Integrated management systems : a practical approach to transforming organizations /

"In 1993, the Center for Quality of Management embarked on a six-year study of how organizations improve throughout America. Contrary to expectations, the authors found that successful systems of management differed radically."--BOOK JACKET. "Yet at the core of each was something univ...

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Main Author: Lee, Thomas H., 1923-2001
Other Authors: Wood, Robert Chapman, Shiba, Shōji, 1933-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York ; Chichester : Wiley, c1999.
Series:Wiley operations management series for professionals.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. The Theory and Practice of Integrated Management Systems: Putting the Scientific Method to Work
  • 2. Pioneers in Integrated Management Systems: What Manufacturers Learned from Crisis
  • 3. The Service Industries: Integrated Management for Radically Different Processes
  • 4. Achieving Diverse Purposes: Integrated Systems in Education
  • 5. Managing the Most Complex Processes: Integrated Systems in Health Care
  • 6. Better Lives for Sailors and Continuous Improvement Processes: Integrated Systems in the Military
  • 7. The Challenge of Intransigent Organizations: Integrated Systems in Government Agencies
  • 8. Act Locally: What We Have Learned, What You Can Do
  • 9. Think Globally: The State of Management Today: What Still Must Be Done
  • App. A. The Systems Theories of Russell Ackoff
  • App. B. Leadership and Breakthrough
  • App. C. The Power of Collective Action
  • App. D. Conversation Competence / David Walden.