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Cari koleksi dengan cepat sesuai kebutuhan Anda.Most executives harbour misconceptions about the many quality initiatives that have Preface xvi bombarded US companies over the past two decades. This book will clarify these misconceptions. The first, and most important, misconception to dispel is that Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) only applies to engineering designs. Given the name Design for Six Sigma, this confusion is understandable but cost…
The long-term survival of a company is dependent on how knowledgeable its controllers and senior managers are about its costs. Do the costs accurately reflect the resources consumed by the business processes? Can the cost information generated by its financial systems be trusted to make key management decisions? In Designing Strategic Cost Systems, recognized business planning and cost manageme…
We decided to write this book while traveling together on a business trip. Returning from a meeting with a supplier whom we wanted to place on kanban scheduling, we were discussing how resistant the supplier had been to the idea. Our discussion migrated to how most companies and individuals were resistant at first, but that they soon came on board once they understood the benefits of using kanb…
This book is the result of several years of research including my dissertation for the Universidad Complutense doctoral program (entitled Las relaciones interamericanas ante la lucha contra la droga, or ?Inter-American Relations in the War Against Drugs,? 1994), and the doctorate degree conferred on me by the Agencia Española de Cooperación?s program Problemas y perspectives en la integració…