Industrial Management category: 1113 books
Network Enterprises
The Evolution of Organizational Models from Guilds to Assembly Lines to Innovation Clusters
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2009
Building on the historical analysis of organizations and theories that have influenced their development, Gianfranco Dioguardi provides an insightful exploration of the network enterprise and its evolution from the Medieval guilds to the present innovation clusters of Silicon Valley, the Research...
by Wallace R. Blischke, M. Rezaul Karim, D. N. Prabhakar Murthy
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2011
Warranty Data Collection and Analysis deals with warranty data collection and analysis and the problems associated with these activities. The book is a both a research monograph and a handbook for practitioners. As a research monograph, it unifies the literature on warranty data collection and analysis,...
by Lowell J. Puls
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Takt-ical Leadership is a story about a company that is failing its customers, and has come under siege to improve quickly in order to save their business. Each chapter has a “story” segment that establishes the business challenge and is followed with a “how to” style solution that will help...
Refining Familiar Constructs
Alternative Views in OB, HR, and I/O
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2007
This volume is based around 14 chapters and two critical analyses which provide new perspectives on important organizational constructs. The first half of the book provides chapters by advanced graduate students who are making their first contributions to understanding organizational behavior. The...
Product Variety in Automotive Industry
Understanding Niche Markets in America
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2013
This book is about the history of product variety in the US automotive industry from the black Ford-T to hot-rodders and easy-riders up to latest trends. It focuses on the dual structure of automotive industry in the United States: on one hand, relatively few and large companies producing cars...
Breaking Bad Habits
Why Best Practices Are Killing Your Business
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
Have you ever wondered why most newspapers are so large? Or why management consultants work such long hours? Or why hotels still insist on having check-in desks? Ask anyone in these industries, and their answer will be the same: "That's the way we've always done it."
"Best practices" may be...
Lean Management
Pour une performance solide et durable
Language: French
Release Date: June 21, 2017
Le Lean a pris une ampleur significative ces dernières années. Au départ, développé dans l'automobile, il est maintenant étendu à tous les secteurs industriels, ainsi qu'aux services. Si la méthode connaît un franc succès, elle peut également entraîner des effets négatifs ou conduire...
Shopfloor Management
Führen am Ort der Wertschöpfung
Language: German
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Termindruck, Meetings, administrative Tätigkeiten und lästiger E-Mail-Verkehr sind nur einige Gründe, weshalb viele Führungskräfte nicht dort sind, wo sie eigentlich sein sollten - am Ort der Wertschöpfung.
Um produzierende Unternehmen wettbewerbsfähig zu halten, darf Führung nicht...
Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition
How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
The global phenomenon that has sold 3.6 million copies, is published in a record-breaking 46 languages and is a bestseller across five continents—now updated and expanded with new content
In this perennial bestseller, embraced by organizations and industries worldwide, globally preeminent...
Fast Cycle Time
How to Align Purpose, Strategy, and Structure for
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Today, tens of thousands of companies are struggling to become "time-based" competitors, inspired by such corporations as Motorola, General Electric, Citicorp, and a myriad of others who have cut production time in half-or more. But until now, the literature has focused on the theory and...
by Tokutaro Suzuki
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Process industries have a particularly urgent need for collaborative equipment management systems, but until now have lacked for programs directed toward their specific needs. TPM in Process lndustries brings together top consultants from the Japan Institute of Plant Maintenance to modify the original...
Visual Workplace Visual Thinking
Creating Enterprise Excellence Through the Technologies of the Visual Workplace, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2017
Visual Workplace/Visual Thinking (VWVT) was written by the acknowledged leading expert in workplace visuality. While other books touch upon visual workplace tools and practices, no other author has addressed the topic with the clarity and depth presented here. This is a seminal book, considered by...
by Edward H. Frazelle
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016
The classic guide to warehouse operations—now fully revised and updated with the latest strategies, best practices, and case studies
Under the influence of e-commerce, supply chain collaboration, globalization, and quick response, warehouses today are being asked to do more with less. The...
Evoluzione del Distretto Industriale
L'industria alla sfida del ventunesimo secolo
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Si può ancora parlare di distretto industriale a distanza di oltre un secolo dalla sua nascita nell'Inghilterra della trasformazione della lana. Questo modello ha accompagnato lo sviluppo industriale nelle sue infinite ramificazioni ed è quanto mai attuale. La riscoperta delle eccellenze locali...