About the Author |
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Preface |
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Acknowledgements |
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2 | (20) |
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What is Operations Management? |
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The History of Operations Management |
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The Role of Operations Management |
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Operations Within the Organization |
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The Process View of Operations |
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Service Operations Management |
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The Strategic Role of Operations |
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Technology and Operations Management |
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1.2 Manufacturing's Decline Partly Due to Services Shirt |
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Chapter 2 Operations Strategy |
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23 | (1) |
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Judging the Contribution of Operations to Strategy |
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26 | (1) |
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Measuring the Contribution of Operations to Strategy |
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27 | (7) |
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Operations Strategy Approaches |
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Operations Strategy Formulation |
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39 | (9) |
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Achieving Strategic Fit -- Trade-offs, Focus and Agility |
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25 | (5) |
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30 | (3) |
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2.3 Operations Strategy in Action |
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33 | (5) |
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38 | (17) |
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2.5 Ryanair: Flying High in a Competitive Atmosphere |
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55 | (18) |
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73 | (182) |
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74 | (18) |
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74 | (1) |
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Manufacturing Process Types |
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75 | (4) |
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Matching Process Type with Volume and Variety |
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84 | (1) |
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85 | (2) |
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87 | (1) |
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3.2 Confident Bet on Instant Heritage |
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88 | (4) |
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92 | (23) |
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92 | (1) |
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93 | (9) |
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102 | (7) |
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4.1 Line Balancing in a Manufacturing Plant |
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109 | (6) |
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Chapter 5 Facility design and Location |
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115 | (26) |
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116 | (1) |
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116 | (3) |
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Long-Term Capacity Planning |
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119 | (6) |
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125 | (4) |
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Location Selection Techniques |
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5.1 Asea Brown Boveri (ABB) |
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118 | (5) |
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5.2 The Supply Chains that Could Bind Unsuspecting Managers |
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123 | (5) |
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5.3 Moving Textile Manufacturing Overseas |
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128 | (7) |
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5.4 Mom-and-Pop Companies Face Struggle for Survival |
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135 | (6) |
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Chapter 6 Process Technology |
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141 | (21) |
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141 | (1) |
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Process Technology for Materials |
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142 | (5) |
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Process Technology for Information |
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147 | (10) |
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Process Technology for Customers |
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6.1 Spencer Davis Engineering |
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143 | (10) |
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153 | (2) |
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155 | (1) |
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6.4 How to Click with your Customers |
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155 | (3) |
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6.5 Retail Applications of Transaction Processing Systems by Sainsbury's |
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158 | (4) |
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Chapter 7 Product and Service Design |
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162 | (1) |
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163 | (12) |
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166 | (9) |
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7.2 Product Development at Fracino |
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175 | (2) |
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177 | (9) |
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7.4 Nanyang Optical: Beyond Product Design -- from Idea to Launch |
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186 | (15) |
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201 | (29) |
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201 | (1) |
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202 | (1) |
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Business Process Management (BPM) |
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203 | (1) |
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204 | (3) |
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207 | (13) |
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8.1 Why the Bunker Mentality has become a Corporate Liability |
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220 | (2) |
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8.2 Designing a Custody-of-Prisoner Process at a Police Force |
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222 | (8) |
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Chapter 9 Job and Work Design |
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230 | (25) |
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Behavioural Aspects of Job Design |
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231 | (6) |
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Physical Aspects of Job Design |
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236 | (2) |
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238 | (10) |
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9.4 The Importance of the Management of People |
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250 | (5) |
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255 | (282) |
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Chapter 10 Planning and Control |
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256 | (22) |
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256 | (1) |
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257 | (2) |
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259 | (11) |
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Optimized Production Technology (OPT) |
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267 | (7) |
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10.2 Using Workforce Scheduling to Lower Labour Costs |
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274 | (4) |
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Chapter 11 Capacity Management |
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278 | (44) |
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279 | (1) |
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279 | (2) |
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281 | (4) |
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Reconciling Capacity And Demand |
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285 | (5) |
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Evaluating Alternatives and Making a Choice |
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290 | (8) |
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11.1 Lloyds Cameras Cut Time in Queues |
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296 | (16) |
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312 | (3) |
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315 | (7) |
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Chapter 12 Inventory Management |
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322 | (26) |
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223 | (102) |
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325 | (1) |
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The ABC Inventory Classification System |
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326 | (1) |
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327 | (11) |
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Implementing Inventory Systems |
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338 | (2) |
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12.1 Risk-taking on the Road to Faster Delivery |
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340 | (2) |
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12.2 Implementing Inventory Systems |
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342 | (6) |
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Chapter 13 Lean Operations and JIT |
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348 | (23) |
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349 | (1) |
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The Philosophy of JIT and Lean Operations |
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Just-in-Time and Lean Techniques |
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352 | (12) |
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Just-in-Time in Service Systems |
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364 | (1) |
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Implementing JIT and Lean Operations |
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13.1 Quake Upsets Lean Supply Model |
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351 | (2) |
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353 | (5) |
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13.3 Goodwin Steel Castings |
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358 | (3) |
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361 | (5) |
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13.5 It Pays to Cut Out Waste but Not to Trim All the Value Away |
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366 | (5) |
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Chapter 14 Enterprise Resource Planning |
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371 | (20) |
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371 | (1) |
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Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems |
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372 | (4) |
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376 | (2) |
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Materials Requirements Planning |
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378 | (6) |
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Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP II) |
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384 | (1) |
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Distribution Requirements Planning (DRP) |
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14.1 Small and Medium Enterprises: How Oracle and SAP are Moving Down `The Tail' |
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375 | (11) |
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14.2 The Challenge of Changing Everything at Once |
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386 | (5) |
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Chapter 15 Supply Chain Management |
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391 | (43) |
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391 | (2) |
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393 | (11) |
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Activities in the Supply Chain |
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15.1 Demands to Drop Prices Spark Building Resentment among the Subcontractors |
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397 | (2) |
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15.2 BASF and Aker Kvaerner |
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15.3 Supplier Evaluation at EADS |
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409 | (3) |
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412 | (7) |
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15.5 Supply Chain Practices of Three European Apparel Companies: Zara, H&M and Benetton |
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419 | (15) |
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Chapter 16 Project Management |
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434 | (30) |
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435 | (1) |
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Project Management Activities |
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435 | (3) |
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Projects and Organizational Structure |
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438 | (1) |
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The Role of The Project Manager |
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439 | (1) |
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439 | (15) |
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16.1 Fast Homes -- Courtesy of Prefabrication |
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454 | (1) |
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16.2 The Concorde Project -- A Technical and Engineering Triumph but a Commercial Disaster |
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455 | (9) |
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464 | (1) |
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465 | (4) |
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469 | (3) |
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472 | (3) |
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Methodologies for Quality Improvement |
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475 | (3) |
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478 | (6) |
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Statistical Process Control (SPC) |
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484 | (12) |
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17.1 Adventures in Six Sigma: How the Problem-solving Technique helped Xerox |
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17.2 A Disciple of Japanese Quality Management |
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502 | (2) |
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504 | (6) |
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Chapter 18 Performance Measurement and Improvement |
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510 | (27) |
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How do we Measure Performance? |
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511 | (5) |
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Where Should we Improve Performance? |
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516 | (2) |
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How Do we Improve Performance? |
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518 | (1) |
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Business Process Re-Engineering |
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518 | (3) |
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521 | (5) |
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The Relationship between BPR and CI Approaches |
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18.1 Activity-Based Costing at a Police Service |
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514 | (9) |
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18.2 In the Age of the Smart Machine |
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523 | (2) |
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18.3 Managers Disrupt Learning with their `Great Ideas' |
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525 | (3) |
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18.4 Process Improvement at a UK Police Service |
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528 | (9) |
Glossary |
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Index |
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