assess its implications for everyday practice.

INVESTIGATIVE TRUE CRIME MYSTERY AND DRAMAIn July 1981, the mother of 6-year-old Adam took him shopping at a Sears store near their home in Hollywood, Florida, a suburb between Miami and Fort Lauderdale. Mrs. Walsh said she left Adam to play the video games at the display and returned for him about ten minutes later. He was gone and she couldn't find him.For the next two weeks, nearly the entire Hollywood Police Department, much of the community, and the Wa...

Based on a workshop held at the Santa Fe Institute in June, 1990, this book explores structure in organisms—both physical and dynamical—and presents the current status of the search for natural pathways, principles of organization, and the theory of design for organisms. Topics discussed include dynamical systems analysis; the pathways of evolution; development, physiology, and functional morphology; and the principles of dynamical change in connectivity within the networks of processes.

An easy-to-understand introduction to Judaism's most sacred textThe foundation of Hebrew and Jewish religion, thought, law, and society is the Torah—the parchment scroll containing the text of the Five Books of Moses that is located in every synagogue. This accessible guide explains the Torah in clear language, even to those who were not raised in the Jewish religious tradition. Christians who want to know more about the Jewish roots of Christianity need to underst...

Originally published anonymously, The Federalist Papers first appeared in 1787 as a series of letters to New York newspapers exhorting voters to ratify the proposed Constitution of the United States. Still hotly debated and open to often controversial interpretations, the arguments first presented here by three of America's greatest patriots and political theorists were created during a critical moment in our nation's history, providing readers with a running ideological commentar...