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  title info:
    title: Operational excellence
    sub title: journey to creating sustainable value
  name:
    name part: Mitchell, John S.
    name part: 1937-
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: ebrary, Inc
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nju
    date issued: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  table of contents: Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgement 31 Preface: Journey to Operational Excellence 32 Evolution of Operational Excellence 32 Growing awareness of Operational Excellence 36 Introduction 39 Chapter 1 Operational Excellence -- The Imperative 46 Definition of Operational Excellence 46 Operational Excellence embraces everyone in an enterprise 49 Operational Excellence improves efficiency 50 Efficiency and Effectiveness 51 A familiar program 52 Description 53 The journey 55 Reliability 56 Risk 57 Changes in the business/mission environment 57 Conventional operations management 58 Maintenance within an operating enterprise 60 Managing improvement initiatives 61 The solution 64 Effectiveness and value throughout the enterprise 68 The Operational Excellence initiative 69 Success
  table of contents: Greater than the sum of the parts 72 Application 73 What You Should Take Away 74 Chapter 2 Application of Operational Excellence 76 Process characteristics 76 Operating / Market environment 79 Enterprise strategy 80 Changes in the operating environment 84 Value 85 Journey into the future 87 What you should take away 90 Chapter 3 Foundation Principles 92 Operational Excellence -- a program equivalent to safety 92 Scope of Operational Excellence 94 Financial Considerations 96 Driven by Business/Mission Results 98 Foundation Principles 100 Eight elements of the Operational Excellence program 102 Implementing the Operational Excellence program 108 Benefits of Operational Excellence 109 What You Should Take Away 111 Chapter 4 The Operational Excellence Program -- Overview 113 Initiation 113 The value principle 115 Use of proven practices,
  table of contents: Strategy 193 Executive Champion 193 Steering team 199 Leadership succession 205 Program Leader/Champion 206 Program Leadership Team 209 What you should take away 210 Chapter 8 Safety and Human Performance Excellence 212 Safety Performance Excellence 212 Human Performance Excellence 217 What you should take away 220 Chapter 9 Define the Program and Program Objectives 222 Executive leadership 223 Operating organization 224 Program plan 227 Formulate program operating plan 238 Appoint working level leaders -- champions 243 Add/optimize supporting processes 247 Roll out Operational Excellence program 250 Maintain motivation and enthusiasm 251 What you should take away 252 Chapter 10 Optimize the Organization 253 Organizational requirements for successful Operational Excellence 254 Initiating organizational improvement 263 Skills management and training 268 Personnel reductions 271 Necessity for effective communications 273 What you should take away 285 Chapter 11 Conduct Initial Training
  table of contents: In business terms 308 Categories of performance 312 Methods for identifying opportunities 314 Risk 317 Financial normalization 325 Analyze to determine highest potential value opportunities 326 Final stage 329 Expand Leadership Team 330 What you should take away 332 Chapter 13 Process Reliability Techniques Help Make More Money 334 Introduction 334 Pareto distribution 335 Cause of deficiencies 336 Traditional Weibull plots 338 Process Weibull plot 339 Production Weibull analysis 342 Things you should take away 348 Chapter 14 Plan Opportunities for Improvement 350 Appoint Improvement Action Teams 351 Refine preliminary improvement plans 353 Select set of improvement opportunities for detailed plan development 358 Develop detailed improvement action plans for highest value improvements 361 Consider pilot implementation 370 Finalize and submit improvement action plans for approval 372 Following approval 373 What you should take away 374 Chapter 15 Measures of Performance -- Metrics and
  table of contents: KPI's 376 Types of metrics 378 Establishing objectives 381 Use of metrics 383 Hierarchy of Operational Excellence metrics 393 Selection of metrics 399 Key Performance Indicators 402 Graphical displays 403 Benefits of metrics 405 What you should take away 405 Chapter 16 Implement -- Improvement Action Plans 408 Refine the Organization 409 Deploy resources 410 Deploy practices and technology 413 Implement improvement action plans 414 Establish internal oversight and monitoring 416 Drive the improvement process 417 Overcome barriers 418 Communicate results and successes 419 What you should take away 419 Chapter 17 Performance Assessments 421 Overall description 422 Assessment methods 423 Assessment process 423 Assessment preparation 425 Perform the Assessment 429 Assessment Template 433 Conclusion, summary,
  table of contents: Recommendations and site wrap up 439 Prepare formal assessment report 440 Report submission 443 Actions required from assessed operating unit 443 Formal and informal employee satisfaction surveys 443 What you should take away 445 Chapter 18 Check -- Measure and Manage Results 448 Begin with metrics 448 Conduct assessments and surveys 449 Confirm results and contribution to enterprise value and strategy 452 Continue checking until confident that improvement is fully sustained 453 What you should take away 453 Chapter 19 Improve -- Institutionalize and Sustain Gains 455 Improve and sustain 455 Continuous improvement 456 Achieving sustainability 458 Some lessons learned 463 Final comment 464 What you should take away 465 Conclusion -- now it is up to you! 467.
  note: John S. Mitchell.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Production management
  subject:
    topic: Industrial management
  subject:
    topic: Quality control
  subject:
    topic: Total quality management
  classification: TS155 .M6165 2015
  classification: 658.5
  classification: TEC009010
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