Lean Manufacturing

Lean Manufacturing
Author: Karmen Pažek
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2021-11-03
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1839691492

Lean manufacturing is a process used in production to maximize efficiency and minimize waste by considering sustainability and the environment. This book presents a comprehensive overview of lean manufacturing in various enterprises, including manufacturing, construction, and the fabric and textile industry, among others. Chapters cover such topics as barriers to lean manufacturing, enterprise modeling, lean practices and circular economies, and more.

Information Technology and Systems

Information Technology and Systems
Author: Álvaro Rocha
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 726
Release: 2020-01-30
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3030406903

This book is composed by the papers accepted for presentation and discussion at The 2019 International Conference on Information Technology & Systems (ICITS'20), held at the Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, in Bogotá, Colombia, on 5th to 7th February 2020. ICIST is a global forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss recent findings and innovations, current trends, professional experiences and challenges of modern information technology and systems research, together with their technological development and applications. The main topics covered are: information and knowledge management; organizational models and information systems; software and systems modelling; software systems, architectures, applications and tools; multimedia systems and applications; computer networks, mobility and pervasive systems; intelligent and decision support systems; big data analytics and applications; human–computer interaction; ethics, computers & security; health informatics; information technologies in education.

Multinational Business Service Firms

Multinational Business Service Firms
Author: Joanne Roberts
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2018-10-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0429834551

First published in 1998, this influential volume entered the debate on Foreign Direct Investment in the UK and focuses on the role of Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) in the service rather than manufacturing and primary sectors. While the significance of the service industry had been recognised (exceeding 60% of total GDP in some countries at the time of original publication), the role of FDIs has not. Joanne Roberts thus contributed to a woefully under researched field, covering areas including international trade, the organisational theory of the firm and the UK business sector.

Value Chain Finance

Value Chain Finance
Author: Lucian Peter Christoph Peppelenbos
Publisher: Kit Pub
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Agriculture
ISBN: 9789460220555

Value Chain Finance is a solution to such dilemmas.

El plan de marketing en la PYME

El plan de marketing en la PYME
Author: José María Sainz de Vicuña Ancín
Publisher: ESIC Editorial
Total Pages: 118
Release: 2010-06-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 8473567013

Planificar es decidir hoy lo que vamos a hacer en el futuro. Hay muchas razones para pensar que no sólo merece la pena planificar sino que es totalmente necesario para la supervivencia de las pymes. Una de ellas es que está constatado que quien utiliza adecuadamente la planificación de marketing aumenta la rentabilidad de su empresa. Y lo consigue porque el plan de marketing obliga a hacer una vigilancia más sistemática de la evolución del mercado y aumenta la capacidad de reacción ante los imprevistos. De ahí que el plan de marketing constituye una excelente “hoja de ruta” en la que, tras una importante reflexión y análisis, se plasman los objetivos de mercado que tiene la empresa (qué queremos conseguir), se definen las estrategias comerciales y de marketing (cómo hacerlo), se detallan las acciones que se van a poner en marcha para alcanzarlos (qué haremos) y se acuerda el presupuesto necesario para ello (con qué medios). Por ello, se muestra como un instrumento muy útil de implementación, justificación y control de las decisiones comerciales y de marketing. La principal modificación introducida en esta segunda edición consiste en dedicar el epílogo a resaltar la necesidad de impulsar en las empresas una nueva cultura corporativa como consecuencia de algunas de las profundas transformaciones que se están dando en el mundo, a raíz de la globalización de los mercados. El libro El plan de marketing en la pyme está pensado por y para la pequeña y mediana empresa. Está escrito con la voluntad de ofrecer a la dirección de la pyme un instrumento de trabajo práctico, útil y eficaz que conduzca al lector paso a paso en la elaboración de un plan de marketing. Se trata de un libro de divulgación, cuya fuerza reside en haber incorporado dos planes de marketing reales (el de SDV Consultores y el de Coopaman) de dos empresas representativas de las pymes (que suponen el 99,12% del total). La proximidad de los casos expuestos garantiza una lectura más interesante para gran parte de los gestores de pymes, ya que el 5,18% de las empresas son pequeñas y el 93,94% restante son microempresas. En las primeras páginas del libro encontrará diversas opiniones de profesionales, que avalan la idoneidad de este libro para las pymes. Índice Prólogo.- Opiniones de profesionales sobre el libro.- Presentación.- Parte I: Presentación del plan de marketing.- Aportación del marketing a la PYME.- Importancia del plan de marketing para la PYME.- Parte II: Cómo tener éxito con su plan de marketing.- Cómo una PYME puede elaborar, con éxito, su plan de marketing.- Cómo hacer el seguimiento y el control del plan de marketing.- El plan de marketing de SDV Consultores.- El plan de marketing en una empresa industrial.- Epílogo: Hacia una nueva cultura corporativa.- Bibliografía.

Wired for Innovation

Wired for Innovation
Author: Erik Brynjolfsson
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2009-09-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0262258072

Two experts on the information economy explore the true economic value of technology and innovation. A wave of business innovation is driving the productivity resurgence in the U.S. economy. In Wired for Innovation, Erik Brynjolfsson and Adam Saunders describe how information technology directly or indirectly created this productivity explosion, reversing decades of slow growth. They argue that the companies with the highest level of returns to their technology investment are doing more than just buying technology; they are inventing new forms of organizational capital to become digital organizations. These innovations include a cluster of organizational and business-process changes, including broader sharing of information, decentralized decision-making, linking pay and promotions to performance, pruning of non-core products and processes, and greater investments in training and education. Innovation continues through booms and busts. This book provides an essential guide for policy makers and economists who need to understand how information technology is transforming the economy and how it will create value in the coming decade.

The Economic Geography Reader

The Economic Geography Reader
Author: John Bryson
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 506
Release: 1999-07-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Focusing on the evolving geography of the advanced capitalist economies of Europe, North America, and the Pacific Rim, this comparative international reader presents some relevant papers published in this discipline. The text can be read either as continuous prose with each article chosen and positioned to present students with a cumulative understanding of economic change, or as a collection of articles which can be read in any order. It is divided into five sections: an introduction to economic geography, the economy in transition, spaces of production, spaces of consumption, and work, employment and society.