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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 ...

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...

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...

Global Business Issues

7) Dollarization (i.e., pegging a foreign currency to the dollar), pros and cons. 8) Technology and its impact...

Trade Secrets and What Constitutes Them Assessed

statement as to whether it has ever done business with Cheap Cups; the owner of Cheap Cups supposedly is unfamiliar with Farber Co...

1954 Blacklisted Film Salt of the Earth

In fact, information included in the DVD release of the film explains that Biberman was arrested while filming the movie and had t...

Global Manager Impact and Globalization

In eight pages the changes in management operations and the role of a manager as the result of globalization are examined in a con...

Overview of the Campbell's Soup Company

as David Ogilvy, Lee Iacocca, Estee Lauder and Douglas R. Conant can be characterized as leading like emperors since they "run the...

An Evaluation of a Business

In a paper consisting of 10 pages an evaluation of a business prior to purchase is examined by using an instructional case study t...

The UK Government's Draft of 'A Way With Waste'

In this paper consisting of six pages a reduction of ion waste is examined with the writer pondering how this policy change will i...

Acitivity Based Costing Explanation

In six pages the operation of activity based costing is discussed in an argument that it is more accurate than other methods of ma...

Corporate Systems of Budgetary Control

to a corporation, it would first be helpful to define what, precisely is involved in budgetary control systems. First of all, a bu...

IT Outsourcing

emerging service companies to deliver accounting, human resources, data processing, internal mail distribution, security, plant m...

Operations Management and Technology's Impact

manufacturing environment, the operations manager will have the greatest degree of influence and impact in this arena (Obringer, ...

U.S. 'Wealthfare' is a Bad Idea

According to a survey released by Essential Information in 1994, it was estimated that U.S. tax payers would pay more in 1994 for ...

Examining CSX Corporation

CSX - An Overview Based in Richmond, Va., the CSX Corporation is a worldwide transportation and distribution company with ...

Corporations, Stakeholders, and Ethics

of their stakeholders, and if both companies operated ethically as well. The answer is yes - both companies, in their own way, did...

The Impact of Airport Security Measures on Management Operations

very equipment upon which food and beverages are served, in-flight food service has been faced with an unexpected need to modify i...

Kaisha, a Japanese Corporation According to Abbeglen and Stalk

the evolution of both U.S. and European industry in order to check the advances of the Japanese (1985). The sinister conspiracy th...

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...

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...

Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility

but also giving store workers paid time off to perform community service work. The Chubb Group of Insurance Companies practices w...

Operation Mexicano Project and the Case of Carl Conway

PERT, which is used to determine time estimates. A key concept in project management is creating network diagrams using PERT/CPM (...

Operations Management Overview

the destination market is. The determination of choices need to be based on factual statistical evidence. This is at the highest...

Case Study of a Global Science Applications Company

macro environment. If the economy slows down there may be less disposable income to spend on new systems, cost cutting will be t...

Issues Related to the Antitrust Case of the Microsoft Corporation

Needless to say, there were many who were irate about the decision, although most consumers who use Microsoft products were elated...

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...