Recently added articles from Management Services:
Embracing the five lean principles
Oct 01, 2009; ... Customer driven supply chain strategy. By Dr Janet Godsell, Senior Lecturer, Supply Chain Research Centre, Cranfield School of Management. The current economic downturn means that many companies are wrestling with the apparently conflicting priorities of reducing costs today whilst ...
Continuous Improvement as a business strategy
Oct 01, 2009; ... How Continuous Improvement helped Corus transform production at its Scunthorpe plate mill. Introduction The steel manufacturing company Corus focuses on meeting the needs of its worldwide customers and providing innovative solutions. It manufactures, processes and distributes ...
Lean Six Sigma applied to a Customer Services Process within a Commercial Finance Organisation
Oct 01, 2009; ... An empirical case study by Dr Nuran Fraser, Manchester Metropolitan University, and John Fraser, GE Money. Abstract This study explores the use of Lean Six Sigma (L6S) methodologies and tools as applied to supply chains within a services environment. The approach taken was to ...
The Search for Leadership: An Organisational Perspective
Oct 01, 2009; ... The Search for Leadership: An Organisational Perspective Author: William Tate Publisher: Triarchy Press Publication Date: 21 May 2009 Pages: 324 Book type: Paperback ISBN: 978-0-9557681-7-0 List Price: £28 Introduction The importance of inspirational leadership has been ...
Time study
Oct 01, 2009; ... A Modern Data Capture Method. Reviewed by Geoff Mansfield, IMS Director. Current Business Improvement Techniques can overlook the precise quantification of work. I am both a Lean Practitioner and a qualified IMS work measurement practitioner and ? all industry sectors it can seem that we ...