Industrial Management articles from March 1996

Industrial Management archives from March 1996

American managers and their Asian counterparts.
March 1, 1996... Being a manager in America is not what it used to be. If you want to know how it used to be, go to Asia, where they still practice no-nonsense management - focused, single minded. Contrary to common perception that Asian management is based on...

Sustaining high performance through self-managed work teams.
March 1, 1996... "Self-managed work team" is fast becoming the corporate catch phrase of the 1990s, not because corporations are becoming kinder and gentler toward employees, but because they want to survive in a globally competitive environment. Self-managed...

Central issues in implementing market plans in industrial organizations.
March 1, 1996... Although smaller industrial organizations perform a vital function in the American economy, their sales and marketing concerns have yet to receive much attention in literature. A field study we conducted, however, sheds light on how marketing...

A theory of constraints fable: part 1. (management theory)
March 1, 1996... While I was perusing the classified advertisements in a metropolitan newspaper, the following caught my attention: "Plant Manager for Plant 10; Knowledge of modern mang. tech. rqrd. Salary neg. Rspd. to Box 114." Since I am an engineer, I was...

Operations improvement now. (production and delivery system improvement)
March 1, 1996... A relentless barrage of management philosophy acronyms has left many production and service system managers and staff feeling they should be doing something, but they are not sure what. A number of highly respectable and effective long-term...

Design for success. (product design)
March 1, 1996... Companies create products to meet the needs of their customers. Proper design of those products can be the critical factor that determines whether or not a firm succeeds in the marketplace. There continues to be a proliferation of philosophies...