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| INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
0070314462 |
| SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER |
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12871 |
| DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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20170126094025.0 |
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25281 |
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UOWD |
| MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Imai, Masaaki, |
| Dates associated with a name |
1930- |
| TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Gemba Kaizen : |
| Remainder of title |
a commonsense, low-cost approach to management / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Masaaki Imai. |
| PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
New York : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
McGraw-Hall, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
1997. |
| PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xxx, 354 p ; |
| Dimensions |
24 cm. |
| SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
In this sequel to his popular business/quality management book, Kaizen: The Key to Japan's Competitive Success (1986), Imai offers a step forward?continuous improvement (kaizen) applied to the concept of continuous improvement in the workplace (gemba). The book reflects a definite operations bias. Indeed, Imai advocates the removal of all those peripheral things (muda) that cloud the focus of an organization. Some of the principles, such as the need for good housekeeping, seem simplistic, but Imai is on solid ground, demonstrating the practicality of gemba kaizen with a number of abbreviated case studies. The one weakness is the lack of adequate recognition of precedent setters: F.W. Taylor's Principles of Scientific Management (1912) and the work of W.A. Shewhart, W.E. Deming, J. Juran, etc. |
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| Program name |
TBS952 TBS950 TBS955 |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Industrial management. |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Service industries |
| General subdivision |
Management. |
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REGULAR |