Action learning on a company‐wide basis requires the continuing and determined commitment of the topmost line managers … if it is to succeed. Action learning as an approach to management development is now beginning to replace conventional … involvement in action learning programmes for British Rail, Dow Corning, DuPont, AIB, Grand Metropolitan and MY Dart is given and …

introducing the idea of a quality-based learning curve, this paper links the previously disjoint literatures of quality control … and learning curves to explain why high quality and low costs need not be inconsistent. When costs are affected by a … quality-based learning curve, product quality favorably influences the rate of cost reduction due to learning. Thus, costs …

The purpose of this paper is to determine the type of company which can benefit from incorporating learning curve … analysis into its medium-term capacity planning procedures and the effect of information aggregation on learning curve capacity … characteristics. Four production characteristic variables are investigated: (1) average learning rate, (2) run-time variance, (3 …

Production and capacity expansion decisions are difficult to analyze when there is learning. Later production is less … models are presented for optimizing coordinated production and capacity expansion plans in the face of such learning effects …