By H. James Harrington, Richard Harrington, Jr., Ronald W. Skeddle
April 08, 2023
This book is needed because tools like Six Sigma, Lean, process reengineering, process redesign, and TQM have completely ignored the impact that IT technology is having upon improving an organization’s performance. This book presents an up-to-date view of performance improvement technologies and ...
By H. James Harrington, Frank Voehl
October 08, 2019
Currently, the prime focus for US business plans should not be on the manufacturing process design and delivery processes, but on greatly improving innovation leadership, design engineering capability, and sales and marketing innovation. These three areas have been sadly lacking significant ...
By H. James Harrington
December 13, 2018
People with ideas are dreamers. People who get things done are doers. One doer is worth eight dreamers. There are three kinds of people who make up an innovator. There are inventors (people who have new and unique ideas), problem solvers (people who have ideas about how to correct a previous error)...
By William S. Ruggles, H. James Harrington
March 20, 2018
Project Management for Performance Improvement Teams (or, PM4PITs, for short) provides practical guidance based on innovative concepts for project teams -- especially Performance Improvement Teams (PITs)—and their Project Managers on how to successfully complete individual projects and programs ...
By Christopher F. Voehl, H. James Harrington, William S. Ruggles
December 02, 2015
With an estimated 70 percent of new projects failing to add value to the organization, reducing project failure rate represents one of the biggest improvement opportunities available today. This book highlights proven approaches designed to separate the successful projects from the potential losers...
By H. James Harrington, Chuck Mignosa
February 09, 2015
Many organizations are looking for that magic tool or methodology that will suddenly transform them into outstanding organizations. Unfortunately, there is no one right answer for all organizations or even for a single organization. Successful organizations skillfully integrate the appropriate ...
By Christopher F. Voehl, H. James Harrington, Frank Voehl
October 14, 2014
The best time to stop projects or programs that will not be successful is before they are ever started. Research has shown that the focused use of realistic business case analysis on proposed initiatives could enable your organization to reduce the amount of project waste and churn (rework) by up ...
By H. James Harrington, Brett Trusko
May 19, 2014
Value proposition, an old concept, is taking on new significance in today’s innovation-driven environment. Business focus has shifted from developing many creative ideas to developing only those that will successfully flow through the product cycle and fulfill a customer need. The old approach ...
By H. James Harrington, Robert Lewis
November 18, 2013
Improved communication in business means higher profits. Improved communication in government means happier citizens. Improved communication in healthcare means quicker recoveries, fewer lawsuits, and happier nurses and patients.Closing the Communication Gap can help readers improve communication ...
By H. James Harrington
April 18, 2013
Organizations around the world are rating their improvement efforts as not producing the desired long-term results. Dr. Harrington’s research indicates that this occurs because organizations are using the latest improvement tools and approaches without first defining how they want to change their ...
