Streamline your product management process with gamification strategies, frameworks, and best practices from experts to create remarkable products Key Features Design gamification frameworks that captivate users and deliver a compelling experience Build a successful gamification strategy to go from concept to prototype to production with ease Gamify product management processes using game techniques to effectively lead teams and stakeholders Purchase...

Among the biggest mistakes manufacturers make is not keeping key equipment and processes running and making saleable product when needed. This situation existed when the author Mike Beauregard began working in manufacturing years ago and it currently remains true in companies ostensibly focusing on Lean. To improve, companies often rely on increasing productivity by making products faster and with more automation, but many fail to focus on the area...

"In the conditions of the modern market economy, in which globalization and competition is rife, quality is of great importance for determining a company's position on the market. The changing and complex economic reality is shaping new market patterns whilst modern technologies influence purchasing decisions. This book presents an effective and novel framework for creating value in industry 4.0 conditions by building a smart enterprise model using...

Freedom Within a Framework: Hearing the Voice of the Customer on the Factory Floor (978-0-367-08577-3, K406714) Shelving Guide: Business and Management/Customer Satisfaction/Quality This book shows you how to harmonize three business functions to address customer needs by using a novel approach that combines Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) and Continuous Improvement tools. The DFSS tool used is the Quality Function Deployment (QFD) process, which is also...

This book provides a comprehensive look at four driving philosophies of Lean methodology that many companies struggle to understand. Companies often adopt Lean methodologies and work hard to perfect the use of those methods while never understanding the true intent of the method. Ultimately, knowledge does not equal understanding. "Customer First" is about each manufacturing process sending the next manufacturing process a high-quality defect-free...

This guide explains the fundamental principles of PRINCE2 2017, enabling you to review essential themes before taking your PRINCE2 Foundation exam. Following accreditation, it serves as a reference guide to help you manage ongoing PRINCE2 projects within your organisation.

Developed by the author and now being employed by a number of businesses, Quick Response Manufacturing (QRM) is an expansion of time-based competition, aimed at a single target with the goal of reducing lead times. The key difference between QRM and other time-based programs is that QRM covers an entire organization, from the shop floor to the office, to sales and beyond. Providing guidelines for establishing a QRM enterprise, this volume builds upon...

Written for academicians within the operations management community as well as for behavioral researchers, this book offers a comprehensive resource for the study of how individuals make decisions in an operational context with contributions from experts in the field. --

"This reference text addresses real operation management problem in the thrust areas like health care sector, energy management sector, and industry 4.0. It discusses recent advances and trends in developing the data driven operation management based methodologies, big data analysis, application of computer in industrial engineering, optimization techniques, development of decision support system for industrial operation, role of multi-criteria-decision-making...