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Winner of a Shingo Research and Professional Publication AwardThe new edition of this Shingo Prize-winning bestseller provides critical insights and approaches to make any Lean transformation an ongoing success. It shows you how to implement a sustainable, successful transformation by developing a culture that has your stakeholders throughout the organizational chart involved and invested in the outcome. It teaches you how to successfully navigate the politics in cross-functional process improvement projects, and to engage executives in ways that are personally meaningful to them. If you are a leader at any level in an organization undergoing or considering a Lean transformation, this is where you should start and finish ... and start again.Read the Reviews:"This book became an instant classic in the literature of professional operations. In this third edition, David Mann updates and expands his teaching with five additional years of valuable experience and expertise derived from his very active, multi-industry consultancy. I have benefitted greatly from his writing and wholeheartedly recommend this book to be top-of-the desk of any serious Lean practitioner or performance transformation leader."- Raymond C. Floyd, two-time Shingo Prize Winner, President and CEO, Plasco Energy Group"David Mann builds substantially on his seminal work on the Lean management system. The book is full of new insight and polishes the most important ideas about Lean management. The new chapter on engaging executive leadership alone is worth the price of the book."- Peter Ward, Richard M. Ross Professor and Chair, Department of Management Science, Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State University"This book has long been my 'go-to' guide on Lean management practices that help create a culture of continuous improvement and excellence. I have recommended the book to countless healthcare leaders who rave about how helpful it is in translating Lean principles into daily management behaviors. The healthcare examples make it even more relevant as a must read for any hospital leader who aims to move beyond Lean tools.."-Mark Graban, author of Lean Hospitals, co-author of Healthcare Kaizen and The Executive Guide to Healthcare Kaizen"As more companies outside the manufacturing sector pursue Lean transformations, Creating a Lean Culture is as critical a resource as ever. Breaking down silos and navigating tricky internecine politics remain a momentous challenge, and Mann's case-based insights are an invaluable tool."- Peg Pennington, Executive Director, Center for Operational Excellence, Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State University"David has once again taken the topics that trip us up and put structure and guidance around them. His new work on executive involvement is worth the price of the book all by itself. Many of us have struggled with this topic and David provides a path to success."- Elizabeth M. King, Vice President Organizational Effectiveness, ESCO CorporationNew in the Third Edition:Contains new chapter on engaging executives in Lean initiativesIncludes 21 new case studiesPresents new examples from the healthcare and process industriesIncludes additional gemba worksheets for learning and teaching LeanProvides expanded coverage of Lean applications in complex cross functional value stream process improvement projectsWatch David Mann discuss how the latest edition of Creating a Lean Culture can help you and your organization succeed.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zX7jrtV3cBA&feature=youtu.be

Discusses the synthesis, properties, modification of CNT, and progress of carbon nanotubes and their applications for biosensing, cancer treatment, antibacterial therapy, tissue engineering, targeted drug delivery, and toxicity.

Examines in depth how AI innovation is creating knowledge, improving efficiency, and elevating quality of life for millions of people and how it applies to the service industry. It addresses advances, issues, and challenges of diverse service areas, including healthcare, mental health, management, learning and education, and others.

This new 3-volume set provides informative reviews on the physiology of sponges, cnidarians, round and flat worms, annelids, echinoderms, and crustaceans. Chapters on crustacean physiology are grouped in Volume 2 and cover physiological topics like moulting, respiration, water balance, biomineralization, bioreceptors, etc.

This new 3-volume set provides informative reviews on the physiology of sponges, cnidarians, round and flat worms, annelids, echinoderms, and crustaceans. Echinoderms and annelids are covered in Volume 3. It covers temporary adhesion and regeneration, juxtaligamental cells, annelid physiology, neuro-endocrine-immune response, etc.

This 3-volume set provides informative reviews on the physiology of sponges, cnidarians, round and flat worms, annelids, echinoderms, and crustaceans. Volume 1 looks at non-bilaterians (sponges, cnidarians, placozoans).

Investigates recent innovations in active, intelligent, and smart packaging systems that embrace packaging potential to not only provide protection to food but can also improve nutritive value, reduce contamination by releasing antimicrobials, and provide real-time status of food quality.

Biodiversity is declining at an alarming rate due to anthropogenic activities around the world. This book is the first volume in the new series Biodiversity Hotspots of the World, which highlights the 36 hotspot regions of the world, regions that were designated as reaping maximum benefit from preservation efforts. This series is our humble attempt to document these hotspots as a conservation and preservation measure.This first volume in the series focuses on the Western Ghats and Sri Lanka, construed as forming a community of species because of their shared biogeographical history. The volume explores the diversity and conservation efforts of the extraordinarily rich species found here, including plants, many of which are found nowhere else in the world; forests, which face tremendous population pressure and have been dramatically impacted by demands for timber and agricultural land; as well as the hotspot's diverse mammals, birds, insects, and amphibian species, and more. The volumes in this series will be essential resources for researchers and practitioners in the fields of conservation biology, ecology, and evolution.

Focuses on novel breeding and biotechnological approaches for crop improvement, covering advances in molecular breeding and plant breeding, such as pre-breeding, reverse breeding, allele mining, next-generation sequencing, etc., to develop climate-resilient crops that can withstand hostility or adversities of climate.

Explores macromolecular science and its current challenges, applications, and solutions to challenges. It discusses new applications of polymers and their composites and innovations in the synthesis and characterization of polymers, providing explanations of the behavior of polymers in solutions and in bulk.

This new three-volume set comprehensively illustrates a wide range of analytical techniques and methodologies for assessing the physical, chemical, and microbiological properties of milk and milk products to ensure nutritional and technological quality and safety of milk and milk products.This volume focuses on various analytical methods for physicochemical and compositional analysis of concentrated, coagulated, and fermented dairy products in detail. It also describes the standard methodologies for the analysis of nutraceutical components and food additives commonly used in various dairy products to meet technological and nutritional quality standards.The other volumes are: Volume 1: Sampling Methods, Chemical, and Compositional AnalysisVolume 3: Microbiological Analysis is forthcoming.Together, these three volumes will be a complete and thorough reference on analytical methods for milk and milk products. The volumes will be valuable for researchers, scientists, food analysts, food analysis and research laboratory personnel involved in the area of milk and milk products analysis as well as for faculty and students.

Illustrates analytical techniques and methodologies for assessing the physical, chemical, and microbiological properties of milk and milk products to ensure quality and safety. Covers the main analytical techniques and methodologies and their application to the compounds involved in nutritional and technological quality.

This valuable resource on the microbiological analysis of milk and milk products delves into various aspects of bacterial enumeration, pathogen detection, mastitis milk identification, quality testing for starter cultures, isolation and characterization of lactic acid bacteria (LAB), safety assessment protocols for probiotics, DNA isolation methods, molecular characterization techniques, and statistical tools for laboratory data analysis. It presents an in-depth description of the methodologies for isolation, identification, and confirmatory tests for various hygiene and safety indicator organisms.Together with Volume 1: Sampling Methods and Chemical and Compositional Analysis and Volume 2: Physicochemical Analysis of Concentrated, Coagulated, and Fermented Products, this 3-volume work is a valuable resource on the scientific analysis of milk and milk products.

Explores the role of nutrition in creating integral health while considering the challenges of today's lifestyle and environmental issues. It uses interdisciplinary research while offering outstanding and novel contributions in research studies of integral health and how health is affected by nutrition and its impact on the quality of life.

Providing innovative efficient, clean, and safe solutions and research for interfacing internet technology with energy power grids for smart cities and smart transportation, this new volume discusses the use and automation of electricity infrastructures for energy producers and manufacturers, integrating the implementation of the Internet of Things (IoT) technology for distributed energy systems in order to optimize energy efficiency and wastage. This volume offers a wide range of research on using IoT for energy solutions, such as algorithms for the design and control of energy grids, investigations of thermal efficiency from solar grids, energy for smart buildings using IoT, deep learning for electrical load forecasting, hybrid ultracapacitors in solar microgrids, induction motor-driven electric vehicles, power loss reduction and voltage improvement, and much more.

Looks at protected cultivation techniques to safeguard crop plants from the harmful effects of climate change, toxic chemicals, and crop pests and diseases. Covers structure design, crop cultivation techniques, irrigation and fertigation, insect pests and diseases management, economic analysis, greenhouse micro-climate/environment, etc.

Addresses the arsenic-rice problem, with effective mitigation strategies. It reviews long-distance translocation, arsenic-induced phytotoxicity, economic measures to reduce arsenic load, and techniques that are agronomically and environmentally safe.

A comprehensive overview of phytoremediation and biofortification for sustainable environmental management. Topics include strategies that use nanotechnology; algae, fungi, and other plants; CRISPR/Cas9-mediated genome engineering; and more for decontamination of water and soil and for fortifying plants against climate change, etc.

Presents the most recent studies on the different aspects of biocomposites. The chapters focus on the overall characteristics of biocomposites, including chemical composition along with engineering and technical properties of the most in-demand green materials employed for fabricating biocomposites.

Covers digital technological intervention for precision agriculture for sustainable development. It delves into how modern technologies i.e., GPS, image processing, artificial intelligence, machine learning, Internet of Things, and deep learning are being used in agriculture to make it more farmer-friendly and economically profitable.

Presents new research on advanced technologies for food processing, discussing cold plasma, ultrasound processing, thermosonication, microwave processing, high-pressure processing, electrospinning technology, encapsulation techniques, 3D food printing, ELISA in food authentication, nanotechnology in food processing, etc.

Discusses the immune-boosting properties of nutraceuticals and functional foods toward human health, exploring dietary antioxidants, vitamins, minerals, edible microalgae, herbs, phytonutrients, omega 3-fatty acids, and probiotics of herbs and vegetables and the pharmacological and therapeutic importance of commonly used medicinal herbs.

Presents new applications, techniques, and algorithms in AI and soft computing for intelligent, such as deep learning, robotics, machine learning, blockchain, emerging cloud, edge computing, Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance consensus, CNN architecture, Splunk, genetic algorithms, and more.

Discusses food byproducts as value-added renewable sources using biotechnologies that avoid hazardous chemicals. It explores the value-added properties of food wastes and looks at waste byproducts of various crops, their health-benefiting bioactive compounds, and biotechnological strategies to extract, produce, and recover compounds.

Examines the bacterial and fungal pathogens that can cause rice diseases and explores how to manage these diseases, focusing on diagnostic methods for rice fungal pathogens, traditional and molecular techniques for detection, such as biotechnology and biological methods for the effective management of rice fungal diseases.

Examines the studies on mycorrhizal technology that show the positive impact of root symbiosis on plant adaptation to climate-associated abiotic stressors, such as salinity, drought, flooding, and high temperatures.

Offers post-COVID tourism recovery strategies and discusses trends in the travel, tourism, and hospitality with case studies from around the world. Topics cover post-pandemic travel preferences, safety protocols, sustainable tourism practices, post-COVID public policies for tourism, specific tourism/ hospitality sectors, and more.

A thorough guide to travel and tourism for treatment of health-related issues. It covers the benefits and challenges, the effect of COVID-19 on medical tourism, selecting the right destination and facility, ending your life in another country, birth tourism, medical travel for second opinions, privacy and health data security, etc.

Discusses the concerns of hematopoietic challenges, offering a comprehensive overview of the regulation of blood cell development, epigenetic mechanisms, and regulatory non-coding RNAs. It presents concepts related to regulation of hematopoietic stem cell development, as well as survival, proliferation, and differentiation.

This comprehensive resource presents new and up-to-date theoretical, and experimental corrosion inhibition studies. It provides an overview and theoretical and experimental studies to mitigate damage from corrosion. It covers an array of topics on the study of corrosion science, exploring types of materials and methods of inhibition.