Production Operations Management category: 1955 books
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Scheduling is a broad research area and scheduling problems arise from several application domains (production systems, logistic, computer science, etc.). Solving scheduling problems requires tools of combinatorial optimization, exact or approximated algorithms. Flexibility is at the frontier between...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2016
This book grows from a conference on the state of the art and recent advances in Efficiency and Productivity. Papers were commissioned from leading researchers in the field, and include eight explorations into the analytical foundations of efficiency and productivity analysis. Chapters on modeling...
by Paul J. Rowean
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
Seventy percent of all new products introduced in the USA fail and are taken off the market within three years. And these failures come from large companies, many of which are Fortune 500 and advertise with Super Bowl TV commercials. There are a number of reasons these products fail, but perhaps...
by Richard Chamberlain
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
When hospitals began implementing their electronic medical records/electronic health records systems (EMR/HER) the pharmaceutical companies that were conducting clinical trials at those hospitals wanted to sue the date from those systems instead of having the hospitals enter the data in their EHR...
A Complexity Approach to Sustainability
Theory and Application
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
Business sustainability and sustainable development are of great importance in modern-day socio-economic study. Despite this, the impact of recent contributions from systems and complexity sciences in addressing these issues has not yet filtered down into effective practice. This book argues that...
Developmental Universities in Inclusive Innovation Systems
Alternatives for Knowledge Democratization in the Global South
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
This book analyzes the current trends in the production, dissemination, and use of knowledge which contribute to social inequalities, especially in the Global South. The aim of the text is to explore the possibilities of active involvement by universities in the democratization of knowledge - a process...
Digital Wine
How QR Codes Facilitate New Markets for Small Wine Industries
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
This book explores the way in which QR codes (Quick Response codes) can help the wine industry facilitate distribution and more effectively market and sell their product. It examines the interventions, invention and opportunities brought about by QR codes for the wine industry. It also investigates...
by Bongs Lainjo
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
In Monitoring and Evaluation, most manuals currently available emphasize either M and E or Evaluation. Here is a primer with a significant difference. If you are already an expert or still a neophyte with a strong urge to improve your skills including those who have always...
by Cornelia Andree
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject Business economics - Supply, Production, Logistics, grade: 1,0, The University of Hong Kong, language: English, abstract: With the foundation of the European Economic Community in 1957, which later became the European Union (EU), all member states agreed...
Evaluation of Supply Chain Performance
A Manufacturing Industry Approach
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
This book provides some regional aspects considered by manufacturing firms in their decisions to gain competitiveness and have effects on the performance of their supply chains (SC). Some of the main aspects considered are: government's policies, fixed costs, the availability and quality of infrastructure...
Configuration Management for Senior Managers
Essential Product Configuration and Lifecycle Management for Manufacturing
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
Configuration Management for Senior Managers is written to help managers in product manufacturing and engineering environments identify the ways in which they can streamline their products and processes through proactive documentation control and product lifecycle management.
Experienced consultant...
Information and Communication Technology in Sudan
An Economic Analysis of Impact and Use in Universities
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
This book discusses the use, economic importance and impact of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in public and private Sudanese universities. The author provides an in-depth analysis of the economic impact of ICT from the demand perspective as well as from the public-private...
The Global Quality Management System
Improvement Through Systems Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
The Global Quality Management System: Improvement Through Systems Thinking shows you how to understand and implement a global quality management system (GQMS) to achieve world-class business excellence. It illustrates the business excellence pyramid with the foundation of management systems at the...
Revolution of Innovation Management
Volume 1 The Digital Breakthrough
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
This edited collection explores how digitalization is changing the management of innovation, and the subsequent implications for the next phases in its development. The authors identify and examine relevant phenomena which are related to the ongoing digital breakthrough in the context of innovation...