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Continuous Improvement of the Process

        by Donald A. Kerper

 

 

 

        Even though the "continuous improvement" fad may be over for some organizations, many organizations have never in actuality incorporated a sustained improvement strategy.  This book describes what makes for an effective and efficient organization that is constantly improving and reinventing itself.  An overview of many improvement tools is also included in the book.

 

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Table of Contents

Unit                 Content                                                                                  

1          Introduction

2          Cost of Poor Effectiveness and Efficiency

                        Traditional Information vs. Process Information

                        Cost of Quality

                        Problem Solving as a Means To Improve COQ

3          The Customer: The Key To Organizational Effectiveness

                        Organizational Effectiveness

                        Quality: The Customer's Perception

                        The Experience With Products and Services

                        The Customer Interaction Experience

                        Developing Products for the Future

4          The Process: The Key To Efficiency

                        Organizational Efficiency

                        Primary Process

                        The Dollar Circle

                        Sold Throughput

                        Secondary Process

                        The Organization as a Process

                        Waste

                        Continuous Improvement

                        Productivity

5          The Behavior of Continuous Improvement

                        The Nature of People & Management

                        The Objective of Continuous Improvement

                        The Role of All Employees In Continuous Improvement

                        The Elements To Organizational Behavioral Change

                        Deming's Obligations of Management

                        The Fear Hierarchy

6            Managing Continual Improvement of Organizational Performance

                        Process Management Principles

                        Leadership

7          The Mysticism of Teams

                        The Elements of Teams

                        The Task Objective and Process

                        The Group Process

                        Managing Team Performance

8            Management and Variation

                        The Theory of Variation

                        Improving Management Analysis

                        Improving Management Decision Making

                        Improving Individual Performance

9            Organizational Mission Analysis

                        The Organization as a Process

                        Mission and Responsibilities

                        Matching Process Objectives To the Mission

                        Process Definition

10            Process Definition and Redesign

                        Process Definition

                        Process Redesign

11            Problem Solving: A Deductive Approach

                        The Context of Problem Solving

                        The Deductive Problem Solving Process

12        The SPC Problem Solving Process

                        The Context of the SPC Problem Solving Process

                        SPC Problem Solving Steps

                        Other Applications

13            Quality Function Deployment

                        Product Improvement or Development

                        Customer True Needs Analysis

                        Substitute Quality Measures

                        Component Part Characteristics

                        Process Variable Requirements

                        Statistical Process Control

                        Functional and Individual Responsibility Deployment and Analysis

                        Policy Deployment

14            Continuous Improvement: Magic or Management  

 

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