Industrial Management category: 1113 books
by George D. Robson
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
During the past decade Japanese companies have derived many of their competitive advantages from streamlined work-flow processes. Desperate to replicate the Japanese systems, American managers have bought into countless theories advanced by management consultants which, lacking a methodology, have...
Open Innovation
Researching a New Paradigm
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2008
Open Innovation describes an emergent model of innovation in which firms draw on research and development that may lie outside their own boundaries. In some cases, such as open source software, this research and development can take place in a non-proprietary manner. Henry Chesbrough and his collaborators...
Labor Markets and Multinational Enterprises in Puerto Rico
Foreign Direct Investment Influences and Sustainable Growth
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
This book expresses the reasons to embark on a production management system and begin a journey to a better social and economic life in Puerto Rico. Among the population of Puerto Rico there is a simultaneous presence of a high rate of unemployment and a well-educated workforce. How has this happened?...
by Torrence Smith
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
This book is about job shops. Inside is a combination of stories and practical tips from my experience. It’s not theory. This is how I lost money, made money, kept my job or got promoted. These are all the things I dug through the literature trying to find answers to. Job shops can be many different...
Validating Strategies
Linking Projects and Results to Uses and Benefits
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Organisations continue to struggle with their strategies; even when they have a strategy development process, their plans rarely have the impact that was intended. Too many of their people don't know about the strategy, don't understand it or can't translate it into what it means for their role. Validating...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
This book focuses on various issues of energy, energy efficiency and environmental policy in China. It discusses different aspects on how China may maintain its fast economic growth through good management of energy consumption and development of various energy sources.
The Internationalisation of Young High-Tech Firms
An Empirical Analysis in Germany and the United Kingdom
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
There is now a certain tradition of Anglo-German comparative research on new technology-based firms (NTBFs). Two of the most influential studies in this area have both been sponsored by the Anglo-German Foundation for the Study of In dustrial Society (AGF). Starting in 1977, the first AGF project...
by Ade Asefeso MCIPS MBA
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
Lean is designed to reduce the seven "deadly forms of waste": defects, overproduction, over processing, wasted motion, inventory (work in process), transport/handling and waiting. Addressing any or all of these can help operations run more efficiently and therefore, be more competitive which...
New Normal, Radical Shift
Changing Business and Politics for a Sustainable Future
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Our traditional ways of looking at economics, business and politics are not fit for purpose. The causes of the recent crisis were behavioural and international, but our measures are superficial and financial, recorded at a national or company level. This is combined with a fervent quest for endless...
Reinventing the Supply Chain Life Cycle
Strategies and Methods for Analysis and Decision Making
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Optimize supply chains throughout their entire lifecycle: creation, growth, maturity, and decline! Reflecting up-to-the-minute "in-the-trenches" experience and pioneering research, this book illuminates the complex transformational processes associated with managing complex supply chains that incorporate...
by T.V.S. Ramamohan Rao, Ranjul Rastogi
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Discretionary Managerial Behavior presents a quantification of the managerial behavior within decentralized organizations. The volume provides practical insights into the internal functioning of the firm, the relationships between the managers at different organizational echelons, and the conditioning...
The Visual Factory
Building Participation Through Shared Information
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
If you're aware of the tremendous improvements achieved in productivity and quality as a result of employee involvement, then you'll appreciate the great value of creating a visual factory. This book explains why conventional work areas, where fragmented information flows from ""top to bottom,""...
The Crisis in Telecommunications Carrier Liability
Historical Regulatory Flaws and Recommended Reform
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
My curiosity with the economic efficiency and social benefits of provisions used by telecommunications carriers to limit their liability to customers for damages arising from service interruptions and network outages is a longstanding one. It began with the changing state regulatory environments in...
Competitiveness Creation and Maintenance in the Postal Services Industry
A Lithuanian Case Study
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
This book examines the changing business and economic environment for postal services in Lithuania and the upcoming challenges for this industry. Postal services continue to play a central part in the development of national economies. However, the economic and social role of postal services has changed...