The Healthcare Innovator's Workbook: Making Lean Design in Healthcare Happen

This book gives the reader an inside look at creating a new healthcare service using practical examples and scenarios one would face if doing it themselves. This workbook is a follow-up to the recently published, Lean Design in Healthcare and offers a tactical version of the principles provided in the book. It parses the dialogue out into detailed reasons for the Lean Design in Healthcare's position and principles. This workbook contains examples and many exercises for the reader to complete to begin their own innovation journey. Lean Design in Healthcare chronicles the journey of a fictitious healthcare delivery organization using the Simpler Design System principles based on Lean methodologies. While the characters and actual story is fictitious, it is based on the journey many healthcare systems and clients have taken, the issues they have faced, and the successes and failures they've had. This workbook takes the initial story further and includes leadership quotes and best practices to support the dialogue introduced in the first book. Exercises will be custom designed to match the story flow and provides practical information that readers can immediately apply in their work. Each chapter will start with an introduction and contain 10 exercises per chapter. Tools include those gleaned from actual application of Lean Product Development, Agile, Design for Six Sigma, and Design Thinking Principles.

Business & Money

Ward, Adam

Industries

Productivity Press

This book gives the reader an inside look at creating a new healthcare service using practical examples and scenarios one would face if doing it themselves. This workbook is a follow-up to the recently published, Lean Design in Healthcare and offers a tactical version of the principles provided in the book. It parses the dialogue out into detailed reasons for the Lean Design in Healthcare’s position and principles. This workbook contains examples and many exercises for the reader to complete to begin their own innovation journey. 
Lean Design in Healthcare chronicles the journey of a fictitious healthcare delivery organization using the Simpler Design System principles based on Lean methodologies. While the characters and actual story is fictitious, it is based on the journey many healthcare systems and clients have taken, the issues they have faced, and the successes and failures they’ve had. This workbook takes the initial story further and includes leadership quotes and best practices to support the dialogue introduced in the first book. Exercises will be custom designed to match the story flow and provides practical information that readers can immediately apply in their work. Each chapter will start with an introduction and contain 10 exercises per chapter. Tools include those gleaned from actual application of Lean Product Development, Agile, Design for Six Sigma, and Design Thinking Principles.

Join the "Bob Ross of LEGO" in constructing cool creations with this how-to guide that brings legendary builds to life! Looking for something a little more exciting than your average LEGO® guide? You're in luck! Not only does this spectacular book offer step-by-step instructions for fun builds and crafts, it also includes intriguing trivia, micro challenges, and advice to boost your creative confidence. You'll also learn all about the author, Adam Ward, a professional artist who hosts the popular YouTube series Brick x Brick--and who wants you to become the best builder you can be. With a difficulty rating provided for each build, this is the perfect pick for LEGO® lovers of every skill-level. Get ready to make a masterpiece!

Brick x Brick: How to Build Amazing Things with 100-ish Bricks or Fewer

Children's Books

Arts, Music & Photography

Penguin Workshop

Beat boredom, boost brainpower, and bring fun to family festivities with 50 exciting and entertaining card games perfect for kids. Everything is included here, from simple card recognition games for the very young to fiendishly competitive ones for preteens and teens. Need to amuse a child on a trip or alone on a rainy afternoon? Try Accordion, Beat the Clock, or Klondike. Want to get the party hopping? Chase the Ace, Funny Farm, and Spoons will do the trick. And youngsters will love prize-winning games that feature betting with sweets or pebbles. An introductory section covers card-playing basics, the educational value of cards, facts about numbers and sequence, advice on strategy and tactics, ideas for encouraging lateral thinking, and more.

Card Games for Kids: 50 Fun Games for Your Children

Activities, Crafts & Games

Hamlyn

Party animals: this is the essential guide to spicing up any gathering. From confessional games to physical trickery to boisterous boozing competitions, these pages offer 100 ways to get guests into the swing of things and start the party rocking. Break the ice with Pass the Balloon, which will literally bring everyone together right from the beginning. Celebrating at the bar? Break out the bottle and play the Austin Powers drinking game. It’s time for true confessions with “I Have Never...,” when all the participants admit their vices, misdemeanors, and indiscretions. (No details or name-giving required!) Go wild and have a shaving-foam shoot-out. Boxes for every game explain which type of party it will work for, and what props you'll need.

Party Games: 100 Fun, Flirtatious and Boozy Games

Humor & Entertainment

Puzzles & Games

Filled with full-color action photos and instructive diagrams, Junior Soccer is designed specifically as a guide to help instructors teach the game to boys and girls. From goal-keeping practices to team tactics, the authors cover every aspect of the game, emphasizing teaching methods that work best for kids, ages 6 through 16. They focus on proper technique, beginning with warm-up routines, then showing and discussing positional practices and developing individual skills. Consecutive action photos show correct kicking techniques, including driving, chipping, volleying, juggling, and many other maneuvers. The authors also give advice on suitable equipment, offer tips on keeping junior players interested and motivated, and pass on suggestions to help kids develop coordination, speed, agility, and ball control. Parents, physical education teachers, and kids themselves will be fascinated by the instruction, advice, and handsome illustrations that fill this book.

Junior Soccer

Sports & Outdoors

Lewin, Trevor

Soccer

Barrons Educational Series. Inc.

There's nothing more special to a little girl than her best friends--they giggle together, whisper secrets in each other's ear, and now they have a book that's all about them. Each friend gets two pages all her own, to write her address, birthday, pets, favorite teacher and book, and lots more. There's even space for a photo. Every spread is decorated with pastel drawings of animal pals that will really appeal to kids. It will be a favorite at sleepovers, parties, play dates--any time friends get together to have a good time. 32 pages (all in color), 7 7/8 x 10 5/8.

My Best Friends (Balloon)

Balloon

What could be nicer than a beautiful pony nuzzling you, delicately taking a lump of sugar from your hand, and proudly trotting along with you secure in the saddle? If you love horses--and who doesn't?--here's a special book to share and compare with your friends! Just pass it around: everyone gets two pages and the chance to answer the same fun questions in her own special way. And throughout, fantastic photos of stallions and mares will make you ooh and ahh. Plus, there's room to paste in your own pictures, and to record your ages, birthdays, phone numbers, and lots more. Your whole crew will treasure this forever!

We Love Horses Friendship Book

Animals

Lean Design in Healthcare

This book gives the reader an inside look at creating a new healthcare service using practical examples and scenarios one would face if doing it themselves. This book chronicles the journey of a fictitious healthcare delivery organization using the Simpler Design System principles based on Lean methodologies. While the characters and actual story is fictitious, it is based on the journey many healthcare systems and clients have taken, the issues they have faced, and the successes and failures they’ve had.\nTools and approaches used are based on the actual work of Simpler. The story format engages readers and is intended to motivate and inspire executive teams to use the tenets of the book as a guide to launch their own successful implementation of an idea-to-launch methodology. Tools include those gleaned from actual application of Lean Product Development, Agile, Design for Six Sigma, and Design Thinking Principles.\nThrough engaging storytelling and practical theory, this book is written from the perspective of a physician leader that agrees to be the executive sponsor for a service redesign. As the story progresses, the sponsor becomes fascinated with the process and becomes the first VP of Innovation within his organization.

Economics

Productivity Pr

Soon after its founding in 2011, Noir Nation: International Crime Fiction became the globally recognized home of international crime fiction. With this issue, it will also be a home for noir poetry. Noir Nation's content is often dark, sometimes creepy, and sometimes humorous but always at the service of the literary imagination as it explores the darker regions of human experience, where the only crime is weak writing. In this issue: Fiction by Deborah Pintonelli, Nahary Hernandez, JJ Toner, Barbie Wilde, David James Keaton, Ava Black, Simon Rowe, D.V. Bennett, Frauke Schuster, Gerald Heys, and BV Lawson; Poetry by Bianca Bellová, Adam Ward, Juleigh Howard-Hobson, Bonny Finberg, and Shawn Stibbards; Nonfiction by Michael Gonzales; and a staff interview with police detective and writer George Beck; And the winners of the First Golden Fedora Poetry Prize: George Perreault, Michael Zimecki, Timothy Ryan, J.D. Smith, Craig Kenworthy, Frank De Blasé, James Gardner, Joe Cortinas, Barry Nathan, and Timothy Tarkelly.

Noir Nation No. 7: The Golden Fedora Poetry Prize Issue

Literature & Fiction

Keaton, David James

Toner, JJ

Wilde, Barbie

Pintonelli, Deborah

BELLOVÁ, Bianca

Vega, Eddie

Rowe, Simon

Black, Ava

Perreault, George

Poetry

Independently published

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