Tool Navigator: The Master Guide for Teams [Hardcover]

Walter J. Michalski (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1997

The largest compendium of facilitation and problem-solving tools is now available on CD-ROM!

If you're chopping wood, you need an ax, not a hammer and it is just as important to have at your fingertips the appropriate process tool. Tool Navigator is more than a name, it's a fact. We don't just give you a definition of the tool, but we help you through its use as well. Complete cross-reference linkage from the table of contents and index to individual pages makes it easy for you to find what you need. Just point, click, and you're there.

All The Great Features Of The Original Tool Navigator Remain:
-- Classifies each tool by application
-- Describes various applications
-- Shows you most applicable problem-solving phases
-- Ranks category or work discipline in which the tool is actively used
-- Provides examples of results of each tool

Included with the Tool Navigator you will get the Tools for Teams poster and the Major Tools and Processes for Teams poster.

This fabulous product is still available at the low, low price of $150.00. We're not raising the price a dime!

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

Master Guide for Tools Includes: 222 tools with over 400 tables, illustrations, diagrams and graphs; "Tools for Teams" poster which shows the 222 tools with selection guide; "Major Tools and Processes for Teams" poster which explains the TQM/team ethic and the factors of organizational change; Cross reference index; Extensive bibliography; Statistical tables.

About the Author

Walter Michalski is president of Alpha Research Group, Huntington Beach, CA, a TQM consulting firm. His work experience reflects 28 years in quality assurance, test/process engineering, and process improvement training. He has designed problem solving workshops and facilitated teams on process reengineering, continuous improvement, measurements, organizational change, and critical thinking. He holds and Ed.D. in Institutional Management from Pepperdine University.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 675 pages
• Publisher: Productivity Pr; Lslf edition (November 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1563271788
• ISBN-13: 978-1563271786
• Product Dimensions: 10.5 x 10.2 x 3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,453,513 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1.0 out of 5 stars Mediocre Content for a Premium Price., March 9, 2010

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Spiritchaser (Sunbury on Thames, UK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tool Navigator: The Master Guide for Teams (Hardcover)

First, the book is way over priced for the value it provides. If you are looking to gain good knowledge of Six Sigma tools, you are really better off with Michael L George's Six Sigma Pocket Toolbook, for less than quarter of the cost of this book. This book honestly provides mediocre content for a premium price.

Secondly, I think CRC Press (the publisher) in my view, should win the Razzies award of the Decade, providing the worst support amongst any publishers. There is no place to check errata (or submit Errata), get supporting materials and on top of that I got an acknowledgement for a query that I had about supporting materials, after three weeks, that the Editor is on vacation it would be additional two weeks to get a response.

I think Walter J. Michalski could be better off with a different publisher like Apress, O'Reilly etc, but unfortunately pricing himself out of the readership enmasse with the wrong publisher.

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Resource for anyone working with teams!, September 10, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Tool Navigator: The Master Guide for Teams (Hardcover)

This is an excellent resource for anyone working with teams and needing more resources. This covers statistical analysis, process mapping, process time reduction, brainstorming, information gathering processes. Very helpful!