Flexibility with Business Excellence in the Knowledge Economy
Year 2007
ISBN : 81-903397-7-X Table of contents Theme - I: Business Excellence - Quality and Productivity Management Chapter 1: Implications of flexibility for enterprises to compete in the global economy through “Relevant Management (RM)” David J. Sumanth Chapter 2: Academic excellence in technical education through accreditation and quality award model Prem Vrat Chapter 3: Japan's health-care quality and application of real options to the flexible decision-making strategy for biotech start-ups Takao Fujiwara Chapter 4: Deming model and the pursuit of excellence S. K. Breja, D. K. Banwet, K. C. Iyer Chapter 5: Managing continuity and change: A strategic approach to sustainable business excellence Saboohi Nasim, Sushil Chapter 6: Is India poised for quality management education? Deepak Dogra, SK Kapoor Chapter 7: Productivity and value chain management K. M. Mital, Vivek Mital Chapter 8: Importance of inventory management in quality control Priti Mishra, N.C. Jain, Mukesh Pandey Chapter 9: An efficient algorithm for the machine/part grouping problem considering machines overloading and important production parameters A R Dixit, P K Mishra Chapter 10: Knowledge base quality model for flexible reverse logistics system Subhash Wadhwa, Jitendra Madaan Theme - II: Enterprise Flexibility Chapter 11: Mapping flexibility in corporate strategy: A westside story Ranjan Chaudhuri Chapter 12: Managing flexibility in construction PROJECTS Ashok K. Pundir, L. Ganapathy, N. Sambandam Chapter 13: Strategies for managing change in Indian industry Sumit Jain, R.K. Garg Chapter 14: Enterprise flexibility – A paradigm shift Yasmeen Ansari Chapter 15: Positioning brand “Maruti”: ethical and culturally adaptive approach Mahim Sagar, Deepali Singh, D.P. Agrawal Chapter 16: A method of project selection based on capital asset pricing theories in a framework of mean-semi deviation behavior for petroleum projects Babak Jafarizadeh Chapter 17: A systematic method of project selection based on risk and return criteria and according to the mean-semi deviation behavioral hypothesis Babak Jafarizadeh Chapter 18: Motives of strategic alliances formation: Indian perspective Dinesh Likhi Chapter 19: Towards a strategic framework for effective E-governance P. K. Suri, Sushil Chapter 20: Globalisation in appliance industry a case study of electrolux ab and whirlpool corporation Shyam Sethi Chapter 21: International joint ventures create synergy by flexibility in processes and operations Dileep Singh, Geetika Theme - III: Flexibility in Business Processes Chapter 22: Toward agile and resilient large-scale systems: Adaptive robust national/international infrastructure S. Massoud Amin, Barry M. Horowitz Chapter 23: Developing strategic flexibility for moving towards business excellence – analyzing the role of human resource flexibility in select Indian companies Vidhu Shekhar Jha, Himanshu Joshi Chapter 24: Business process reengineering - To enable bottom-up participation in a top down reform programme with the role of information technology, creativity and human resources Ajay Kumar Varshney Chapter 25: Performance enhancement through creative flexibility R C Pathak, H D Patil, Rajesh Pathak Chapter 26: Flexibilities in HR system: Lessons from corporate Vimal Babu, Nripendra Singh Chapter 27: HFMS: A new concept in the context of flexible manufacturing systems Tilak Raj, Ravi Shankar, M. Suhaib, R.A. Khan Chapter 28: Some dimensions of flexibility in FMS Tilak Raj, Ravi Shankar, M. Suhaib, R.A. Khan Chapter 29: Two phase heuristic based approach of cell formation in cellular manufacturing system A. R. Dixit, P. K. Mishra Chapter 30: An approach to intelligent modeling of customer behavior and decision support in complex marketing: Multi agent systems Divya Rohatgi Chapter 31: Model of employment status choice of engineering/management students; opportunity cost/career flexibility theory (in Indian perspective) S.K. Poddar, S. K Jain Chapter 32: Flexibility in power sector distribution system J. Katyayani, B. Sudhir Theme - IV: Flexibility in Supply Chain Management Chapter 33: Flexibility in global supply chain: A review of perspectives Pravin Kumar, Ravi Shankar, Surendra S. Yadav Chapter 34: Modeling bullwhip effect and understanding the role of information sharing Abid Haleem, Avanish Kaushik, Sanjay Kumar Chapter 35: A flexible framework to evaluate supply chain performance Omkarprasad S. Vaidya, Sushil Kumar Chapter 36: Reverse supply chain - Current practices in India and devlopend countries – A detailed study V K Gupta Chapter 37: E-business in supply chain management Vishwajit D. Patil, Ravindra Mohan Chapter 38: Global financial supply chains – An integer programming formulation Sushil Gupta Chapter 39: Analyzing supply chain configuration of food and drink retail company Apratul Chandra Shukla Chapter 40: Problems, challenges & opportunities of logistics with special reference to Indian economy S. S. Mishra, A. Upadhyaya, Biranchi N. Swar Chapter 41: Sales promotion practices in apparel retail sector and challenges ahead Preeta Vyas, Mahim Sagar Chapter 42: Flexible strategic framework for managing continuity and change in reverse supply chain in the battery industry - Study of lead Acid batteries and NI Cd batteries for automotive, computers and mobile phones V K Gupta Theme - V: Knowledge Economy Chapter 43: Viability of the knowledge based economic paradigm: A case study of the Indian economy Ashish Dwivedi Chapter 44: Managerial sentiment and project selection A. Arunachalam, Edward R. Lawrence, Arun J. Prakash Chapter 45: Knowledge enterprises, knowledge economies, knowledge divide and knowledge societies: A conceptual framework Surinder Batra Chapter 46: Engineering moderator to universal knowledge moderator for moderating collaborative projects A. K. Choudhary, J. A. Harding, H. K. Lin Chapter 47: Leveraging human capital for competitive edge in knowledge intensive environment Mala Agarwal, Ruchi Rana Chapter 48: System conceptualization for IT policy at industry level P.K. Baboo Chapter 49: Knowledge sharing in professional institutions-A case study B. B. Das, Binkey Srivastava Chapter 50: Efficient association rule mining for market basket analysis A. Shrivastava, R. Sahu Chapter 51: Technology strategy for transformation: Case of sona koyo steering systems Jyoti S. A. Bhat, S. K. Breja, K. Bhattcharjee Chapter 52: Information technology: Adoption and implementation in small scale industries in India G. P. Sahu, P. Dwivedi Theme - VI: Innovation and Knowledge Management Chapter 53: Mathematical models for diffusion of dry technology in Indian cement industry V.B. Gupta, Ashok Kumar, S.T. Venkatesan, A. K. Gupta Chapter 54: An innovative approach towards the computer aided multi-goal facilities problem considering the shifting cost of machine Pushyamitra Mishra, V.K. khare, Mukesh Pandey Chapter 55: Patents as a knowledge source in new product development Narender Singh, Gopa B. Choudhury, Anirvan Sircar Chapter 56: Measuring the innovation process Ashish Soti Chapter 57: A survey on web page classification techniques S. K. Chaturvedii, D. K. Swami, R. C. Jain Chapter 58: Organizational intelligence: A success criteria in the rapidly changing and highly competitive environment of the knowledge intensive organizations Ruchi Rana, Anita Mohindra Chapter 59: Leveraging knowledge through knowledge management in knowledge intensive organizations Mala Agarwal, Ruchi Rana Chapter 60: Implementing knowledge management in corporations Vidya Sekhri, A. Dash, A. R. Mohanty Chapter 61: Knowledge management and e-learning: Face of globalization Rahul Goswami Chapter 62: Overview on worldwide recent developments in wind power technology Prashant Baredar, V.K. Sethi, Mukesh Pandey Chapter 63: Km approach flexible decisions in reverse enterprise system Subhash Wadhwa, Jitendra Madaan Theme - VII: Competitiveness and Business Performance Management Chapter 64: Evaluating trade competitiveness: Case of telecom industry in India Momaya K., Goyal A. Chapter 65: Designing aknowledge management strategy for retailing business performances Preeti Singh, Shyam Narayan, Santosh Rangnekar Chapter 66: Corporate responsibility and competitiveness Sudhi Ranjan Dash, Jitarani Udgata Chapter 67: Contextual approach in product development process Sandeep Srivastava, Deepali Singh Chapter 68: Balanced scorecard and its deployment experience in BSNL S.B. Khare Chapter 69: Communities of practice: A strategic tool to improve organizational performance G B Choudhry, Ruchi Rana, Pramila Dangwal Chapter 70: Corporate success and core competence: A study of two IT organizations Anjana Kak Chapter 71: Promise made promise kept – Velocity improving CSMM score for provisioning Arun Malik, Deepak Kulshrestha Chapter 72: Business process re-engineering (BPR) and technology interception the continuum in the e-government application cauldron Anil Panikar, G. Jacob Victor, Vishnu Krishna Kanhere, Sadaf Tanveer, Raghvendra Prasad Chapter 73: Perspectives of flexibility and competitiveness in telecom industry Manoj K. Sharma, Pramod K. Jain Top |