Evidence from the literature on cellular manufacturing suggests that shops configured as manufacturing cells perform poorly compared to job shops. However, cellular shops, being conducive to the use of teams in the assignment of production activities, have the potential to yield higher...

One of the most challenging aspects of technology management is the selection of research and development (R&D) projects from among a group of proposals. This paper introduces an interactive, user-friendly decision support system for evaluating and ranking R&D projects and demonstrates its...

In this article we offer Excel as an introductory tool to high end business intelligence (BI) and decision support system (DSS) applications. Because it is ubiquitous, Excel can be used by all managers and business students for exploratory data analysis. We provide three key points in this...