Isbn: 9798174622159 - the improvement compass: a framework for better decisions and improvement (4 risultati)

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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - What does improvement actually mean Organizations pursue growth, quality, speed, lower costs, safety, customer satisfaction, and employee engagement-often at the same time. Yet changes intended to improve one area routinely create problems somewhere else. Costs are reduced and quality declines. Controls are added and responsiveness suffers. Technology is implemented and frustration increases.The Improvement Compass provides a practical framework for seeing the whole decision.The book introduces MBFC + SH: More - Better - Faster - Cheaper + Safer - Happier, six fundamental directions of value creation. Opposing them are six forms of organizational friction: Waste - Defects - Delays - Excess Cost - Risk - Frustration. Together, they create a common language for evaluating whether a decision produces genuine improvement-or simply moves problems somewhere else.Through real-world examples, practical frameworks, and lessons drawn from business, manufacturing, technology, quality, safety, and organizational decision-making, The Improvement Compass explores why capable people make poor decisions, how friction becomes accepted as normal, why well-intentioned improvements create unintended consequences, and how leaders can evaluate tradeoffs more effectively.The framework does not replace Lean, Six Sigma, Theory of Constraints, project management, strategic planning, or other specialized methodologies. Instead, it provides a common language for understanding and evaluating what those methods are ultimately intended to accomplish.The book moves from philosophy to application with the MBFC + SH Decision Test, Audit, Scorecard, meeting framework, policy and control evaluation, capital-investment evaluation, case studies, and Improvement Compass Toolkit-practical tools for turning better thinking into better decisions.The objective is not to eliminate every tradeoff or make every dimension better at once. The objective is to understand whether the organization is moving in a better overall direction-creating more value while reducing the friction that consumes time, money, energy, and opportunity.Every decision moves an organization somewhere. The question is whether it creates net improvement.The Improvement Compass is Book One of the MBFC + SH Series: More - Better - Faster - Cheaper + Safer - Happier. …

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