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The notion of 'Quality' in business performance has exploded since
the publication of the first edition of this classic text in 1989.
Today there is a plethora of performance improvement frameworks
including lean-Six Sigma and the latest version of ISO 9001,
offering an often confusing variety of ways to achieve business
excellence. Quality guru John Oakland's famous TQM model, in many
ways a precursor to these frameworks, has evolved to become the
ultimate holistic overview of performance improvement strategy.
Incorporating the frameworks that succeeded it, the revised model
redefines Quality by: Accelerating change Reducing cost Protecting
reputation The popular, practical, jargon-free writing style, along
with ten supporting case studies, effortlessly ties the model to
its real-life applications, making it easy to understand how to
apply what you've learned to your practices and achieve sustainable
competitive advantage. Guiding readers through the language of TQM
and OpEx and all their recent developments, including data
analytics, this book sets out a clear way to manage change. This
exciting update of a classic is all the busy student or
professional will need to begin understanding how to manage Quality
and achieve Operational Excellence.
The notion of 'Quality' in business performance has exploded since
the publication of the first edition of this classic text in 1989.
Today there is a plethora of performance improvement frameworks
including lean-Six Sigma and the latest version of ISO 9001,
offering an often confusing variety of ways to achieve business
excellence. Quality guru John Oakland's famous TQM model, in many
ways a precursor to these frameworks, has evolved to become the
ultimate holistic overview of performance improvement strategy.
Incorporating the frameworks that succeeded it, the revised model
redefines Quality by: Accelerating change Reducing cost Protecting
reputation The popular, practical, jargon-free writing style, along
with ten supporting case studies, effortlessly ties the model to
its real-life applications, making it easy to understand how to
apply what you've learned to your practices and achieve sustainable
competitive advantage. Guiding readers through the language of TQM
and OpEx and all their recent developments, including data
analytics, this book sets out a clear way to manage change. This
exciting update of a classic is all the busy student or
professional will need to begin understanding how to manage Quality
and achieve Operational Excellence.
Michael Turner argues that the root causes of failures in American
intelligence can be found in the way it is organized and in the
intelligence process itself. Intelligence that has gone awry
affects national decision making and, ultimately, American national
security. Intelligence officials are reluctant to talk about
intelligence successes, claiming “the secret of our success is
the secret of our success.” But these officials also shy away
from talking about failures, largely because doing so would expose
the failings of American intelligence and have an impact on policy
consumers who may become more reluctant to accept and act on the
intelligence they receive. Rather than focusing on case studies,
the book takes a holistic approach, beginning with structural
issues and all dysfunctions that emanate from them. Turner explores
each step of the intelligence cycle—priority setting,
intelligence collection, analysis, production, and
dissemination—to identify the“inflection points” within each
stage that contribute to intelligence failures. Finally, he
examines a variety of plans that, if implemented, would reduce the
likelihood of intelligence failures. While examining the causes of
intelligence failures, Turner also explores intelligence as a
critical governmental activity, making the book an excellent primer
on secret intelligence. Turner writes in jargon-free prose for the
informed reader interested in foreign policy and national security
policy matters and brings enough depth to his subject that even
experts will find this a must-read.
While the United States has had some kind of intelligence
capability throughout its history, its intelligence apparatus is
young, dating only to the period immediately after World War II.
Yet, in that short a time, it has undergone enormous changes from
the labor-intensive espionage and covert action establishment of
the 1950s to a modern enterprise that relies heavily on electronic
data, technology, satellites, airborne collection platforms, and
unmanned aerial vehicles, to name a few. This second edition covers
the history of United States intelligence, and includes several key
features: .Chronology .Introductory essay .Appendixes .Bibliography
.Over 600 cross-referenced entries on key events, issues, people,
operations, laws, regulations This book is an excellent access
point for members of the intelligence community; students,
scholars, and historians; legal experts; and general readers
wanting to know more about the history of U.S. intelligence."
This compendium of over 500 entries on the most important and
relevant personalities, programs, activities, and agencies of U.S.
intelligence, beginning with the Sons of Liberty before the onset
of the Revolutionary War until the most recent reorganization of
the U.S. intelligence community, covers the myriad pieces of
legislation that have governed the activities of U.S. intelligence,
from the National Security Act of 1947, which still constitutes the
fundamental law setting up modern U.S. intelligence, to the
Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004, which
established the new position of the Director of National
Intelligence. Each entry is cross-referenced for easy navigation
and provides a definition as well as a brief but complete
historical evaluation of the subject. The A to Z of United States
Intelligence traces more than two centuries of history in the
chronology. The introduction explains just what intelligence is and
does, showing how U.S. intelligence operations have evolved.
Appendixes list Directors and Deputy Directors of Central
Intelligence. The bibliography provides the most relevant and
important sources for those interested in further reading.
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