In factories around the world, Toyota consistently makes the highest-quality cars with the fewest defects of any competing manufacturer, while using fewer man-hours, less on-hand inventory, and half the floor space of its competitors. The Toyota Way is the first book for a general audience that explains the management principles and business philosophy behind Toyota's worldwide reputation for quality and reliability.

Complete with profiles of organizations that have successfully adopted Toyota's principles, this book shows managers in every industry how to improve business processes by:

• Eliminating wasted time and resources
  
• Building quality into workplace systems
  
• Finding low-cost but reliable alternatives to expensive new technology
  
• Producing in small quantities Turning every employee into a qualitycontrol inspector .
  

The land of emperors and dynasties holds the promise of untapped prosperity with its vast and low-cost labor pool, rising disposable income and recent accession into the World Trade Organization. But many Western executives simply run up against a Great Wall when they try to do business in China. Things are not always as they appear in the world’s seventh largest economy and the contacts with whom you are dealing may not be in a position to open the right doors for your business or company.

QSU Publishing, through a special arrangement with Inspire Publishing, is pleased to introduce Who’s Who in China, the single best resource you will ever find on how to really succeed in this ancient land of 1.3 billion for only $99.95.

Consider that executives surveyed by A.T. Kearney report higher investor confidence levels in China across a broad range of sectors, from manufacturing to services. Moreover, the United States does over $120 billion of trade with China, with the volume increasing at more than 15 percent every year. Western businesses are looking to enter this lucrative market, but many will fail. Do you know how to unlock one of the world’s fastest growing new markets for your business?

Who’s Who in China reveals the top seven secrets of success gleaned from the country’s top 100 richest entrepreneurs and largest corporations:

Who’s Who in China Features:

• An in-depth analysis of the leaders of China state parties and the CPC leadership, including the most important political people in China.
  
• Introduction of China’s top 100 largest companies and the story of their CEOs.
  
• Analysis and life stories of China’s top 100 richest people.
  
• Other influential people in Chinese business and economic circles.
  
• Corporate structures of more than 100 enterprises in China.
  

What Experts are Saying About Who’s Who in China

“Whether you are a potential partner, a competitor, or just an interested observer, it pays to know who you are dealing with in China.”

-- Hsieh Tsun-yan, Director and Chairman of Asia, McKinsey & Co.

“It is a must-read for the generalist but also a precise examination for business people who need to understand who are the top players across almost all major industries in China. Governments, academics, and business people will devour the facts revealed by this book. I have."

-- Yang Hai Qing, Head of Publishing, CCPIT

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Six Sigma has become widely recognized as the most effective tool available to improve business performance and profitability. While numerous other resources cover basic Six Sigma implementation, Six Sigma Business Scorecard is the first to explore the most critical element of its improvement methodology: performance measurements.

Without a strong grasp of performance metrics, a company can have no clear, quantitative indication of its quality improvement. Six Sigma Business Scorecard offers a unique approach to measuring performance. Readers will learn how to track their improvements in quality and profitability -- and make critical adjustments if such improvements are not up to expectations -- while implementing Six Sigma.

Written by a longstanding practitioner and a pioneer of Six Sigma methodology, this much-needed guidebook delivers a comprehensive performance measurement strategy allowing you to reap -- and quantify -- the many advantages of Six Sigma. You'll benefit from:

• Key performance metrics for companies already using Six Sigma, to determine their sigma level
  
• A well-defined measurement system, that builds on the "Balanced Scorecard," for use throughout a corporation
  
• Business Performance Index (BPIn), specifically designed for CEOs, monitor corporate wellness with ease
  
• A methodology for effective implementation at all levels in a corporation
  

No matter if your company is involved with Six Sigma -- or if you want to realize its advantages for the first time -- Six Sigma Business Scorecard will show you how to implement a successful and a measurable Six Sigma program.

Lean Six Sigma combines the two most important improvement trends of our time: making work better (using Six Sigma) and making work faster (using Lean principles). In this plain-English guide, you'll discover how this remarkable quality improvement method can give you the tools to identify and eliminate waste and quality problems in your own work area.

Packed with diagrams, cartoons, and real-life examples, What is Lean Six Sigma? reveals the four keys of Lean Six Sigma and how they apply to your own job:

• Delight your customers with speed and quality
  
• Improve your processes
  
• Work together for maximum gain
  
• Base decisions on data and facts
  

You'll see the big picture of what your company hopes to gain with Lean Six Sigma, how it may affect your work area, and what it can mean to you personally. .

Today's smartest employees know that, to keep themselves from the'firing' line, they must constantly increase their value to their employers, customers, and clients. Customize Your Career presents readers with a twostep process for becoming an indispensable employee, by first defining one's personal mission and then using that mission as a blueprint to develop a professional success strategy.

High-profile career builder Roz Usheroff has made her name by showing business professionals how to discover and develop their own intellectual property, even in uncertain and insecure economic climates. Here, she provides solid, workplace-proven strategies designed to help anyone:

• Enhance interpersonal and communication skills
• Become recognized as a leader and change-agent
• Master the finer points of business protocol
  

Would you like to be leader of an organization that can become a master at dealing with the climate of continual, unpredictable change that is affecting today’s business environment? Do you want to face unrelenting competition with supreme confidence? Do you demand ongoing improvements in the product development time cycle? Insist upon continuing reductions in production delays, cost overruns, and defects?

Juran Institute’s Six Sigma: Breakthrough and Beyond provides the tools to achieve these results, not only now but throughout the years ahead. This book presents the Juran Institute’s own plan for sustaining improvement across the organization, to ensure that your most recent attempts to achieve breakthrough have ended and certification has been gained.

The first Six Sigma book to incorporate the full philosophy and methodology of the Juran Institute, Juran Institute’s Six Sigma includes performance-improving applications based on the Juran Trilogy of Planning Processes, Control Processes, and, and systematically achieving Breakthrough Processes.

Practical and bottom-line conscious, these Juran methods and strategies are enhanced by real world studies from Juran business clients. Juran Institute’s Six Sigma can become your handbook for change and a friend for business survival and renewal. It can provide:

• Solutions to frequently seen chronic cultural problems that cross multiple functions in an organization
  
• Examples of common bottlenecks and how to remove them
  
• Improvement, implementation, and strategies for all levels of management
  

The Juran Institute has helped companies around the globe successfully reshape their management processes. With this book, they can help you achieve the same sustainable bottom line results. .