Turnaround Strategy for Air India

Operational restructuring: an important turnaround strategy

For example, IBM, a world-known computer technology and services company, had approximately 405,000 employees in 1985. In 1992, IBM suffered $5 billion in losses. By 1994, IBM had taken a series of restructuring actions and cut its workforce to 219,207 to “streamline and reduce resource utilized in the business”. IBM began emphasizing consulting services with its 2002 purchase of Pricewaterhous...

India Leads the Way: A Health-Centered Strategy for Air Pollution

The Government of India has recently initiated unprecedented efforts to address the substantial national health burden attribu­ table to ambient and household air pollution. The key first step was the constitution by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MHFW) of an expert committee on a ir pollution and health. This committee put together a landmark report (MHFW 2015) released earlier thi...

Air Pollution in India

Today, air pollution has emerged as a global public health problem and is identified as a major environmental health hazard by agencies such as the World Health Organization (WHO) and governments around the world. An increase in concentration of pollutants both gaseous and solid is among the largest health risk in the world and according to the latest data released by WHO, indoor and outdoor ai...

Turnaround Scheduling

This paper concerns the highly complex task of scheduling large-scale maintenance activities during a plants shutdown or turnaround. We model it as a discrete time-cost tradeoff problem with capacity constraints and individual working shifts for different resource types with a cost function regarding a balanced resource consumption. We introduce and model the problem, give an overview on the la...

Thematic Strategy on air pollution