This book provides a practical approach to creating and implementing cost-effective business processes. Focusing on key elements of a robust business plan, it defines the core business processes needed in a successful process-driven organization, and offers checklists of essential criteria for designing the process. Containing chapters on customer ......
The contributing authors to this study addre ss a range of issues relating to the effects of global chang e and the potential for cooperation between corporations ope rating in a competitive market. '
This overview and assessment of state-of-the -art strategies for performance and productivity in public a nd non- profit organizations are research-based and draw on real cases. Topics covered include TQM, partnering and strat egic engineering. '
McWhinney explicitly takes account of differ ent world views and the need to reconcile and go beyond thes e in effecting major change, providing the reader with a pro ven strategy for making changes, and addressing problems fac ed in daily business life. '
Contending that many companies have lost the art of strategic thinking and so have failed or lost substantial parts of their market shares, introduces the Market Commitment model, which focuses on competitive advantage in performance, service, emotional connection with customers, and price. Explain
Successful Diversity Management Initiatives presents the specific phases and steps to help plan, direct, and manage strategic organizational development, and serves as a developmental model for diversity-related change.
Media professionals and novices in every division of mass communication are expected to produce effectively researched, written and presented proposals for enterprise projects. Drawing on the experience of over 90 media professionals, this essential book describes the creative process necessary to produce such proposals for print and broadcast ......
The narrative of this text follows ten years of a major initiative by Pirelli General - the creation and operation of an automated "factory of the future". Topics and themes developed and analyzed include: strategy formulation; "strategy and structure"; human resource management and industrial relations; site location; technological innovation; introducing total quality control management and a culture of continuous improvement; theories of leadership; and managing strategic change.
Organizational and Human Resource Management Dimensions
Over the past decade, many companies have adopted new strategies for manufacturing, which have taken their competitiveness on to new planes. A whole array of initiatives, such as FMS, JIT, TQM, CIM, and MRP II, have been introduced. This book deals with the far-reaching significance of these new approaches - collectively labelled "new wave manufacturing". Considerable research evidence as well as practitioners' own experiences make one crucial point time and time again. The organizational as well as the human resource management aspects of these new strategies are critical to their success or failure. The underlying theme which is tackled in this book, therefore, is to what extent do these new operational strategies require a matching set of organizational and HR strategies? By looking at the issues through the joint eyes of production and behavioural analysts, this book provides an unique introduction to the new developments in manufacturing as well as providing an up-to-date assessment of the organizational and H R dimensions to these methods. New Wave Manufacturing Strategies has a vision which goes beyond the "new technology"/advanced manufacturing technology discussions. The chapters have been written in a clear, accessible manner by leading experts from Europe, the USA and Australia as well as from the UK.
