Restoring Our Competitive Edge

Restoring Our Competitive Edge
Author: Robert H. Hayes
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 448
Release: 1984-06-25
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Recommends a manufacturing strategy that develops production facilities, uses appropriate management systems, and establishes firm relationships with suppliers.

Enabling Manufacturing Competitiveness and Economic Sustainability

Enabling Manufacturing Competitiveness and Economic Sustainability
Author: Hoda A. ElMaraghy
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 674
Release: 2011-09-29
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3642238602

The changing manufacturing environment requires more responsive and adaptable manufacturing systems. The theme of the 4th International Conference on Changeable, Agile, Reconfigurable and Virtual production (CARV2011) is “Enabling Manufacturing Competitiveness and Economic Sustainability”. Leading edge research and best implementation practices and experiences, which address these important issues and challenges, are presented. The proceedings include advances in manufacturing systems design, planning, evaluation, control and evolving paradigms such as mass customization, personalization, changeability, re-configurability and flexibility. New and important concepts such as the dynamic product families and platforms, co-evolution of products and systems, and methods for enhancing manufacturing systems’ economic sustainability and prolonging their life to produce more than one product generation are treated. Enablers of change in manufacturing systems, production volume and capability scalability and managing the volatility of markets, competition among global enterprises and the increasing complexity of products, manufacturing systems and management strategies are discussed. Industry challenges and future directions for research and development needed to help both practitioners and academicians are presented.

Managing Frontiers in Competitive Intelligence

Managing Frontiers in Competitive Intelligence
Author: Craig S. Fleisher
Publisher: Praeger
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2001
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1567203841

Annotation Examines what's new and what's coming in the tools and techniques of competitive intelligence.

Manufacturing Systems and Technologies for the New Frontier

Manufacturing Systems and Technologies for the New Frontier
Author: Fumihiko Kimura
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 555
Release: 2008-05-19
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1848002661

Collected here are 112 papers concerned with new directions in manufacturing systems, given at the 41st CIRP Conference on Manufacturing Systems. The high-quality material includes reports of work from both scientific and engineering standpoints.

Industrial Development in a Frontier Economy

Industrial Development in a Frontier Economy
Author: Yovanna Pineda
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2009
Genre: History
ISBN: 0804759839

Industrial Development in a Frontier Economy is pioneering microanalysis of 59 Argentinean corporations between 1890 and 1930 that explains Argentina's failure to develop an efficient manufacturing sector, even as countries in similar circumstances successfully modernized.

Pursuing the Endless Frontier

Pursuing the Endless Frontier
Author: Charles M. Vest
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2011-09-30
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780262250603

The former president of MIT discusses challenges and policy issues confronting academia, science and technology, and the world at large. In his fourteen years as president of MIT, Charles Vest worked continuously to realize his vision of rebuilding America's trust in science and technology. In a time when the federal government dramatically reduced its funding of academic research programs and industry shifted its R&D resources into the short-term product-development process, Vest called for new partnerships with business and government. He called for universities to meet the intellectual challenges posed by the innovation-driven, globally connected needs of industry even as he reaffirmed basic academic values and the continuing need for longer-term scientific inquiry. In Pursuing the Endless Frontier, Vest addresses these and other issues in a series of essays written during his tenure as president of MIT. He discusses the research university's need to shift to a broader, more international outlook, the value of diversity in the academic community, the greater leadership role for faculty outside the classroom, and the boundless opportunity of new scientific and technological developments even when coupled with financial constraints. In the provocative essay "What We Don't Know," Vest reminds us of what he calls "the most critical point of all," that science is driven by a deep human need to understand nature, to answer the "big questions"—that what we don't know is more important than what we do. In another essay, on the future of MIT, he celebrates MIT's strengths as being extraordinarily well-suited to the needs of an era of unprecedented change in science and technology. In "Disturbing the Educational Universe: Universities in the Digital Age—Dinosaurs or Prometheans," he describes MIT's innovative OpenCourseWare initiative, which builds on the fundamental nature of the Internet as an enabling and liberating technology. Vest, who is stepping down from MIT's presidency in the fall of 2004, writes with clarity and insight about the issues facing academic institutions in the twenty-first century. His essays in Pursuing the Endless Frontier offer inspiration to educators and researchers seeking the way forward.

Frontier Information Technology and Systems Research in Cooperative Economics

Frontier Information Technology and Systems Research in Cooperative Economics
Author: Aleksei V. Bogoviz
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 1072
Release: 2020-09-24
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3030578313

This book is the very first book-length study devoted to the advances in technological development and systems research in cooperative economics. The chapters provide, first of all, a coherent framework for understanding and applying the concepts and approaches of complexity and systems science for the advanced study of cooperative networks and particular cooperative enterprises and communities. Second, the book serves as a unique source of reliable information on the frontier information technologies available for the production, consumer, credit, and agricultural cooperative enterprises, discussing predominant strategies, potential drivers of change, and responses to complex problems. Given the diverse range of backgrounds and advanced research results, researchers, decision-makers, and stakeholders from all fields of cooperative economics in any country of the world will undoubtedly benefit from this book.

Innovation and Growth Chasing a Moving Frontier

Innovation and Growth Chasing a Moving Frontier
Author: The World Bank
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2009-11-20
Genre:
ISBN: 9264073973

In this volume, the OECD and the World Bank jointly take stock of how globalisation is posing new challenges for innovation and growth in both developed and developing countries, and how countries are coping with them.