Improving Organizational Effectiveness in Manufacturing

Effectiveness of Lean Manufacturing Technologies on Improving Business Performance: A Study of Indian Manufacturing Industries

Indian manufacturing firms operating in rapidly changing and highly competitive market, over the last few decades, have embraced organization-wide transformation to achieve cultural and operational excellence. In recent years, numerous approaches have been proposed to improve business and manufacturing performance. Lean practices in particular, Total Productive Management (TPM) and Total Qualit...

Effectiveness of Inter-Organizational Systems in Global Manufacturing: Evidence from Industrial Cases in Taiwan

Enterprise Information Systems, such as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, have been applied to integrate business processes within a global manufacturing enterprise. Recently, the interorganizational systems are applied to assist in business data sharing and collaboration among enterprises based on the ERP application. However, their resource requirements and failure rates are high, a...

Ambient Intelligence in Manufacturing: Organizational Implications

There are several references to research projects involving the Ambient Intelligence concept (AmI) in technical publications. These are mainly focused on applications linked to the everyday life of individuals at home, in the street, in the car, in public spaces – and largely related to leisure and to a specific concept of quality of life. But, we wonder, how does the AmI concept apply to the m...

Improving Organizational Mechanisms

The Army Vision recognizes explicitly that in future operations, Army forces will perform missions as part of a larger joint-combinedmultinational force. Given the importance that Army doctrine places on coalition operations, and the capability gap between the U.S. Army and even the most sophisticated partner ground forces, it will be critical to take steps to increase multinational force compa...

Organizational Effectiveness: New Realities