Out of the Present Crisis: Rediscovering Improvement in the New Economy

by Terence T. Burton

Today, organizations have achieved an overall failure rate above 80 percent with Lean, Six Sigma, Lean Six Sigma, and continuous improvement in general. This is certainly not due to a shortage of books, consultants, and other online resources about the methodologies and tools, or the success stories of Toyota and others. However, it is due to a shortage of knowledge and practice about the most critical success factors of improvement: leadership,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1466504420
• ISBN13: 9781466504424
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Productivity Press
• Length: 301 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"