Focused operations management achieving more with existing resources /
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Hoboken, N.J. :
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Table of Contents:
- pt. I. The Dynamic Management Environment
- Ch. 1. The Modern Business Environment
- Ch. 2. Principles of Management in the Dynamic Environment
- Ch. 3. The Pareto Rule, the Focusing Table, and the Focusing Matrix
- pt. II. New Approaches in Management
- Ch. 4. Managing the System by Its Constraints
- Ch. 5. Management by Constraints in a Bottleneck Environment
- Ch. 6. Managing by Constraints When the Market Is the Constraint
- Ch. 7. Focused Current Reality Tree
- Ch. 8. Resolving Managerial Conflicts
- Ch. 9. The Efficiencies Syndrome
- Ch. 10. Evils of Long Response Times
- Ch. 11. Reducing Response Times
- Ch. 12. The Complete Kit Concept
- Ch. 13. Performance Measures and Managerial Control
- Ch. 14. The Effects of Fluctuations, Variability, and Uncertainty on the System
- Ch. 15. Evils of Traditional Cost Accounting
- Ch. 16. Marketing, Costing, and Pricing Considerations in Decision-Making Processes
- Ch. 17. Quality Management and Process Control
- pt. III. Strategy and Value Creation
- Ch. 18. Strategy, Positioning, and Focusing
- Ch. 19. Value Creation
- pt. IV. Applying the Focused Management Approach
- Ch. 20. Value-Focused Project Management
- Ch. 21. Managing Research and Development
- Ch. 22. The Focused Management Approach in Logistics
- pt. V. Perspective and Implementation
- Ch. 23. Our Managerial Credo.