High Reliability Management: Operating on the Edge

by Emery Roe, Paul Schulman, Paul R. Schulman

Book Overview

"Reliability" has become a watchword in the business community. Increasingly, it refers to anticipation and resilience organizations' ability to plan for, absorb, and rebound from shocks. Across many sectors and cases, the approach to improving reliability in primary technical systems has been remarkably similar. Stakeholders assume that improved reliability lies in better design and technology.

This book speaks to the severe limits of formal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804759464
• ISBN13: 9780804759465
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: Stanford Business Books
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"