Sustainable excellence and continuous improvement approaches in SMEs -- Sustainable excellence and continuous improvement approaches in SMEs -- Achieving environmental excellence through Lean and green in SMEs -- Lean six sigma and sustainability: from total quality to total sustainability --...

Chapter 1: Get into the Entrepreneurial Mindset -- Part 1: Five Lessons from Lean Startup Thinking -- Chapter 2: Start with the Customer in Mind -- Chapter 3: Define and Communicate Mission and Vision -- Chapter 4: Synthesize an Integrative Operating Model -- Chapter 5: Identify Metrics that...

Basics Lean Production: Challenges -- Waste -- Stabilization -- Flow, Tact and Pull -- Value Stream -- Perfection -- Standardization -- Continuous Improvement -- Assembly -- Manufacturing -- Production Systems -- Advanced Lean Management: Administration -- Product Design/Development -- Planning...

Chapter 1: Lean Management: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Kaizen, Kaikaku and Innovation Management -- Chapter 3: Kata – Behavioural Transformation towards Lean Management -- Chapter 4: Keiretsu Networks -- Chapter 5: Kyouiku – The Learning Enterprise -- Chapter 6: Policy Deployment and Hoshin...

Part I -- Chapter 1. Container logistics chain and empty container repositioning (ECR) -- Part II -- Chapter 2. Closed-form optimal ECR policy in a single depot with random demand -- Chapter 3. Optimal ECR policy in two-depot stochastic systems: periodic-review -- Chapter 4. Optimal ECR policy...

What is and what is the use of project management? -- What does the lean idea consist of? -- How can projects be managed leanly? -- Can lean project management be standardized throughout an organization?.

Szenarien für „fitte 2030“ -- Zehn Herausforderungen für Zukunftsmanagement -- Acht Optionen für Banken und Finanzdienstleister -- Stärken-Aufbau durch Strategieentwicklung -- Erarbeiten der strategischen Ausgangssituation -- Identifikation der Strategieentwicklungschancen -- Nachhaltige...

This book presents the latest developments in optimization and optimal control models; exact, approximate and hybrid methods; and their applications in lean and green supply chains. It examines supply chain network design and modeling, closed loop supply chains, and lean, green, resilient and...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Lean management as a concept of management in higher education -- Chapter 3: Lean culture in higher education – a model approach -- Chapter 4: Maturity of Lean culture in higher education – research, assessment, and improvement -- Chapter 5: Conclusions