Innovative Quality Improvements in Operations Introducing Emergent Quality Management /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Backström, Tomas (Editor), Fundin, Anders (Editor), Johansson, Peter E. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, 255
• Subjects: Business.; Management.; Industrial management.; Production management.; Operations research.; Decision making.; Business and Management.; Operation Research/Decision Theory.; Innovation/Technology Management.; Production.

This book examines current and emerging challenges in manufacturing related to the ideal of developing production processes with variability and agility on one level of the system, combined with structures ensuring stability and robustness on another level; close to what by other scholars has been d...

Table of Contents:

• Contents
• Introduction by editors
• Quality management for both stability and development (Anders Fundin and Bo Bergman)
• Explore and exploit in lean production (Peter E Johansson)
• Kaikaku and kaizen in lean production (Yuji Yamamoto)
• A knowledge perspective on explore and exploit (Mattias Elg)
• An organizational perspective on explore and exploit (John Bessent)
• Leadership for exploration and exploitation (Tomas Backström and Jim Hazy)
• Idea-generation and idea-implementation as a group task (Bengt Köping Olsson)
• Creating spaces for exploration and exploitation (Jennie Schaeffer)
• Conclusion and future research directions by editors.