The performance in many companies is limited through bottlenecks in manufacturing and assembly processes. For this reason, bottlenecks are often the starting point of improvement initiatives. This paper presents a visual approach for identification and evaluation of bottlenecks to ease the...

This paper presents an exposition of the role of knowledge, empiricism within the domain of knowledge, and the role of judgment in decision-making and risk management. The concept of risk management is explained with an example of programme management for infrastructure project delivery. Drawing...

The present volatile environment demands new ways of thinking and new tools for project planning, appraisal, and investment decisions for large scale port infrastructures. This paper proposes real options-based adaptive port planning which provides a framework for the planner to first identify...

The main aim of this paper is to look for a causal impact of transport investment activity on employment and on GDP through an empirical analysis, and to understand whether or not investments are really important for the economy. The results of the empirical investigation demonstrate the...

This paper illustrates the findings of a project about the impact of digital technology on services. In this paper, we discuss the relevant literature in the service management and business networking fields, and our research findings from: 1) a multi-industry study for a government agency...

The purpose of this article is to introduce a new cost management and decision support model. The current cost monitoring models act as real-time cost calculators rather than as decision support tools. The model presented in this study can monitor and analyse the costs in real-time. This will...

Management training and development have been recognised as a critical antecedent for the competitiveness of medium-sized enterprises given their key role in nurturing firms' innovation capabilities. There is broad empirical evidence, however, showing that such companies are reluctant to make...

Innovation management has been a subject of immense concern to researchers. Both continuity and change aspects in this context have been scrutinised at length, but management of continuity together with change has only recently been gaining some attention. This paper contributes to the...

Telecommunication companies are constantly working on supporting the increasing subscriber base by maintaining and upgrading the capacity levels of their back-end systems. In this context, a major local Telecom operator is planning to undertake a major capacity expansion project in its value...

Indian electricity sector constitutes a contrast - a highly sophisticated modern generation and transmission system, but a very poor distribution system in several utilities. Despite the realisation of the importance of the distribution sector, the performances of Indian distribution utilities...