High Performance Operations: Leverage Compliance to Lower Costs, Increase Profits, and Gain Competitive Advantage (FT Press Operations Management)

This is the eBook version of the printed book.

Companies in highly regulated industries face unique challenges in optimizing business performance and profitability while maintaining strong governance and regulatory adherence. In this start-to-finish guidebook, leading business performance consultant Hillel Glazer shows how to achieve these goals through the successful integration of lean and systems thinking. Written for operations managers, process professionals, and lean systems managers, Glazer shows how to systematically incorporate compliance into planning for overall performance, value, and profitability, rather than viewing compliance as an end in itself. High Performance Operations will help operations professionals and managers:

• Clarify the competing interests that challenge them, and implement pre-conditions for success.
• Learn how a systems-thinking approach can promote achieve operational excellence.
• Uncover the "secret sauce" that enables great organizations to scale their successes, eliminate single points of failure, and get more of "what went right".
• Define what value and operational excellence look like in their organizations, and all the costs of achieving them.
• Create solutions, establish proof-of-performance, justify investments, measure performance, and implement continuous improvement.
• Translate solutions into working policies, patterns, processes, and procedures.