Executive Summary The Tombow Pencil Co. established in the early 20th Centaury has survived many difficult times in Japanese history‚ including the Second World War‚ numerous recessions and fundamental technological changes affecting its market. However‚ profits have declined and remained low during the 1990’s despite efforts to modernise. In reviewing this case it is tempting to view its current methods as inefficient‚ with an over-reliance on many subcontractors‚ with the temptation of following
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CHAPTER 5 COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE AND STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT FOR PERFORMANCE EXCELLENCE TRUE/FALSE QUESTIONS 1. Core competence process by which the members of an organization envision its future and develop the necessary procedures and operations to carry out that vision. Answer: False AACSB: Analytic Page: 188-189 2. Improved conformance in production leads to lower manufacturing and service costs. Answer: True AACSB: Reflective Thinking Page: 190 3. Market share is inversely related
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Just-In-Time Inventory Management Strategy & Lean Manufacturing Overview of Just-in-Time Inventory Management Just-in-time is a movement and idea that has gained wide acceptance in the business community over the past decade. As companies became more and more competitive and the pressures from Japans continuous improvement culture‚ other firms were forced to find innovative ways to cut costs and compete. The idea behind JIT‚ or lean manufacturing‚ is to have the supplies a firm needs at the
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Materials Management INTRODUCTION Putting in the simplest terms materials management is about moving the materials within an organization. What do “materials” mean? Materials can basically be defined as those objects or things that are to be moved in order to produce goods. Material is one of the 5M’s that a manager has at his command‚ the other being Men‚ Machine‚ Methods and Money. Materials could be in the form of raw materials‚ paperwork‚ messages or information etc. So materials can be both
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Organizational Technology Integration Evaluation Model Leopoldo E. Madrigal University of Phoenix An organizational technology integration model will be proposed using a specific case in the automotive industry‚ one that took place in 1998. A consideration to be noted is the potential that the proposed model could had been used successfully at the time of the presented case’s implementation as it may be used today in any situation to assess technology efficiency. Antecedents
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IJMBS Vol. 2‚ ISSue 2‚ AprIl - June 2012ISSN : 2230-9519 (Online) | ISSN : 2231-2463 (Print) www.ijmbs.com Internat I onal Journal of Manage M ent & BusIness stud I es 55 Abstract Service sector constitutes more than 70 percent of the GDP in many developed economies. According to the 1999 Statistical Yearbook (United Nations‚ 1999) service sector employment is more than 80% in United States and more than 70 percent in Canada‚ Japan‚ France‚ Israel‚ and Australia. There is no such thing as a
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Just-In-Time Method Just-In-Time Method Professor: Filip Ivanovski Course: Operational Management Made by: Nela Pamukova ID: 9589 Skopje‚ 2012 Professor: Filip Ivanovski Course: Operational Management Made by: Nela Pamukova ID: 9589 Skopje‚ 2012 Just-in-Time Method presented with Case Studies in the auto industries in India with wide elaboration of the cases and concepts. Just-in-Time Method presented with Case Studies in the auto industries in India with wide elaboration
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PAPER PRESENTATION ON IMPACT OF LEAN PRODUCTION STRATEGY IN DIFFERENT SECTORS PRESENTED BY MRS.B.Ramya HariGanesan.‚ M.F.C.‚ M.PHIL. RESEARCH SCHOLAR 16A/8‚ GANDHI NAGAR III Street‚ Opp. to good shepherd institute of medical ACADEMY RaNiPeT‚ Vellore Dt.623401 IN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INNOVATIVE PRACTICE IN GLOBAL BUSINESS IN THE THEME INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT HELD ON FEBRUARY 5TH‚ 2014 BY DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES (CENTRE FOR CREATIVE LEADERS & ENTREPRENEURS) IN
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SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT A STRATEGIC APPROACH TO THE PRINCIPLES OF TOYOTA’S RENOWNED SYSTEM ANANTH V. IYER SRIDHAR SESHADRI ROY VASHER New York Chicago San Francisco Lisbon London Madrid Mexico City Milan New Delhi San Juan Seoul Singapore Sydney Toronto Copyright © 2009 by Ananth V. Iyer‚ Sridhar Seshadri‚ and Roy Vasher. All rights reserved. Except as permitted under the United States Copyright Act of 1976‚ no part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by
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1 CHAPTER I 1. INTRODUCTION Sociologists searching for a model form of work organisation which claims to improve organizational performance and gain competitive advantage‚ whilst improving workers‟ experience of the employment relationship‚ have encountered a difficult challenge. The high performance model is seen by a number of practitioners and researchers as the latest attempt to construct an alternative to Taylorism and lean production. Advocates of the high performance workplace
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