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quantitative and involve rigorous statistical analyses. This paper describes an application of a systems approach known as the …
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Presents, from a systemic perspective, an examination and discussion of performance measurement, performance indicators and associated improvement initiatives, as typically applied in public sector organisations. Such mechanisms are usually implemented as a causal loop which is established...
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Purpose – The aim of this paper is to analyse enterprise policy in the United Kingdom (UK), in relation to decisions … enterprise policy‐making and policy delivery alongside the interests of the businesses they seek to serve and the academics who … considers whether an all‐embracing enterprise strategy – with clear ownership and shared commitment – is a realistic alternative …
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Contends that parallel production sub‐systems may be cost effective and, in some cases, they are the only technically … sub‐systems are likely to be most cost effective when placed in upstream operations, where the leverage effect on output … quality is considerably higher. Although typical research in parallel systems assumes a known distribution to estimate the …
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) since the 1980s in the following three aspects. First, China is determined to upgrade quality management at the enterprise … level by a top‐down approach. The efforts of the PRC Government in establishing quality systems to comply with international … implementation level, the development of TQM and other quality systems is found to be less than satisfactory. A brief review of major …
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Organizational forms have evolved over the decades. Organizational design reflects the systems view, which considers …
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the particular problems that arise when specifying and designing automated systems for the healthcare industry and how …
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Summarises the key areas of research presented at the WOSC 2002 conference including aerospace, organic growth and medical applications. Although the work presented had little immediate practical application in the field of robotics it is clear that the future will see much of the present work...
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systems. Computer vision is often required to provide data for the grasping of a target. Using a vision system for grasping of …
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