Focus and Leverage

<p>Most books about continuous and process improvement are written in a textbook format with straightforward information and plenty of graphs and charts to convey the points being made. Sometimes even the best step-by-step instructions can escape even the most adamant of followers for an improvement method in determining exactly how to apply what they’ve learned.<br><b></b>Taking a different approach <strong>F</strong><b>ocus and Leverage </b>is presented in an engaging business-novel format and is a sequel to the authors’ bestselling book <i>Epiphanized Second Edition</i>. The primary characters remain the same but this time the storyline features two different industries: Maintenance Repair and Overhaul (MRO) and Healthcare (hospital) environments.<br><br>This book expands and highlights the two improvement methods first introduced in the appendix section of <em>Epiphanized</em>: the Interference Diagram (ID)/Intermediate Objectives (IO) map (ID/IO Simplified Strategy) and Multiple-Drum-Buffer-Rope (M-DBR).<br><br>Both of these innovative methods are the result of some much-focused thinking that allows for multiple improvement methods and steps to be combined into a single thinking process tool. This groundbreaking new method is designed to save time and money and allows faster and better results to be achieved.<br><br>The two storylines move the reader through the necessary system analysis problem identification and solution implementation. The novel format aids in presenting several realistic situational discussions as well as a multitude of graphs and figures to explain the step-by-step process for success.<br><br>The storyline of this book weaves some well-known and some not-so-well-known thinking tools into the problem-solving sphere to provide you with an understanding of how to first discover and then overcome issues not readily known or expected at the start of any project.</p>