A guide for the facilitator in S5. In Spanish. This guide, is a comprehensive tool that can serve to expand the Lean Transformation experience for your company including practical tips and successful workshop structures that will culminate in a successful implementation of Lean Manufacturing. Una guía para el facilitador en S5. En español. Esta guía es una herramienta integral que puede servir para expandir la experiencia de transformación ajustada para su empresa, incluyendo consejos prácticos y estructuras de talleres exitosas que culminarán en una implementación exitosa de la fabricación ajustada.

Learn how Lean IT can help companies deliver better customer service and value Lean Enterprise Systems effectively demonstrates how the techniques derived from Lean Manufacturing, combined with the thoughtful application of information technology, can help all enterprises improve business performance and add significant value for their customers. The author also demonstrates how the basic concepts of Lean Manufacturing can be applied to create agile and responsive Lean IT. The book is divided into three parts that collectively explore how people, processes, and technology combine forces to facilitate continuous improvement: * Part One: Building Blocks of the Lean Enterprise sets forth the essentials of Lean. Readers discover where, when, and how Lean IT adds substantial value to the Lean Enterprise through integrated processes of planning, scheduling, execution, control, and decision making across the full spectrum of operations. * Part Two: Building Blocks of Information Systems explores the primary components of an enterprise information system and how these components may be integrated to improve the flow of information supporting value streams. Readers learn how information systems help organize and deliver knowledge when and where it's needed. * Part Three: Managing Change with IT demonstrates how the skillful combination of process and information technology improvements empowers people to continuously improve the Lean Enterprise. Readers develop the skills to exploit emerging information technology tools and change management methods, crafting a Lean IT framework-reducing waste, complexity, and lead time-while adding measurable value. Executives, managers, and improvement teams across a broad range of industries, as well as IT professionals, can apply the techniques described in this publication to improve performance, add value, and create competitive advantage. The book's clear style and practical focus also makes it an excellent textbook for upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses in business, operations management, and business information systems.

The evolution of total quality management has had a great dissemination in the last decades, especially for the adoption of management systems standard. Given that the issues of energy is increasing to a greater extent in the recent years, ISO develops ISO 50001 Energy Management System (EnMS). \n ISO 50001 standard was published on July 2011 and it has grown significantly worldwide ever since. This standard is expected to give a big impact in energy management and it is estimated that the standard could influence up to 60 % of the world’s energy use. ISO 50001 established a framework for energy management systems, not only for industrial plants but also for commercial, institutional, governmental facilities; and entire organizations.\n This book summarizes the results of a study conducted by the University of Girona (UdG) and University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) aimed at analyzing the impact of ISO 50001 standard in Spain. \n\n

We make choices all the time - about trivial matters, about how to spend our money, about how to spend our time, about what to do with our lives. And we are also constantly judging the decisions other people make as rational or irrational. But what kind of criteria are we applying when we say that a choice is rational? What guides our own choices, especially in cases where we don't have complete information about the outcomes? What strategies should be applied in making decisions which affect a lot of people, as in the case of government policy? This book explores what it means to be rational in all these contexts. It introduces ideas from economics, philosophy, and other areas, showing how the theory applies to decisions in everyday life, and to particular situations such as gambling and the allocation of resources. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.