cha06369_tn05.qxd 3/4/03 11:05 AM Page 186 technical note five F A C I L I T Y L AYO U T 187 Basic Production Layout Formats Process layout defined Product layout defined Group technology (cellular) layout defined Fixed-position layout defined 188 Process Layout Computerized layout techniques—CRAFT Systematic layout planning CRAFT defined Systematic layout planning (SLP) defined 193 Product Layout Assembly lines Assembly-line balancing Splitting tasks Flexible
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disappears, without anyone quite realizing what has happened. The company is still growing, but not as strongly as before, not as efficiently. Everyone’s maxing out, but it seems like there’s molasses in the works. Sound familiar? Sooner or later, it hits you in the face. Imagine you are meeting up with a senior analyst whose opinion counts with some of your company’s biggest investors. You think you’re on safe ground—after all, your company is doing better than the competition. But the analyst is in full
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The Social Life of Information by John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid Harvard Business School Press, February 2000. ISBN: 0875847625 Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Tunneling Ahead 1 1 Limits to Information 11 2 Agents and Angels 35 3 Home Alone 63 4 Practice Makes Process 91 5 Learning -- in Theory and in Practice 117 6 Innovating Organization, Husbanding Knowledge 147 7 Reading the Background 173 8 Re-education 207 Afterword: Beyond Information 243
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UMT Dissertation Publishing UMI 3452478 Copyright 2011 by ProQuest LLC. All rights reserved. This edition of the work is protected against unauthorized copying under Title 17, United States Code. ProQuest LLC 789 East Eisenhower Parkway P.O. Box 1346 Ann Arbor, Ml 48106-1346 Copyright 2011 Daniel R. Bennett APPROVAL PAGE Examining the Relationship Between Emotional Intelligence of Managers and Organizational Commitment of Subordinates by Daniel R. Bennett Approved by: air:
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understanding of the subject matter and the numerous case studies demonstrate a close connection with actual experience.’ Andrew Inkpen, J. Kenneth and Jeanette Seward Chair in Global Strategy, Thunderbird, The Garvin School of International Management ‘Companies need to know not just how to compete with other firms, but how to cooperate with them. The proliferation of joint ventures, partnerships, and strategic alliances reflect the increasingly dispersed and networked structure of modern business organisation
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Keiretsu Membership, Firm Size, and Corporate Returns on Value and Cost∗ Xueping Wu† , Piet Sercu‡ and Charles Chen§ First draft: November 1998; this version: October 2000 ∗ Jun Yao and Shu-Chuen Chong provided helpful research assistance. The authors thank Kathryn Dewenter, Amar Gande, Larry Goldberg, Ser-Huang Poon, Kazunori Suzuki, and other participants at the 1999 WFA and 2000 EFA Conferences and workshops at HKUST, K.U.Leuven, and Strathclyde; and Yasushi Hamao, Nancy Huyghebaert
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public-school program for gifted children in Houston, Texas. Her son was among the first students enrolled in what would later be called the Vanguard program, which stoked creativity and independence in its students and nurtured expansive, outside-the-box thinking. Ray grew so enamored with the curriculum and the community of enthusiastic teachers and parents that she set out to research similar schools around the state with an eye toward writing a book about Texas’s fledgling gifted-education movement
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Virtualization and Its Benefits Virtualization and Its Benefits AITP – Research and Strategy Advisory Group Christine, Leja, CCP, Chair Richard C. Barnier Charles L. Brown, CCP Paul F. Dittmann Paul Koziel Mark Welle J.T. Westermeier, JD, CCP Abstract Virtualization provides many benefits – greater efficiency in CPU utilization, greener IT with less power consumption, better management through central environment control, more availability, reduced project timelines by eliminating hardware
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