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Operational Excellence, Supply Chain & Agile Essentials: Learn Lean, Operations, Logistics, Scrum & Leadership – Set of 3 Books
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Build stronger operations, smarter supply chains, and more adaptable teams with this comprehensive three-book collection designed for professionals, managers, and students.
Book 1: Operational Excellence Essentials You Always Wanted to Know
- Lean Management, PDCA, Kaizen, and continuous improvement
- Process optimization, SOPs, and KPI integration
- Leadership, culture transformation, and employee engagement
- Connecting quality, time, cost, and financial performance
This guide presents Operational Excellence as an integrated system that aligns strategy, people, and processes to deliver sustainable results.
Book 2: Operations and Supply Chain Management Essentials You Always Wanted to Know
- Core concepts of operations and supply chain management
- Procurement, logistics, and warehouse management
- Functional decision-making across the value chain
- Managing disruptions and adapting to changing demand
Understand how supply chains function and how operations decisions impact business performance.
Book 3: Agile Essentials You Always Wanted To Know
- Agile Manifesto principles and Scrum framework
- Agile planning, execution, and project tracking
- Roles, artifacts, and team practices
- Applying Agile in development and operations
Together, this set provides practical frameworks to improve efficiency, responsiveness, and project outcomes across modern organizations.
Pages: 630 pages
Paperback (ISBN): 9781636516097
Category: Business & Economics
Author: Kalpesh Ashar, Ashley McDonough, Mike Hammann, Vibrant Publishers
Click on individual book titles below to view their complete Table of Contents.
Agile Essentials You Always Wanted To Know
Operations and Supply Chain Management Essentials You Always Wanted To Know
Kalpesh Ashar is a management consultant and corporate trainer. He holds an MBA from SPJIMR, an Engineering degree, and Agile certifications including CSM (Certified Scrum Master), PMI-ACP (PMI-Agile Certified Practitioner), and SFPC – Scrum Foundations Professional Certificate. Mr. Ashar has over 21 years of experience in large organizations and start-ups in Asia, USA, and Europe. His background provides a platform from which to write in a way to help people with diverse backgrounds understand business topics.
Ashley McDonough is a Supply Chain and Finance professional who holds an M.B.A from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, one of the top M.B.A. programs in the world. She also holds a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Minnesota, with an emphasis in Supply Chain, Operations Management, and Economics.
Mike Hammann has 20+ years of Operational Excellence experience, leading 100+ improvement projects in process optimization helping organizations build real, measurable impact.
Vibrant Publishers is focused on presenting the best texts for learning about technology and business as well as books for test preparation. Categories include programming, operating systems and other texts focused on IT. In addition, a series of books helps professionals in their own disciplines learn the business skills needed in their professional growth.
Vibrant Publishers has a standardized test preparation series covering the GMAT, GRE and SAT, providing ample study and practice material in a simple and well organized format, helping students get closer to their dream universities.
The Self-Learning Management Series is designed to help students, new managers, career switchers, and entrepreneurs learn essential management lessons and covers every aspect of business, from HR to Finance to Marketing to Operations across any and every industry. Each book includes basic fundamentals, important concepts, and standard and well-known principles as well as practical ways of application of the subject matter.
This book does a great job connecting Lean, quality, and PDCA in a practical way. It reinforces how continuous improvement works best when both leaders and teams are actively involved.
-- Tionna Vinson
Operations Manager
A must-read for aspiring COO’s or COS’s! This is an essential read for folks who want to learn all things ops. This is a rare ops book that actually explains the relevant complex systems and frameworks one must master in order to be successful in the field. Finally! A textbook with all the relevant ops topics in one place.
-- Jody Taylor
Founder & CEO RUN-OPS, Business Operations Specialist
An excellent introduction to Agile for the newcomer and an excellent review for the experienced practitioner.
-- Jose Solera, PMP, CSM, CSPO, CSP and Agile practitioner since the 1990s Short: Jose Solera, PMP, CSM, CSPO, CSP and Agile practitioner
Effectively outlines the key concepts that all Agile project leader, Scrum Master or Product Owner must know and master.
-- Tim Mills, MBA, MS, CPL, ITIL, SS-GB, CSM, PMP Lead Instructor, Agile Project Management Harvard Extension School Harvard University, Cambridge, MA USA Short: Tim Mills, PMP Lead Instructor, Harvard Extension School
This delivers pretty much exactly what it promises. After reading this book I think I have a pretty clear, high level, understanding of what Agile can do, how it works, and what it looks like from the inside and the outside. Highly recommended for anyone involved in a software development organization who is wondering whether Agile is something they should be considering adopting.
-- Foretopman
Librarything User
I am really enjoying Agile Essentials by Kalpesh Ashar as a supplement text in my Introduction to Project Management course. My students find the information easy to apply and compliment traditional project management concepts.
-- Paul W. Harp
FedEx Freight
Manager- Facility Design Solution & Projects
There is wonderful continuity told in plain language while bringing us through an example from the first phase through logistics.
-- Readers' Favorite
It is excellent in its use of examples
-- Wendy L. Tate, Co-Editor in Chief, Journal of Purchase and Supply Management
User-friendly and not too technical McDonough succeeds in making operations, supply chain management and logistics quite understandable to a non technical audience, without losing the OSCM technical soul.
-- Andrea Patrucco, The Pennsylvania State University
Great OSCM primer
-- David A. Marshall, Eastern Michigan University
A good balance of theory and practicality
-- Henry C. Alphin Jr., Higher Education Administrator, Researcher, and Economic Development Professional
I went into the book knowing very little about Operations and Supply Chain Management and was pleasantly surprised. It was written in a clear and concise way that allowed me to understand individual concepts and the big picture. I appreciated the example that was carried through the book, as it made the explanations easy to visualize and follow. I can definitely recommend it for beginners to that specific branch, but have some business knowledge.
-- dsoberanis
Librarything User
We are still using the "Operations and Supply Chain Management" by Ashley McDonough for our AVS 2400 course. It is a great introductory text!
-- Willem J Homan
Professor
Department of Aviation Sciences
College of Aviation
Western Michigan University
If you ignored the concepts of material and resource planning as the most abstruse and unflinching, now you can easily say ‘yes’ to learning the most crucial concepts in this domain by reading them from cover to cover. This book can clear all the confounding models of procurement.
-- Ms. Jyoti Kukreja
Assistant Professor,
Jagannath International Management School,
Kalkaji, New Delhi
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Mike Hammann's treatment of change management in Operational Excellence Essentials - specifically his argument that continuous improvement requires continuous change management as a structural prerequisite, not an optional add-on - saved our quality improvement program from a failure I could see coming. We had launched an improvement initiative without adequately preparing the team for the changes it would require. Reading the change management chapter mid-implementation gave me the diagnostic framework to identify what we had missed and the practical guidance to course-correct. The three-book combo gave me operational depth in SCM and Agile methodology on top of this critical change management insight.
I manage a regional distribution center and have always operated with strong tactical capability but limited strategic framework. Ashley McDonough's Operations and Supply Chain Management Essentials gave me the strategic supply chain view that puts my distribution function in proper business context. Understanding how distribution center decisions affect upstream procurement and downstream customer service - and how to make those tradeoffs explicitly rather than intuitively - elevated every management decision I make. Mike Hammann's OpEx Essentials then gave me the improvement culture framework to address the warehouse process gaps that the SCM book helped me identify more precisely.
One of the most practically useful sections in Mike Hammann's Operational Excellence Essentials is the treatment of visual management and standardization as the foundation of sustainable improvement. His specific guidance on creating visual performance boards, posting standard work at the point of use, and updating standards as improvements are made gave our team an implementation roadmap that we followed directly. Within six weeks of reading this section we had functioning visual management systems across three production areas. The SCM Essentials by Ashley McDonough reinforced this thinking with supply chain-specific visual tools. The Agile Essentials by Kalpesh Ashar extended it to digital visual management for remote and hybrid teams.
In most organizations, operational excellence, supply chain management, and Agile project delivery are managed as separate domains with separate teams, separate training, and separate language. This 3-book combo implicitly argues - and explicitly demonstrates - that these three disciplines are most powerful when integrated. CI thinking from OpEx Essentials is most effective when applied to supply chain processes identified in SCM Essentials. Supply chain improvement initiatives are most successful when managed using the Agile methodology from Agile Essentials. And Agile delivery is most impactful when grounded in the operational excellence culture that Mike Hammann describes. The integration is the combo's defining contribution.
I coach senior operations leaders and have been looking for a single resource set that addresses the full profile of capabilities these leaders need. This 3-book combo comes closer than anything I have previously found. Mike Hammann's OpEx Essentials addresses strategic orientation, cultural leadership, and the behavioral requirements of continuous improvement sponsorship. Ashley McDonough's SCM Essentials addresses the supply chain systems knowledge that operations leaders need to make sound functional decisions. Kalpesh Ashar's Agile Essentials addresses the adaptive leadership mindset that modern improvement environments require. Three books, one complete operational leadership curriculum.
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