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Business Process Orientation: Gaining the E-Business Competitive Advantage - Kevin McCormack and Bill Johnson
Several concepts have developed during the last few years related to business processes, organizations and performance. Process centering, business process orientation (BPO), the horizontal corporation and the reengineered e-corporation have all been proposed as significantly impacting both long and short-term performance of an organization. Specifically, the horizontal integration of supply chains, both internally and externally, has been proposed as the key to competitive success. The resulting process oriented e-corporation is now positioned as a necessity for survival beyond 2000. Using the results from a multi-year research study of manufacturing firms, services firms, and various supply chains both in the US and Europe, this book presents an expanded definition of this concept and a quantitative measurement of business process orientation. Subsequent studies using this instrument to measure the impact of BPO on organizational performance are also discussed in depth. Finally, a BPO benchmarking tool using a maturity model framework is proposed for use in evaluating an organization's progress toward process mastery.
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Iterative Learning Control: Convergence,Robustness and Applications - Chen,Yangquan and Wen,Changyun
A system is called a `repetitive system' when it performs a given task repeatedly. Robotic and functional neuromuscular stimulation systems are examples of such systems. Iterative Learning Control (ILC), which is a relatively new area in the field of control, is proposed to control these types of systems.
Generally speaking, a system under control may have uncertainties in its dynamic model and its environment. One attractive point in ILC is the utilisation of the system repetitiveness to reduce such uncertainties and in turn to improve the control performance by operating the system repeatedly. ILC is a feedforward control strategy that updates, through iterative learning, control signals at every repeated operation. As the number of iterations increases, the system tracking error over the entire operation time period including the transient portion will decrease and eventually vanish. This may not be possible for conventional non-iterative learning control.
This booklet provides readers with a comprehensive coverage of iterative learning control and emphasises both theoretical and practical aspects. It provides some recent developments in ILC convergence and robustness analysis as well as issues in the ILC design.
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Designing and Managing The Supply Chain - D. Simchi-Levi, P. Kaminsky, E. Simchi-Levi
Winner of the Book-of-the-Year Award,
and Outstanding IIE Publication Award
given in 2000 by the Institute of Industrial Engineers.
The book includes many classic and new case studies, numerous examples as well as in-depth analysis of some of the technical issues involved in inventory management, network design and strategic partnering, to name a few. Since many companies view supply chain management as the core of their business strategy, this book is of interest to managers involved in any of the processes that make up the supply chain. It is also an ideal textbook for classes on supply chain management at the undergraduate, masters and MBA levels. The book comes with two computerized games - the Computerized Beer Game and the The RiskPool Game.
For more information: http://www.logic-tools.com/products/books/supplychain.html
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