12th April 2006
ABSTRACT
For this article, I selected a sector that has not been covered by authors and could hardly be found in books for Operations Management. I find this topic's importance and significance to the global economy, and the Western, in particular, ver...
27th March 2006
Small businesses, also known as SMEs (Small and Medium-size Enterprises) follow, in general, the following phases of lifecycle: (1) launch, (2) initial development and growth, (3) consolidation and growth, and (4) maturity or exit. There are some characte...
27th March 2006
Generally speaking, economies of scale is about the benefits gained by the production of large volume of a product, while economies of scope is linked to benefits gained by producing a wide variety of products by efficiently utilising the same Operations....
23rd March 2006
MEASUREMENTS AND INCENTIVES THAT SUPPORT INNOVATION
ABSTRACT
This paper focuses on the practical elements and tools that will make innovation work. If we want to encourage behaviour, in general, we must communicate our expectations very explicitly to ...
23rd March 2006
Why is it hard to innovate? what are the obstacles for innovation? Why innovation success rate is so little? This paper is aimed at discussing these questions on an academic level.
Referring to innovation as a change, sometime a major change, I shall f...