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Harvard Business Review Articles on Operations Management

In five pages this paper assesses 6 articles on operations management featured in the Harvard Business Review with an executive su...

Introduction to Operations Management Approaches

used is JIT. The Just-in-Time (JIT) philosophy that emerged in the 1970s has been shown to be an effective strategy to minimize ...

Wilkerson, Inc. Operations Management

(2002) reports on another company that faces the same kinds of problems as Wilkerson, where the sales function also has led the co...

BMW's Leadership

from in decision making appearing to take on the guise of institutionalised stake holding. First indication of this co-ope...

New Systems Development and a Literature Review of Operations Management

costs of another part of the supply chain (Mintzberg et al, 1998). In this there is a guideline to the areas where efficiency may ...

eBusiness Military Applications

would expect from the private sector. As all of DSCRs direct material suppliers operate in the private sector, DSCR also must mai...

Week 3 Discussion Questions

government never would have made such a demand of a small multinational because a small company would not have the necessary resou...

A Strategy For Google

This 4 page paper considers what strategies Google should pursues in the future The paper looks at the existing competences and op...

Currency Risk Management at McDonald's

and deal in the commodities that the company uses, such as orange juice. Mr. Pfaucht explains that he has to fully understa...

Production and Liability

corporations are self-policing themselves for more accountability -- and how this action will likely carry over into the 2000s. Op...

Overview of Facilities Management

manage large projects, even though s/he may never need to actually perform that function. Any large projects likely will be outso...

International Operations and TQM

company is no longer necessarily competing against neighbors or regional firms -- that company could be competing with a similar c...

E-Systems and the Addition of a KMS or Knowledge Management System

was below $8 at the end of 1999; it last closed near $4.50, which represents an increase of nearly 100 percent. Revenues are repo...

Wine.Com and Timberweb.Com Ecompany Analyses

top sellers or top rated wines. Both pages offer numerous hyperlinks, including a top menu for going directly to specific places....

Human Resource Management and Efforts to Create or Promote Positive Organizational Behavior

that will have the greatest success. Organizational Structure In Singers heyday it was not necessary to operate at the grea...

Dana Corporation Operations and Staffing

the company... * "Break down barriers between departments... * "Remove barriers that rob the hourly worker of his right to pride o...

Penske and Database Use

meeting their changing needs, Levitt (1986) argues that the future of the railroad industry could have been much different. It, a...

3 Technology Questions

has strong a weak forms (Cross et al, 1974). Question 2 The open source software movement may be seen in relation to the way th...

Operations Management and Small Business

is costly and too little results in lost sales and a decline in customer goodwill. It is not easy to calculate the amount of inven...

Unique Restaurant Opening Business Plan

restaurant. The owner also has a college degree in hospitality and extensive experience with fiscal matters. Financial Analysis T...

Operations Management and Quality

course, everything has its price and quality control does cost money. At the same time, in the long run, most agree that attention...

Leadership

they are passionate about reaching the vision (ChangingMinds.com, 2008). Jack Welch was an exceptional leader. Welch was describ...

IBM Proposal for a Knowledge Management Program

nineteenth century, and develops through the twentieth century, always based in the development of new technologies. IBM have been...

Considerations When Going Global

trust" (The Federation of European Employers, 2003). The members of the work councils are elected by the employees and the gender ...

The Use of ICT in Corporations

One of the operations that we know gives a company a competitive advantage is a well-managed supply chain. Along the lines of corp...

Book Review; the Fundamentals of Production Planning and Control by Stephen Chapman

book states that it focuses on the part of operations which are needed, without distracting the reader with unimportant or relevan...

Influences on British Airways and their Approach to HRM

shifting with increased travel being undertaken with the low cost carriers, this has changed the pricing structure of the industry...

Designing a Performance Management System for Southwest Airlines

a performance management system that assesses processes and efficiency enroute to arriving at the bottom line. Measuring Performan...

Lowell System

single location" (Francis Lowell, 2001). Contemporary commentary on the way in which Lowells first factory seemed to spring up ov...

Technology and Its Impact Upon Management and Production Operations

the risk manager concerning the high rate of assembly accidents, some of which have been quite serious. The number of accidents h...