Kategoria BISAC: Business & Economics >> Operations Research

Metrics: How to Improve Key Business Resultsprovides that explanation and the tools you'll need to make your organization more effective. Not only does the book...

This handbook covers DEA topics that are extensively used and solidly based. The purpose of the handbook is to (1) describe and elucidate the state of the field and (2), where appropriate, extend the frontier of DEA research. It defines the state-of-the-art of DEA methodology and its uses. This handbook is intended to represent a milestone in the progression of DEA. Written by experts, who are generally major contributors to the topics to be covered, it includes a comprehensive review and discussion of basic DEA models, which, in the present issue extensions to the basic DEA methods, and a...

Decision makers in business and government are more reliant than ever on measurements, such as business performance indicators, bond ratings, Six-Sigma indicators, stock ratings, opinion polls, and market research. Yet many popular statistical and business books and courses relating to measurement are based on flawed principles, leading managers to the wrong conclusions--and ultimately, the wrong decisions. "misLeading Indicators: How to Reliably Measure Your Business" provides something unique and invaluable: trustworthy tools for judging measurements.

Each chapter illustrates the four...

The supply chain is at the heart of every successful business organization's decision-making process. This textbook explains how to create a winning supply chain management strategy by spotlighting how senior executives in European and US companies have turned their supply chains into strategic weapons designed to convert threats, risks, and outside pressures into competitive advantages.

Strategic Supply Chain Management contains thirteen real-world cases, all of which have been field researched by a top author team. Illuminating the real dilemmas faced by executives, this book provides...