...Aline Dresch; Douglas Rafael Veit; Pedro Nascimento de Lima; Daniel Pacheco Lacerda; Dalila Cisco Collatto Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present a method for assisting micro and small companies of the industrial sector with the adoption of Lean practices. Design/methodology/approach...

...Thomas Grünberg There is a range of methodologies and techniques aimed at improving the effectiveness and efficiency of operational activity. Examples are business process reengineering, total quality management and organisation development. Such methods differ from each other in how “improvement...

...Dilanthi Amaratunga; David Baldry; Marjan Sarshar; Rita Newton Built environment research consists of cognitive and affective, as well as behavioural, components. Existing built environment research utilises either strong qualitative or, more often, strong quantitative methodologies. Aims...

...” and “multivariate” methods. This detail is not of central concern in the present paper, but it turned out that the two methods gave very similar results on Johnnie’s dataset. © MCB UP Limited 2000 Measurement Methodology Statistics Banks Johnnie (1996) published data from Nigeria...

... © MCB UP Limited 1999 --> Quality Company performance Improvement Methodology John OaklandButterworth HeinemannISBN 0750632097£35 Keywords Quality, Company performance, Improvement, Methodology The quality revolution appears to have stalled. Of course, many...

... © MCB UP Limited 1999 --> Problem solving Methodology Decision making Thinking styles The Next Common Sense: Mastering Corporate Complexity through Coherence Michael Lissack and Johan RoosNicholas Brealey PublishingISBN 1857882407$25 Keywords: Problem solving...

... attributes of CASE and examines the reasons why the introduction of CASE may fail. © MCB UP Limited 1999 CASE Systems development Organizational change Methodology Consistency of approach should mean consistent user interfaces to systems. This results in less training, fewer errors...

... © MCB UP Limited 1999 --> Knowledge-based systems Knowledge workers Methodology Media news Creating the knowledge-based business Business Intelligence Ltd£595 Keywords Knowledge-based systems, Knowledge workers, Methodology Knowledge management...

...Alan George Train and Develop Your Staff: A Do‐it‐Yourself Guide for Managers . Gower , £35 Methodology Skills Training One of the key responsibilities of today’s managers is to develop the skills of their people. In a large organisation, there may be a human...

...D.S. Barrett Explains the reasons behind, and the methodology of, a project to introduce a systematic work measurement programme based on standard data to a particular set of operations at the Rank Xerox Mitcheldean site. Points out both the successes and failings of the resultant scheme. © MCB...

...B.A. Lehaney; Gerald Vinten The purposes of this article are to outline a number of contradictory ways in which the term “methodology” has been used in published works on the management sciences, to highlight the problems which can be caused by using the single word “methodology” to mean many...