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Industrial Management articles from November 1996
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Industrial Management archives from November 1996
Is manufacturing a weak link in your supply chain?
November 1, 1996... Manufacturing wants to produce a predetermined amount of product to a set schedule, while customers want their suppliers to be very responsive and provide short cycle deliveries to meet their changing demands. The manufacturers want to sell large...
Imprinting change on your organization.
November 1, 1996... Xerox recently implemented a redesign of their organization. The redesign included a complete reorganization of who they were and the function they were supposed to be performing. When this "new organization" was announced, half of Xerox's...
Understanding and using empowerment to change organizational culture.
November 1, 1996... In the 1980s, many organizations sought to implement participative management. More recently, the concept of empowerment has added to participative management by encouraging employees to internalize their organization's culture and make...
ISO 9000: focusing on quality systems.
November 1, 1996... Whether intentional or not, the vast majority of the literature on the subject of ISO 9000 focuses on the process of implementation as compliance with the standard. The emphasis is on various ways of conducting gap analyses between the standard...
JIT purchasing: analyzing survey results. (Just-in-Time purchasing systems)
November 1, 1996... Applications of Just-in-Time (JIT) purchasing systems are growing in the United States. Today, they are being used not only as a part of standard JIT systems but also as independent purchasing systems. Such systems include delivery of required...
How to lead and facilitate teams.
November 1, 1996... Organizations increasingly are relying on teams to produce results. Many different types of teams exist, ranging from specific short-term, problem-solving teams, to longer-term project teams. Many of these teams are cross-functional, drawing on...
Practical issues of technology transfer in high-tech industrial organizations.
November 1, 1996... Technology transfer, or the process by which ideas are translated into new products, requires high levels of cooperation among a diverse set of participants from R&D, production, marketing, and other functional groups. The human and...