Download or read book Principles of Quality Costs Fourth Edition written by Douglas C. Wood and published by Quality Press. This book was released on 2012-12-28 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last decade has seen wide changes in how quality standards are applied in industry. We now have two functions: quality assurance and process improvement. Quality assurance focuses primarily on product quality, while process improvement focuses on process quality; the principles of quality cost support both. The purpose of this book remains the same as the third edition: to provide a basic understanding of the principles of quality cost. Using this book, organizations can develop and implement a quality cost system to fit their needs. Used as an adjunct to overall financial management, these principles will help maintain vital quality improvement programs over extended timeframes. This fourth edition now includes information on the quality cost systems involved with the education, service, banking, and software development industries. You'll also find new material on ISO 9001, cost systems in small businesses, and activity based costing. Additional information on team-based problem-solving, customer satisfaction, and the costs involved with the defense industry are also offered.
Download or read book Cost Benefit Analysis of Environmental Health Interventions written by Carla Guerriero and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2019-11-29 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cost-benefit Analysis of Environmental Health Interventions clearly articulates the core principles and fundamental methodologies underpinning the modern economic assessment of environmental intervention on human health. Taking a practical approach, the book provides a step-by-step approach to assigning a monetary value to the health benefits and disbenefits arising from interventions, using environmental information and epidemiological evidence. It summarizes environmental risk factors and explores how to interpret and understand epidemiological data using concentration-response, exposure-response or dose-response techniques, explaining the environmental interventions available for each environmental risk factor. It evaluates in detail two of the most challenging stages of Cost-Benefit Analysis in 'discounting' and 'accounting for uncertainty'. Further chapters describe how to analyze and critique results, evaluate potential alternatives to Cost-Benefit Analysis, and on how to engage with stakeholders to communicate the results of Cost-Benefit Analysis. The book includes a detailed case study how to conduct a Cost-Benefit Analysis. It is supported by an online website providing solution files and detailing the design of models using Excel. - Provides a clear understanding of the core theory of cost-benefit analysis in environmental health interventions - Provides practical guidance using real-world case studies to motivate and expand understanding - Describes the challenging 'discounting' and 'accounting for uncertainty' problems at chapter length - Supported by a practical case study, online solution files, and a practical guide to the design of CBA models using Excel
Download or read book Performance Improvement Basics written by Cynthia Barnard and published by HC Pro, Inc.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cost Benefit Analysis written by Anthony E. Boardman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-14 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourth edition of Cost-Benefit Analysis is an authoritative, market-leading textbook that provides a practical introduction to cost-benefit analysis through problem solving. The text uses a consistent application of a nine-step framework for interpreting a cost-benefit analysis. This edition has been fully revised, updated and re-organized to provide the material more effectively. It presents application over abstract theory and clear discussion over mathematics to appeal to a larger, more diverse audience.
Download or read book Poor Quality Cost written by H. James Harrington and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1987-02-26 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An easy-to-read and highly informative book on an extremely important subject.Provides a road map for establishing a system for the identification and elimination of poor-quality costs.Gives management at all levels an important tool for maximization of profit eliminating the concept of optimum operating quality-cost point.
Download or read book Executing Data Quality Projects written by Danette McGilvray and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Information is currency. Recent studies show that data quality problems are costing businesses billions of dollars each year, with poor data linked to waste and inefficiency, damaged credibility among customers and suppliers, and an organizational inability to make sound decisions. In this important and timely new book, Danette McGilvray presents her "Ten Steps approach to information quality, a proven method for both understanding and creating information quality in the enterprise. Her trademarked approach—in which she has trained Fortune 500 clients and hundreds of workshop attendees—applies to all types of data and to all types of organizations.* Includes numerous templates, detailed examples, and practical advice for executing every step of the "Ten Steps approach.* Allows for quick reference with an easy-to-use format highlighting key concepts and definitions, important checkpoints, communication activities, and best practices.* A companion Web site includes links to numerous data quality resources, including many of the planning and information-gathering templates featured in the text, quick summaries of key ideas from the Ten Step methodology, and other tools and information available online.
Download or read book Lean Systems written by Elizabeth A. Cudney and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2013-10-16 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lean Systems: Applications and Case Studies in Manufacturing, Service, and Healthcare details the various Lean techniques and numerous real-world Lean projects drawn from a wide variety of manufacturing, healthcare, and service processes, demonstrating how to apply the Lean philosophy. The book facilitates Lean instruction by supplying interactive case studies that enable readers to apply the various Lean techniques. It provides an in-depth discussion of the Lean tools (i.e., VSM, standard work, 5S, etc.) and several real-world case studies and applications of Lean that have shown significant improvement in meeting customer requirements. The case studies follow the Six Sigma framework of Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control (DMAIC) structure for process improvement. The authors include detailed descriptions of each Lean tool and examples of how each Lean technique was applied to a wide variety of manufacturing, service, and healthcare processes. These in-depth descriptions and cases studies can be used by industry professionals and academics to learn how to apply Lean. They provide a detailed, step-by-step approach to Lean and demonstrate how to integrate Lean tools for process improvement and to sustain improvements. But more than this, the approach taken in this book gives readers the tools to effectively apply Lean techniques.
Download or read book PMP Project Management Professional Exam Study Guide written by Kim Heldman and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-06-10 with total page 699 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ultimate package for preparing you to take the PMP® exam Project management is one of the most desired skills in today's IT marketplace and the Project Management Professional (PMP) exam reflects your level of proficiency and preparedness as a project manager. This comprehensive study guide features the Sybex test engine with two practice PMP exams, electronic flashcards, two hours of audio review, as well as two bonus Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM®) exams. The book covers a wide-range of project management and exam topics, concepts, and key terms. Not only does this must-have resource reflect the very latest version of the exam, it is written by popular project management expert Kim Heldman, who is the author of the six previous editions of this top-selling book. Prepares you to take the Project Management Professional (PMP) exam as well as the Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM) exam, both offered by the Project Management Institute (PMI®) Covers all exam topic areas plus a wide range of project management processes, concepts, and key terms Uses real-world scenarios and How This Applies to Your Current Project sidebars to fully illustrate concepts Readers get access to invaluable study tools with testing software, practice exams, electronic flashcards, and over two hours of audio review PMP: Project Management Professional Exam Study Guide, Seventh Edition helps you prepare for the PMP exam and also serves as an essential resource for becoming a more astute project manager. (PMI, CAPM, PMP, and Project Management Professional are registered marks of the Project Management Institute, Inc.)
Download or read book Economic Evaluation in Education written by Henry M. Levin and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2017-06-15 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The past decade has seen increased attention to cost-effectiveness and benefit-cost analysis in education as administrators are being asked to accomplish more with the same or even fewer resources, philanthropists are keen to calculate their "return on investment" in social programs, and the general public is increasingly scrutinizing how resources are allocated to schools and colleges. Economic Evaluation in Education: Cost-Effectiveness and Benefit-Cost Analysis (titled Cost-Effectiveness Analysis: Methods and Applications in its previous editions) is the only full-length book to provide readers with the step-by-step methods they need to plan and implement a benefit-cost analysis in education. Authors Henry M. Levin, Patrick J. McEwan, Clive Belfield, Alyshia Brooks Bowden, and Robert Shand examine a range of issues, including how to identify, measure, and distribute costs; how to measure effectiveness, utility, and benefits; and how to incorporate cost evaluations into the decision-making process. The updates to the Third Edition reflect the considerable methodological development in the evaluation literature, and the greater empiricism practiced by education researchers, to help readers learn to apply more advanced methods to their own analyses.
Download or read book Health System Efficiency written by Jonathan Cylus and published by Health Policy. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book the authors explore the state of the art on efficiency measurement in health systems and international experts offer insights into the pitfalls and potential associated with various measurement techniques. The authors show that: - The core idea of efficiency is easy to understand in principle - maximizing valued outputs relative to inputs, but is often difficult to make operational in real-life situations - There have been numerous advances in data collection and availability, as well as innovative methodological approaches that give valuable insights into how efficiently health care is delivered - Our simple analytical framework can facilitate the development and interpretation of efficiency indicators.
Download or read book Handbook of Fundamentals of Modern Vocational Education written by Felix Rauner and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 1248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Methods for the Economic Evaluation of Health Care Programmes written by M. F. Drummond and published by Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; Toronto : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1987-01 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As concern over costs grows in the health care sector, those involved in health economics require a clear understanding of methods used in cost-effectiveness, cost benefit, and cost-utility studies. This book provides the reader with the necessary methodological tools for undertaking the task of economic evaluation and includes discussions of many case studies, helpful illustrations, and simple exercises.
Download or read book Cost Benefit Analysis and the Environment Further Developments and Policy Use written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2018-06-25 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores recent developments in environmental cost-benefit analysis (CBA). This is defined as the application of CBA to projects or policies that have the deliberate aim of environmental improvement or are actions that affect, in some way, the natural environment as an indirect consequence
Download or read book Calculating Human Resource Costs and Benefits written by Lyle M. Spencer and published by Wiley-Interscience. This book was released on 1986 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to applying 'hard' dollar costs and benefits to 'soft' human resource projects and programs. The book shows how to prove the effectiveness of your program, and demonstrates how to find the cost of any human resource or staff function, and includes worksheets to calculate costs and benefits in a wide range of profit and non-profit organizations: industry, government, military and health care. Case histories are supplied, along with an appendix containing computer programs for record-keeping and calculations.
Download or read book Cost Benefit Analysis for Development written by Asian Development Bank and published by Asian Development Bank. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has been continuously undertaking measures to enhance the effectiveness of its operations. To improve projects both at the preparation and implementation stages, ADB issued the Guidelines for Economic Analysis of Projects in 1997 as a means to enhancing project quality at entry. The conduct of proper economic analysis helps ensure the efficient use of development funds and public resources and thereby increase aid effectiveness. This practical guide is a supplement to the Guidelines for the Economic Analysis of Projects. It provides an overview of recent methodological developments in cost-benefit analysis as well as suggested improvements in the economic analysis of projects in selected sectors through case studies. These case studies illustrate the application of suggested methodologies, taking into account sector-specific needs, as well as difficulties faced by practitioners in terms of data and time constraints during project processing. It also aims to contribute to ADB’s capacity building initiatives as this will be the main reference material for conduct of economic analysis.
Download or read book PMP Project Management Professional Exam Review Guide written by Kim Heldman and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-03-18 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: strong style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px;"strong style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px;"NOTE: The exam this book covered, PMP Project Management Professional Exam, was retired by PMI in 2018 and is no longer offered. For coverage of the current exam PMP Project Management Professional, please look for the latest edition of this guide: PMP Project Management Professional Exam Review Guide, Fourth Edition (9781119421047). strong style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px;"strong style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px;" strong style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px;" Prepare for all five PMP domains, covering the 2015 updates PMP Project Management Professional Exam Review Guide, 3rd Edition provides review of all five domains, updated for the 2015 exam, and reinforcement of key topics. The ideal companion to the PMP Project Management Professional Exam Study Guide, 8th Edition and PMP Project Management Professional Exam Deluxe Study Guide, 2nd Edition, this concise and focused guide can be used with any study tool, and is organized for easy navigation and quick reference. This latest edition has been fully updated to reflect the Project Management Institute's most recent changes to the exam, including new developments in best practices. Coverage includes important points you need to know about initiating, planning, executing, monitoring, controlling, and closing the project, so you can feel confident going into the exam. The Sybex interactive online learning environment provides additional preparation tools, including chapter tests, two bonus practice exams, electronic flashcards, and a searchable PDF glossary of key terms. Project Management is an in-demand skill in the IT marketplace, and a PMP certification can help bring your resume to the top of the stack. Review the material for all five exam domains Get a feel for the latest version of the exam Test your knowledge with interactive study aids Identify and remediate areas in need of review The defined skillset a certification signifies is an invaluable asset to any professional in today's competitive job market, and the PMP certification is the industry leader. If you're ready to get serious about preparing for the PMP exam, the PMP Project Management Professional Exam Review Guide, 3rd Edition is your solution. strong style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px;"strong style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px;"strong style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px;"
Download or read book Master of Science in Project Management City of London College of Economics 10 months 100 online self paced written by City of London College of Economics and published by City of London College of Economics. This book was released on with total page 2627 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Overview A MScPM (or Master of Science in Project Management) is a degree that will prepare you for a role as (Senior) Project Manager/Director Project Management. Content - Building the action plan: scheduling, estimating and resource allocation - Achieving stakeholder satisfaction through project control - Project risk management - A model for building teamwork - New project development processes - Enterprise project management - Quick tips - Speedy solutions - Cutting-edge ideas - Making good decisions - Ideas and what to do with them - Leadership and trust - What to do when things go wrong - Over 120 new exercises to practice what you’ve learnt Duration 10 months Assessment The assessment will take place on the basis of one assignment at the end of the course. Tell us when you feel ready to take the exam and we’ll send you the assignment questions. Study material The study material will be provided in separate files by email / download link.
