...Rodney McAdam; Peter Stevenson; Gren Armstrong With increasing market pressure and fragmentation Small to Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) must move beyond the change philosophy of Continuous Improvement (CI) and develop a culture of innovation. To find out if SMEs could go beyond CI to achieve...

... Activity‐based costing Small‐ to‐medium‐sized enterprises Today, the manufacturing industry experiences dramatic changes. Decreasing product life‐cycle, product variability, flexibility, agile manufacturing and product functional quality are some of the extra dimensions added to the complexity...

... effectively, important domain knowledge needs to be encoded in the case indexing structure, as well as in the retrieval mechanism and in case adaptation (Richter, 1995). © MCB UP Limited 2000 Manufacturing systems Management structure Small‐ to‐medium‐sized enterprises Hong Kong...