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"Originally developed at Toyota, the approach to manufacturing
known as Kanban has helped revolutionize how corporations and
suppliers achieve maximum efficiency in getting products to and
from the assembly line. When implemented properly, the Kanban
technique minimizes waste, avoids overproduction, and ensures quick
response to changes and problems. Kanban Made Simple is the first
simple 'how-to' guide for incorporating the just-in-time ingenuity
of the Kanban system into any manufacturing environment. From the
Japanese word for "visual record," the technique dictates that
suppliers deliver parts to the warehouse only as they are needed,
reducing storage in the production area. Using before-and-after
case studies, this easy-to-follow guide contains information on
establishing project goals, forming a Kanban team, and designing
the process. Kanban Made Simple helps readers decide if Kanban is
right for their organization, then teaches them how to train
personnel and administer the program. A ready-to-use CD-ROM,
included with the book, guides the Kanban team through the entire
implementation process."
"Plant engineers and maintenance managers know from experience:
All manufacturing equipment will break down, often at the worst
possible moment. To survive in today's lean-and-mean manufacturing
environment, companies must head off these breakdowns with a
preventive-maintenance management program that is both systematic
and flexible -- and geared toward minimizing downtime and
maximizing equipment life.
"Fundamentals of Preventive Maintenance" provides readers with
an easy-to-follow, economically sensible maintenance and workorder
management program. This results-driven guidebook outlines a 7-step
process for designing and implementing the program, describing what
needs to be done -- and why. Designed to transform an often
unwieldy program into one that can be effectively managed, it
provides hands-on techniques for:
* Establishing critical scheduling protocols
* Managing the daily workorder schedule
* Developing and issuing preventive maintenance workorders
* Monitoring the program and making improvements"
Group psychotherapy in college counseling centers continues to
thrive as a popular approach to working with college students, and
yet there continues to be a lack of up-to-date, comprehensive
resources for group psychotherapists working with this unique
population. The College Counselor's Guide to Group Psychotherapy
highlights the role of the group therapist within college
counseling centers; provides practical, step-by-step instructions
for creating a thriving group program and culture; and unveils some
of the opportunities to expand this under-recognized practice
setting. This exciting new volume draws on the most current
knowledge on group psychotherapy while paying particular attention
to issues and ethical dilemmas that are unique to working with
college students.
Group psychotherapy in college counseling centers continues to
thrive as a popular approach to working with college students, and
yet there continues to be a lack of up-to-date, comprehensive
resources for group psychotherapists working with this unique
population. The College Counselor's Guide to Group Psychotherapy
highlights the role of the group therapist within college
counseling centers; provides practical, step-by-step instructions
for creating a thriving group program and culture; and unveils some
of the opportunities to expand this under-recognized practice
setting. This exciting new volume draws on the most current
knowledge on group psychotherapy while paying particular attention
to issues and ethical dilemmas that are unique to working with
college students.
Too Good to Fail: Creating Marketplace Value form the World's
Brightest Minds is a guide for senior managers seeking to address
their need to rapidly develop globally innovative products with
constrained R&D budgets. It creates a practical strategy to
address and bring together, for the first time, the emergence of
open innovation networks, intellectual property, technology
transfer and the ubiquitous compression of technology development
time lines in a clear, connected and lucid manner. In the industry
today, companies look to remain competitive in the face of the
convergence of global innovation networks and sub-optimal equity
markets. This book offers a new perspective, turning what was once
perceived as a weakness into a strength. Drastic action is required
to address the inability of companies to control the development of
new technology. It requires relinquishing the illusion of control
over new technology development and embracing crowdsourcing
discoveries from the world's leading research institutions to
exogenously replace the "R" of corporate "R&D." The synthesis
of the literatures on open innovation and technology transfer
should prove useful to the growing number of practitioners in
technology transfer. The recent global emergence of Patent Box tax
relief has for the first time created the financial incentives for
firms to seek to create marketplace value from university
intellectual capital, to improve both their competitiveness and
after tax income.
Too Good to Fail: Creating Marketplace Value form the World's
Brightest Minds is a guide for senior managers seeking to address
their need to rapidly develop globally innovative products with
constrained R&D budgets. It creates a practical strategy to
address and bring together, for the first time, the emergence of
open innovation networks, intellectual property, technology
transfer and the ubiquitous compression of technology development
time lines in a clear, connected and lucid manner. In the industry
today, companies look to remain competitive in the face of the
convergence of global innovation networks and sub-optimal equity
markets. This book offers a new perspective, turning what was once
perceived as a weakness into a strength. Drastic action is required
to address the inability of companies to control the development of
new technology. It requires relinquishing the illusion of control
over new technology development and embracing crowdsourcing
discoveries from the world's leading research institutions to
exogenously replace the "R" of corporate "R&D." The synthesis
of the literatures on open innovation and technology transfer
should prove useful to the growing number of practitioners in
technology transfer. The recent global emergence of Patent Box tax
relief has for the first time created the financial incentives for
firms to seek to create marketplace value from university
intellectual capital, to improve both their competitiveness and
after tax income.
Dr. Milton M. Gross, the editor of these volumes, died on July 29,
1976, after a brief illness. As chairman of the section on
Biomedical Research in Alcoholism of the I.C.A.A., he had plan ned
and brought to fruition the international "Symposium on Alcohol
Intoxication and Withdrawal" which had taken place in Lausanne the
month before. He was particularly proud of the distinguished group
of scientists he had helped to assemble and was eagerly looking for
ward to the publication of these proceedings which he hoped would
extend our understanding of the phenomenology of alcoholism. Milton
Gross was a most unusual man in the extent and range of his
activities and accomplishments. He was a certified psy chiatrist
and psychoanalyst, a recognized clinical researcher, the author of
more than fifty scientific papers, and the editor of three
important volumes on alcohol intoxication and withdrawal. He was
extremely active in the scientific world of alcoholism as planner
and coordinator of three international conferences, as chairman of
the section on Biomedical Research of the I.C.A.A., and as a member
of a W.H.O. Task Force on Alcoholism. In addition, he was very
active in a variety of scientific and service committees in
national and local organizations."
The contributions to this volume clearly indicate the momentum,
quality, liveliness and diversity of the research effort being di
rected toward deepening our understanding of tqe alcohol withdrawal
syndrome. This area of study has gained increasing interest and
attention to the point where it seemed reasonable to devote a spe
cial section to it at the 30th International Congress for
Alcoholism and Drug Dependence in Amsterdam in September, 1972. Our
goal was to share our most recent findings and stimulate others to
join in the effort. With few exceptions, the papers in this
publication present new data. It had been hoped that the volume
would appear by the end of 1972. However, the eagerness of many of
the contributors to extend their investigations made this target
date impossible. Several of the papers were not presented in the
section but were presented elsewhere in the Congress. However,
because of their particular relevance to the topic they have been
included with the generous consent of the authors."
Since 1978, the editors have collaborated on several research
projects and spent many hours at conventions discussing research,
graduate education, and patient care. The idea for this volume
arose when we both concluded that the area of behavioral pediatrics
needed a "how to" book. Several important scholarly re views had
recently appeared. They presented excellent summary information
concerning the general assumptions and theories underlying the area
of behav ioral medicine with children. But these volumes devote
very little attention to the application of clinical methods. What
was needed, we thought, was a book that would allow graduate
students and practicing clinicians the opportunity to peer into the
minds of eminent practitioners and understand their thinking. Thus
the book was conceived. Editing books represents a special kind of
challenge. One has to "sell" an idea to a group of distinguished
colleagues. They have to believe enough in that idea to devote the
considerable time and effort necessary to bring thought into
reality. In this case, there were two ideas we tried to sell to our
colleagues."
What it is like to be a collegian involved in a Christian
organization on a public college campus? What roles do Christian
organizations play in the lives of college students enrolled in a
public college? What are evangelical student organizations
political agendas, and how do they mobilize members to advance
these agendas? What is the optimal equilibrium between the secular
and the sacred within public higher education? What constitutes
safe space for evangelical students, and who should provide this
space? This book presents a two-year ethnographic study of a
collegiate evangelical student organization at a public university,
authored by two non-evangelicals. The authors provide a glimpse
into the lives of college students who join evangelical student
organizations and who subscribe to an evangelical way of life
during their college years. They offer empirically derived insights
as to how students participation in a homogeneous evangelical
student organization enhances their satisfaction of their
collegiate experience and helps them develop important life lessons
and skills. Ironically, while Christian students represent the
religious majority on the campus under study, Christian
organizations on this campus mobilize members by capitalizing on
members shared sense of marginalization, and position themselves as
cultural outsiders. This evangelical student organization serves as
a safe space for students to express their faith within the larger
secular university setting.The narratives and interpretations aim
not only to enrich understanding of a particular student
organization but more importantly to spark intellectual discourse
about the value of faith-based organizations within public higher
education. The role of religion in public higher education, student
involvement in the co-curriculum, and peer education are three
examples of critical issues in higher education for which this
idiosyncratic case study offers broad understanding. "It s All
About Jesus " targets multiple audiences both sacred and secular.
For readers unfamiliar with evangelical collegiate organizations
and the students they serve, the authors hope the narratives make
the unfamiliar familiar and the dubious obvious. For evangelicals,
the authors hope that the thickly described narratives not only
make the familiar, familiar and the obvious, obvious, but also
uncover the tacit meaning embedded in these familiar, but seldom
examined subculture rituals. The authors hope this book spurs
discussion on topics such as campus power and politics, how
organizations interact with the secular world around them, and how
members can improve their organizations. Additionally, this text
urges secular readers in student affairs to consider the many
benefits, as well as liabilities, of parachurches as co-curricular
learning sites on campus.Lastly, given that the authors lay bare
their methodology, their use of theory, and the tensions between
their perspectives and those of the participants, this book will
serve as a compelling case study for courses on qualitative
research within religion studies, anthropology, sociology, and
cultural studies fields."
Protestantism, at its best, grounds both its religious and its
social critique in the faith of the prophets and the life and
teachings of Jesus Christ as understood and lived by the church.
Its teachings and desired practice stand in start contrast to
complacent religion that seems to be at ease with imperial greed,
domination, and violence. Resistance and Theological Ethics
collects the edited and updated essays that emerged from the
meeting of the Theological Educators for Presbyterian Social
Witness in Geneva, Switzerland and southern France in 1999.
Inspired there by the sixteenth century forces of renewal unleashed
through resistance to an imperial church and society, the writings
of these educators and ethicists combine to sound a clarion call
for the church to stand in resistance to social, economic and
political forces that threaten while embracing those that foster
social justice, peace and human welfare. Each author emphasizes a
specific call to nonviolent resistance against powers grounded in
particular forms of sin: religious pride, greed, violence and
domination. Divided into three parts, the book details social
forces to be resisted, presents historical and biblical examples of
resistance, and concludes with theological analysis and advocacy
for action in contemporary American society."
If rhetoric is the art of speaking, who is listening? In
Being-Moved, Daniel M. Gross provides an answer, showing when and
where the art of speaking parted ways with the art of listening -
and what happens when they intersect once again. Much in the
history of rhetoric must be rethought along the way. And much of
this rethinking pivots around Martin Heidegger's early lectures on
Aristotle's Rhetoric where his famous topic, Being, gives way to
being-moved. The results, Gross goes on to show, are profound.
Listening to the gods, listening to the world around us, and even
listening to one another in the classroom - all of these
experiences become different when rhetoric is reoriented from the
voice to the ear.
If rhetoric is the art of speaking, who is listening? In
Being-Moved, Daniel M. Gross provides an answer, showing when and
where the art of speaking parted ways with the art of listening –
and what happens when they intersect once again. Much in the
history of rhetoric must be rethought along the way. And much of
this rethinking pivots around Martin Heidegger’s early lectures
on Aristotle’s Rhetoric where his famous topic,
Being, gives way to being-moved. The results, Gross goes on to
show, are profound. Listening to the gods, listening to the world
around us, and even listening to one another in the classroom –
all of these experiences become different when rhetoric is
reoriented from the voice to the ear.
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