...Feng Li Purpose This study identifies three emerging approaches for leading successful digital transformation. It challenges the validity and effectiveness of traditional linear processes for digital transformation that first develop a new strategy, business model or organizational design enabled...

..., this study contributes by empirically examining the factors affecting the ability of a firm’s supply management to create value. Capability Strategy Supply chain management Value creation Supply management Key supplier Value creation as a basic premise of business has been discussed...

... then, such efficiency gains are rarely cast in a broader, strategic perspective – a somewhat surprising omission. Consequently, this study seeks to clarify the relationship between logistics and generic business strategy in dairy organisations/industries by using the New Zealand dairy industry as a case in point...

... deviate substantially from industry trends in this respect, in that they are highly decentralised and vary in terms of key service design characteristics: © MCB UP Limited 2003 National Health Service Service delivery Strategy Management Call centres United Kingdom Awareness...

...Ravi Kathuria; Stephen J. Porth Prior research of the influence of “upper echelon” managers has confirmed the importance of matching the characteristics of senior executives with the requirements of their organizations’ strategies. Firms that achieved higher levels of strategy‐manager alignment...

...‐ordered into new competences, more applicable to present or future contexts. Strategy Competences Resources Service operations Competence approaches to strategy making have received increasing attention in recent times (for example Hamel and Prahalad, 1994) complementing rather than...

.... This paper uses data from the International Manufacturing Strategy Survey (1996‐98) to examine how these similarities and differences may have impacted on the manufacturing strategies adopted by firms in the two regions. Whilst Australian and European manufacturers seem similar in many respects...

...R. Phaal; C.J.P. Farrukh; D.R. Probert The effective management of technology as a source of competitive advantage is of vital importance for many organisations. It is necessary to understand, communicate and integrate technology strategy with marketing, financial, operations and human resource...

... the process; who should participate in the process and how the project of implementing the process should be managed. Their subsequent examination of the manufacturing strategy development process used the generic process framework identified by Platts (1990, 1994): point of entry; participation...

... and using field experts, identifies the future role of TQM in businesses facing global markets. © MCB UP Limited 2001 Quality TQM Implementation Strategy Globalization It was in the 1980s that the quality revolution got a serious look by companies attempting to increase profitability...

..., culture, goal setting and strategy formulation. For the vision to be realized it needs to be converted into a process involving the planning and evaluation of performance. Both of these management systems rely on performance information (Sink and Tuttle, 1989; Kaplan and Norton, 1996a; 1996b...

... in order to efficiently use resources to meet organizational objectives. Furthermore, when purchasing is elevated in status with other major functions that define a firm’s competitive strategy, a proactive strategy can be developed by the firm to deal with environmental change. According to Browning et...

..., affected the apparel manufacturers’ adoption of a QR strategy which, in turn, influenced their use of various QR technologies. Each organization has unique long‐term objectives, and the strategies that they use to achieve those objectives follow certain common patterns. Based upon those patterns, Miles...

...Lucía Avella The aim of this work is to analyse the manufacturing strategies of the large Spanish industrial companies during the 1990s, making a comparison with the experience of American and other European manufacturers. To this end, and taking 1994 as a reference, this paper describes...

... business‐to‐business purchasing tool. A high level of interest in EC is piqued by its ability to reduce order cycle time, paperwork, order processing error, and procurement cost. Realizing such managerial benefits, buying firms need to reassess their current business‐to‐business purchasing strategy which...

...Albert H.C. Tsang; Andrew K.S. Jardine; Harvey Kolodny Performance measures should be linked to an organization’s strategy in order to provide useful information for making effective decisions and shaping desirable employee behaviour. The pitfalls relating to the indiscriminate use of common...

...Christine M. Harland; Richard C. Lamming; Paul D. Cousins This article proposes a conceptualisation for supply strategy – an explanation for how organisations arrange and conduct themselves within modern economic environments, in order to satisfy markets in the long and short terms. After...

...Steve Childe Management theory Manufacturing Strategy It is often very difficult for managers to stop fire‐fighting and develop well thought‐through strategies. In this book, Terry Hill attempts to encourage them by providing a plausible account of a company going through...

... success. An implementation strategy is proposed so that the organization will achieve the benefits of JIT and ultimately improve its strategic posture. The research instrument was formulated after an extensive review of the literature and the completion of the field study. The instrument consists...

...Kazem Chaharbaghi; Robert Willis Strategy model making has become a lucrative and growing industry. This industry appears to have no real purpose but superficially peddles the idea of a turnkey solution which is neither generic nor sustainable. As a result, the solution has now become part...