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Stop Rising Healthcare Costs Using Toyota Lean Production Methods: 38 Steps for Improvement
Robert Chalice
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2. UPCOMING BOOKS FROM QUALITY PRESS

Value-Driven Channel Strategy: Extending the Lean Approach
R. Eric Reidenbach and Reginald W. Goeke
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Quality Makes Money: How to Involve Every Person on the Payroll in a Complete Quality Process (CQP)
Pat Townsend and Joan Gebhardt
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The Progressive Audit: A Toolkit for Improving Your Organizational Quality Culture
Robert Pfannerstill
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4. NEW TO THE QUALITY PRESS BOOKSTORE

It Doesn't Matter Business Processes Do: A Critical Analysis of Nicholas Carr's I. T. Article in the Harvard Business Review
Howard Smith and Peter Fingar
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5. LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD FOR QUALITY PRESS AUTHOR

Wayne Nelson, ASQ Fellow and Quality Press author, received the 2005 Lifetime Achievement Award of the Reliability Society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). This award recognizes Nelson's many innovative developments of practical methods for analysis of reliability and accelerated test data, his effective and knowledgeable teaching of thousands of reliability practitioners, and his skilled consulting.
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