Instrumentation‚ Systems and Automation Society. Presented at ISA EXPO 2003‚ 21-23 October 2003 in Houston‚ TX; http://www.isa.org Identifying some of the key metrics is a natural habit for most plants. The plant personnel often know the important factors affecting the product quality and downtime. Once the important key metrics are identified‚ templates are built around these metrics. The templates are applied to a period of time that you want to use for benchmarks of performance. The optimistic case
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SUCCESS has been the ultimate goal of every business activity [1]. It is highly important for the organizations to be successful in their businesses in order to survive in competitive business environments such as construction. The construction industry is changing constantly with the developments of new business methods and technologies [2]. Thus‚ construction companies have to adopt these applications and develop appropriate strategies to be more competitive in this industry and
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Critical Success Factors of Enterprise Resource Planning Systems Implementation Success in China Liang Zhang‚ Matthew K.O. Lee‚ Zhe Zhang1‚ Probir Banerjee Department of Information Systems‚ City University of Hong Kong‚ Hong Kong‚ China iszhang@is.cityu.edu.hk; ismatlee@cityu.edu.hk; ispb@is.cityu.edu.hk 1 Faculty of Business Administration‚ Northeastern University‚ Shenyang‚ China Zhangz27@hotmail.com ERP systems were introduced to China at the beginning of 1980s when several state-owned companies
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The 8 Key Factors are: 1. Business Case – I agree that building a strong business case to be communicated and shared with the Project stakeholders/sponsors and Team members is of extreme importance. This is a task with extreme strategic value‚ as it will be linked to motivation for the entire team. When the team members know that the project is based on a solid business case‚ it serves to justify the utility and value of the project for the sponsors and the organization. Having project based
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focused on globally marketing its brand-name products: mobile and desktop PCs‚ servers and storage‚ LCD monitors and high-definition TVs‚ and handheld/navigational devices. Acer’s unique Channel Business Model is instrumental to the company’s continued success. The model encourages partners and suppliers to collaborate in a winning formula of supply-chain management‚ allowing Acer to provide customers with fresh technologies‚ competitive pricing‚ and quality service. Established in 1976‚ Acer Inc. employs
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Matilda‚ A. and Laliana‚ I.(2012) CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTORS OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM PROJECTS SUPPORTED BY EU PROGRAMS. This review discusses the work of two authors‚ Matilda and Lalina (2012) a study of Critical success factors of project Management. The argument will be developed through a critical review of Matilda’s and Laliana’s paper followed by discussing its conceptual bases ‚ research methods‚ main findings (outcomes) and finally summarizing overall strengths‚ weaknesses
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The Implementation Imperatives and Critical Success Factors of Enterprise Systems: A Literature Review Yu-Ting Chen School of Information Studies‚ Syracuse University‚ New York‚ USA Table of contents Abstract………………………………………………………………………………..1 Introduction……………………………………………………………………………1 Influence of Enterprise Systems……………………………………………….......….3 Implementation Criteria……………………………………………………………...10 Conclusion……………………………………………………………………………17 Bibliography……………………………………………………………………….…18 Appendix……………………………………………………………………………
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_INTRODUCTION_ ExxonMobil Corporation is the second largest integrated oil company in the world. In 2011 it ranked 3rd in the world’s largest companies with a revenue of $354‚674 million and total profit of $30460 million. ExxonMobil has evolved from a regional marketer of kerosene in the U.S. to the largest trader of petroleum and petrochemical enterprise in the world. They are best known by their familiar brand names: Exxon‚ Esso and Mobil and they supply to more than 40‚000 service stations
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Critical factors for successful ERP implementation: Exploratory findings from four case studies Jaideep Motwani a‚*‚ Ram Subramanian a‚ Pradeep Gopalakrishna b a Seidman School of Business‚ Grand Valley State University‚ Department of Management‚ 401 West Fulton‚ Grand Rapids‚ MI 49504‚ USA b Department of Marketing and International Business‚ Lubin School of Business‚ Pace University‚ New York‚ NY 10038‚ USA Received 29 March 2004; received in revised form 14 December 2004; accepted 13 February
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Lean: A key success factor in automobile industry Abstract The concept of Lean Manufacturing is well known and is being applied widely in industry. As industry moves forward in deploying lean concepts‚ it is important to recognize the potential benefit for attacking waste in above-the-shop-floor processes. While the benefits are significant in production‚ this typically constitutes less than 30 percent of the total cost of a product. Furthermore‚ the distributed‚ collaborative nature of manufacturing
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