
High Performance Operations
Leverage Compliance to Lower Costs, Increase Profits, and Gain Competitive Advantage
Hillel Glazer(Author)
Financial TImes Prentice Hall (Publisher)
Published on 17. November 2011
Book
Hardback
272 pages
978-0-13-277988-3 (ISBN)
Description
Companies in highly regulated industries face unique challenges in optimizing business performance and profitability while maintaining strong governance and regulatory adherence. In this start-to-finish guidebook, leading business performance consultant Hillel Glazer shows how to achieve these goals through the successful integration of lean and systems thinking. Written for operations managers, process professionals, and lean systems managers, Glazer shows how to systematically incorporate compliance into planning for overall performance, value, and profitability, rather than viewing compliance as an end in itself. High Performance Operations will help operations professionals and managers:
Clarify the competing interests that challenge them, and implement pre-conditions for success.
Learn how a systems-thinking approach can promote achieve operational excellence.
Uncover the "secret sauce" that enables great organizations to scale their successes, eliminate single points of failure, and get more of "what went right".
Define what value and operational excellence look like in their organizations, and all the costs of achieving them.
Create solutions, establish proof-of-performance, justify investments, measure performance, and implement continuous improvement.
Translate solutions into working policies, patterns, processes, and procedures.
Clarify the competing interests that challenge them, and implement pre-conditions for success.
Learn how a systems-thinking approach can promote achieve operational excellence.
Uncover the "secret sauce" that enables great organizations to scale their successes, eliminate single points of failure, and get more of "what went right".
Define what value and operational excellence look like in their organizations, and all the costs of achieving them.
Create solutions, establish proof-of-performance, justify investments, measure performance, and implement continuous improvement.
Translate solutions into working policies, patterns, processes, and procedures.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Upper Saddle River
United States
Publishing group
Pearson Education (US)
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 162 mm
Width: 236 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
490 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-13-277988-3 (9780132779883)
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Person
Hillel Glazer is Founder, Principal, and CEO of Entinex, a consulting firm that focuses on helping companies achieve world-class levels of operational excellence. Also an SEI Visiting Scientist at Carnegie Mellon University, he is one of the few CMMI High Maturity Lead Appraisers and CMMI Instructors working with agile teams to successfully harmonize lean-thinking and systems-thinking within highly-regulated companies. His contributions have appeared in many publications, including the recent Addison-Wesley books, CMMI for Services, Second Edition; CMMI for Development, Third Edition; and Integrating CMMI and Agile Development.
Content
Acknowledgments xv
About the Author xx
Chapter 1 Flying a Business 1
Chapter 2 The Approach: An Overview 9
Chapter 3 The Bureaucracy of Compliance 21
Chapter 4 High Performance of Excellence 33
Chapter 5 Regulation and Compliance 45
Chapter 6 The Man Versus The Money 57
Chapter 7 Focusing on the Wrong Target 69
Chapter 8 Secret Sauce 81
Chapter 9 Value, Customer Satisfaction, Profit 95
Chapter 10 The Solution: Defining and Sustaining Value 109
Chapter 11 Operational Excellence 123
Chapter 12 Services 135
Chapter 13 The Price 147
Chapter 14 Systems Thinking and Process Engineering 161
Chapter 15 Operational Excellence, Take 2 177
Chapter 16 Sanity Checks and Fringe Concepts 191
Chapter 17 Finishing Touches 203
Chapter 18 Back to the Future: A Retrospective 217
Index 237
About the Author xx
Chapter 1 Flying a Business 1
Chapter 2 The Approach: An Overview 9
Chapter 3 The Bureaucracy of Compliance 21
Chapter 4 High Performance of Excellence 33
Chapter 5 Regulation and Compliance 45
Chapter 6 The Man Versus The Money 57
Chapter 7 Focusing on the Wrong Target 69
Chapter 8 Secret Sauce 81
Chapter 9 Value, Customer Satisfaction, Profit 95
Chapter 10 The Solution: Defining and Sustaining Value 109
Chapter 11 Operational Excellence 123
Chapter 12 Services 135
Chapter 13 The Price 147
Chapter 14 Systems Thinking and Process Engineering 161
Chapter 15 Operational Excellence, Take 2 177
Chapter 16 Sanity Checks and Fringe Concepts 191
Chapter 17 Finishing Touches 203
Chapter 18 Back to the Future: A Retrospective 217
Index 237