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Peter Checkland and his colleagues developed Soft System Methodology (SSM) (associated with the department of systems at Lancaster University in UK) with the intention to fetch an organized technique towards the explanation of imprecise management-type problems. The rationale of a rich picture is to help out the analyst to gain a deep insight of the complex problem situations. The paper opted for...
It has been found that significant benefits can be achieved if suppliers are involved in the early phase of new product development process. However, in practice, this approach do not always bright in the desired benefits, if does not have a negative influence on the buyer firm's performance. Trying to solve this problem, this paper describes a new management model based on a multicriteria sorting...
Competition and cooperation among enterprises within a cluster is a type of dynamic competition and cooperation. Enterprises' reliance on competitive advantage of the integral whole of the cluster and pressure for seeking self-development keep clustering enterprises positioned in incessant gaming of competition and cooperation to form a new relationship of competition and cooperation. This new relationship...
The demand for outsourcing in the information systems (IS) field has become a part of basic corporate strategy and has experienced a considerable growth in recent years. The process of IS outsourcing is always involved in a variety of situations and decision problems under fuzzy environment. The selection of appropriate outsourcing partners thus is one of the most important decision issues for organizations...
In operation management/strategy research field, Total Quality Management (TQM) has been considered as infrastructural strategy. Both manufacturing and service organizations trend to implement this strategy in order to maintain their competitive advantages. The purpose of this study is to develop the conceptual model of TQM implementation. Authors review updated literature on TQM research organized...
Current project management practices, stemming from research and development projects, ramping-up and optimization of production processes, and turnkey infrastructure delivery, provide incomplete answers to todaypsilas challenges in operations services management. The arena of long-term and ongoing operations services poses new challenges. From empirical studies involving many ldquomanaged servicesrdquo...
A new Markov decision problem (MDP)-based method for managing goal attainment (GA), which is the process of planning and controlling actions that are related to the achievement of a set of defined goals in the presence of resource and time constraints, is proposed. Specifically, we address the problem as one of optimally selecting a sequence of actions to transform the system and/or its environment...
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