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Operations Management and IT, TQM, and JIT Effects

* Manufacturing flexibility is essential (Green and Inman, 2000). * Customers define quality (Green and Inman, 2000). * Team effor...

Quality Costs

so as to enable production and service at the most economical levels which allow full customer satisfaction" (Feigenbaum, 1999). ...

Value of Leadership

century, and now in the early twenty-first, there is a tendency to treat human resources as more valuable than ever before. Each a...

Contributing Factors to Enron's Downfall

a great deal to do with the number of external factors and affiliations which many say reveal a weakness in the competitive and ri...

Software Quality and Configuration Management

activities that are undertaken. In reality there are many services that configuration management may provide any project, here i...

Marketing and Communications

Proctor and Gamble pharmaceuticals are a lively division. This is a company where it was once the role of the sales representative...

Case Study of the Stryker Corporation

were fiercely protected and licensed, but information shared with doctors. The trust levels were enhanced, which in turn created a...

Strategic Alliances and Definitions of Multinational and Transnational

or technology (Todeva and Knoke, 2001). There are a number of types of strategic alliances, including: * Joint Venture where two o...

Developing Groups and Teamwork

McNamara, 2000; Steward, Manz and Sims, 1999). In this particular group, only one member, the accountant, seemed reluctant to shar...

SWOT Analysis of VF Corporation and Nautica Enterprises

companies and then analyze their strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. Overview WHY THE ACQUISITION Perhaps un...

Kentucky Fried Chicken and Quality Management

from the drive-through window (DTW) operation. In the DTW, it seemed as though service was hugely slow. Adding to that, t...

Approaches to Conflict Management

mind. Your opponent might change your mind. More important, if your opponent had used Rogerian persuasion on you to enlist your ...

External Factors Impacting Computer Sciences Corporation

competition has been around almost as long as CSC has. CSC has, in fact, spent much of its time in acquiring other smaller compani...

Stockholder and Social Corporate Responsibility

fault entirely, he stepped down to make the controversy go away. Still, such ideas linger. When do the obligations of the firm to ...

U.S. Business and Its Systems of Pay, Evaluation and Rewards

while others find there is more advantage to increasing the level of insurance benefits. Still other corporations deem various co...

Dell's New Strategy Plan

tag, it is hard to know whether or not the future will be just as kind to this firm that has done well so far. After all, the econ...

1870 to 1914 Corporate America

with presidents. In addition having only limited power and little regulation in existence to hold these companies back. In additi...

Morgan's Organizational Metaphors and the Microsoft Corporation Analyzed

its popular Windows operating system and the Microsoft Office Suite. The company has expanded within the last decade to include su...

Analysis of Intel

there have been plenty of legal problems besetting the company, mostly from rival Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) (Hoovers Company Pr...

Enron and WorldCom Financial Statement Manipulation

processes (Chidi, 2002). Some of the accounting techniques used at WorldCom in order to supplement R&D write-offs included the use...

Nokia Corporation Analysis

year (Lee and Raza, 2000). Since Russia had been a large purchaser of mobile phones, Nokias mobile division experienced severe los...

A Case Study and Overview of the Globix Corporation

fiber-optic backbone network connecting three advanced SuperPOP Internet Data Centers in New York, Santa Clara and London" (Globix...

Abraham Maslow, the Hawthorne Studies, and Management's Human Relations School

impact on both the quality and productivity of the workplace. It showed that any environmental changes, could, in the short term i...

Major Software Corporations and Issues of Security

a single patch was created by Microsoft to address both problems (2003). One vulnerability, as described by the bulletin, explai...

Total Quality Management and the Effects of Human Resources Management

middle of the 20th century (actually, following the end of World War II, when statistician William Deming took his "14 Points," in...

Financial Comparative Analysis of HCA Inc. and Tenet Healthcare Corp.

birth though to death with general and acute facilities as well as specialised facilities such as cardiology, oncology, orthopaedi...

Object Oriented Database Systems (OODB)

by no means efficient. Ahn and Kim (2002) write that the upper layers of an OO database management system "should be adapted to t...

Organization Success and Efficient Management's Important Role

this group of people demonstrated an increase in productivity. This starts to give credence to the view that working condition hav...

Globalization and its Effects

as officially achieving "mature" status. Singapore began its quest for modernization and sustainable development in 1960. ...

Globalization and the Effects of Multinational Corporations

countries, the remaining 51% are corporations (Anderson and Cavanagh n.d.). This starts to indicate the level of economic power th...