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Summary: process mapping
Review: a good book although I was looking for a book to help me broader my knowledge of quality. im looking for something perhaps with more details about lot sampling, SPC even six-sigma...still overall a good book for those of you in the begining stages of quality process mapping.
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Summary: Excellent
Review: Easy language, nice examples, easy explanations, lots of references about other authors and books related
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Summary: Excellent Starter for Process Mapping
Review: I recently bopught this book and found that it was clearly written and gave me an excellent overview of Process Mapping. The author did my homework by bringing together under one cover the basics on process mapping.I found the section on how to collect process information and the software reviews were excellent. I can imagine some vendors did not like their reviews!
Excellent first book on Process Mapping.
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Summary: Excellent Starter for Process Mapping
Review: I recently bopught this book and found that it was clearly written and gave me an excellent overview of Process Mapping. The author did my homework by bringing together under one cover the basics on process mapping. I found the section on how to collect process information and the software reviews were excellent. I can imagine some vendors did not like their reviews!
Excellent first book on Process Mapping.
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Summary: Excellent reference to IDEF and Process Mapping Theory
Review: If you ever had difficulty explaining what you do then this book in for you. Explaining daily operations internally within an organization is one thing, but trying to externally explain is were most managers hit the anxiety wall head-on. This book clearly defines the rational of utilizing the Intergrated Definition for Function Modeling (IDEFO). Process mapping utilizing a standard ensures common language understanding internally as well as externally. The ability for managers to explain what they do to all stakeholders is the foundation and vital key to true 360 degree process improvement.
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Summary: When Cut and Paste Goes Wrong...
Review: Mostly, I'm going to second another reviewer's comments on this book. This is a very introductory level text, with not much "meat" to it. I will go one further, though. I agree that Mr. Hunt stays pretty basic most of the time, while in other parts he goes deeper without telling us (the reader) what exactly his terminology means beforehand. Somehow we make the transition from extremely basic mapping to filling out Process Mapping Forms in detail without much in between these two stages. Another criticism I have for the book "Process Mapping" is the overuse of cut and paste. Okay, I understand that word processors make this whole cut & paste thing very easy, but when you find yourself reading the same sentences verbatim a page later; we have gone to far. This is not only in the product reviews, but in the text as well. I can only take so much of that. On the plus side, this book gets to the point quickly. Secondly, it does talk about the advantages and disadvantages of using some software packages (e.g. Visio) for your process mapping initiative. Probably too many case studies for my liking, but they do show you have other companies have had successes with each package. So, in summary, you could use excerpts from this book to explain the very basics of process mapping to a coworker or your boss, but I would not try to actually attempt the art of mapping out a process without picking up a better laid-out, more comprehensive book on the subject.
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Summary: When Cut and Paste Goes Wrong...
Review: Mostly, I'm going to second another reviewer's comments on this book. This is a very introductory level text, with not much "meat" to it. I will go one further, though. I agree that Mr. Hunt stays pretty basic most of the time, while in other parts he goes deeper without telling us (the reader) what exactly his terminology means beforehand. Somehow we make the transition from extremely basic mapping to filling out Process Mapping Forms in detail without much in between these two stages. Another criticism I have for the book "Process Mapping" is the overuse of cut and paste. Okay, I understand that word processors make this whole cut & paste thing very easy, but when you find yourself reading the same sentences verbatim a page later; we have gone to far. This is not only in the product reviews, but in the text as well. I can only take so much of that. On the plus side, this book gets to the point quickly. Secondly, it does talk about the advantages and disadvantages of using some software packages (e.g. Visio) for your process mapping initiative. Probably too many case studies for my liking, but they do show you have other companies have had successes with each package. So, in summary, you could use excerpts from this book to explain the very basics of process mapping to a coworker or your boss, but I would not try to actually attempt the art of mapping out a process without picking up a better laid-out, more comprehensive book on the subject.
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Summary: Not Worth It
Review: Not a lot of original research here. The author seems to "borrow" an awful lot from public domain documents about IDEF. Several of the case studies in Chapter 5 are lifted verbatim from MetaSoftware's marketing literature. Lots of disparate chapters, no unifying theme. This is going to be the first book I've ever bought from Amazon that I will be returning. Definetely not recommended.
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Summary: Lacks substance
Review: The book contains very little practical information and spends more chapters selling the reader on the concept of process mapping than it does on the concept itself.
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Summary: Pre School
Review: There is nothing in this book that and educated practioner or someone who's on the path to becoming one would find of value. The name of the book is a misnomer, most chapters dealt with motherhood concepts around BPR, very little time and effort was devoted to the actual Business Process Mapping practices. All in all a disappointing book leaving a void in a subject much in need of guidance.
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