Industrial Management articles from March 2000

Industrial Management archives from March 2000

12 Steps to Better Benchmarking.
March 1, 2000... Executive Summary The authors propose 12 steps, guided by sociotechnical systems theory, to avoid dysfunctional practices and improve benchmarking. Policy deployment ensures that the right areas are the focus of the benchmarking effort;...

What I-Business Means for Management.(Internet business)
March 1, 2000... Executive Summary The authors describe four types of Internet business (I-business) and discuss two examples of companies -- Marshall Industries and General Motors -- that are currently using Internet technologies to redefine their...

Yesterday Is (More) Old News.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... In the January/February issue, I discussed the feelings of loss and betrayal that many long-term employees of merged or acquired companies experience. These feelings can trigger resistance and be a challenge to the policies being put into place...

Manufacturing Optimization: It's About Time.
March 1, 2000... Executive Summary The author reintroduces the concept of optimization and shows how manufacturing companies should use the concept and the techniques that flow from it to enhance their business operations. The term optimization has...

Catherine Land-Waters.(leading reorganization at Atlanta Gas Light Co.)
March 1, 2000... Ambiguity Is a Gas Catherine Land-Waters is moving. But you'd hardly know that from the way her office looks. It's incredibly orderly "I hadn't cleaned files in five years," she says. But I'm cleaning now. I'm not taking old stuff with...