The quest for leaner asset management via interoperability

... exe- cuting the plan were tied in: various plant scheduling techniques for the inside factory and supplier scheduling for the outside factory — the suppliers. These developments resulted in the second ... and the one to follow, come from APICS The Educa- tional Society for Resource Management. APICS is the leading pro- fessional society in this field, and its dictionary h...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 07:20

... Breaking through the catch-22, overcoming the people problems, making it happen—these are the challenges. That’s the bad news. The good news is there’s a way to meet these challenges. There’s no mystery ... company will not be able to follow the Proven Path. They may pay it lip service. They may pretend they’re following it. But they can’t. They don’t have the horses. We call th...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 07:20

... a consensus among the management team. Set the vision state- ment and the performance goals. Do the cost/benefit analysis. Make sure this is the direction the company wants to go. Then commit to the project. 2. ... better than they ever could before. Keep those ABC’s of implementation firmly in mind: the C item is the computer; the B item is the data; the A item is th...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 07:20

... the club’s management team, their desires for quality will be continually frustrated. Summary The Quest for Remarkable Service is a journey requiring the continual disciplined attention of management ... Manager and is the basis for the GM’s performance appraisal. > A Work Plan for each department head for the same 12 months. These plans lay out measurable acc...

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 23:20

... between the two presidents and that therefore, without further ado, the light it emitted traveled the same distance to reach each of them. Since the speed of the emitted light to the left and to the ... from the other, they cancel each other out. (In fact, this is the idea behind fancy noise-eliminating headphones—they measure the shape of the incoming sound wave an...

Ngày tải lên: 25/01/2014, 16:20

... which means they can deduct the cost in the year they occur, lowing the income basis for taxes owed. The alternative would be to consider them a capital investment, allowing only part of the cost ... built, changing the assumptions used by the traffic planners and their models. Traffic increases as home buyers go further out to optimize the value of the house versus t...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 14:20

... In the extreme cases where there is no term premium, or where investors are infinitely risk-averse, the myopic demand for long- term bonds is zero and all bond demand is accounted for by the ... and evaluate the conventional wisdom. We show that investors may hold long-term bonds for two reasons. First, if long-term bonds offer a term premium then investors may hold them for s...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 07:20

... remaining, they want the ball in their hands. Others end up heroes by accident. The ball nds them with time running out. They simply do what comes naturally—focus on the rim and shoot for the victory. ... just before the nal horn sounds. The ball oats through the air for only a second or two. But to the players and fans, it can seem like a lifetime. When the shot...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 18:20

... issues of form, then it might be argued that the actual improvement in the students’ control of the forms of the English language for the purposes of writing was somewhat better than the very ... take the Test (at their own expense), before they submitted their application for professional recognition or for a permanent residence visa. While some of these students were...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 21:21

... Despite the limitations in the information content of sovereign debt ratings, the long time span of S&P ratings provides useful insights about the evolution of asset safety (Table 3.1): • The ... issuers, and they did not suciently dierentiate across assets with dier- ent underlying qualities. 6 See also Gaillard (2011). 7 For a more detailed discussion of the sa...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 08:20