Authors:Nancy Hyer, Urban Wemmerlov,
Publisher: Productivity Press
Keywords: manufacturing, cellular, competing, factory, reorganizing
Number of Pages: 770
Published: 2002
List price: $109.95
ISBN-10: 1563272288
ISBN-13: 9781563272288

Cellular manufacturing principles, applied to either administrative work or production, are fundamental building blocks for lean and quick response organizations. Reorganizing the Factory is the definitive reference book in this important area. Reorganizing work processes into cells has helped many organizations streamline operations, shorten lead times, increase quality, and lower costs. Cellular manufacturing is a powerful concept that is simple to understand; however, its ultimate success depends on deciding where cells fit into your organization, and then applying the know-how to de

Author: Gordon Nathaniel Lederman
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Keywords: contributions, military, studies, nichols, goldwater, joint, chiefs, staff, reorganizing
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 1999-11-30
List price: $115.00
ISBN-10: 0313310858
ISBN-13: 9780313310850

The Goldwater-Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 1986 is the most important legislation affecting U.S. national defense in the last 50 years. This act resulted from frustration in Congress and among certain military officers concerning what they believed to be the poor quality of military advice available to civilian decision-makers. It also derived from the U.S. military’s perceived inability to conduct successful "joint" or multi-service operations. The Act, passed after four years of legislative debate, designated the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff as the princ

Author: Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld
Publisher: JAI Press
Keywords: care, health, delivery, models, research, sociology, managed, volume, systems, reorganizing, problems
Number of Pages: 230
Published: 2003-12-09
List price: $112.00
ISBN-10: 0762310693
ISBN-13: 9780762310692

This volume deals with the reorganizing of health care delivery systems: problems of managed care and other models of health care delivery. Issues of how to best organize a health care delivery system are not new, but the amount of interest in this topic in the US (as well as in other countries) has grown in recent decades. Reorganizing health care delivery systems is a concern of many systems of the world, and this volume contains some papers from countries other than the US, although the majority of the papers do relate issues to the US health care delivery system. While most papers relate t