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Applied Benchmarking for Competitiveness : A Guide for SME Owner/Managers
- 166 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub
Applied Benchmarking for Competitiveness : A Guide for SME Owner/Managers
About this book
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Business DevelopmentIndex
BusinessTable of contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Foreword
- 1: Applied Benchmarking For Competitiveness
- 2: The Diagnosis: Qualitative & Quantitative Benchmarking
- 3: The Medicine: A World Class Business Toolkit
- 4: First Steps
- 5: War on Waste – The First Skirmish
- 6: People & Teams
- 7: The Work Continues
- 8: Lead-Time Reduction
- 9: Production Control Systems
- 10: Saving Time
- 11: Maintenance
- 12: Practical Quality
- 13: Teams & Team-Building - Employee Involvement
- 14: World Class Sales
- 15: Financial Management
- 16: Supply Chain & Logistics
- 17: Innovation & Design
- 18: ABC & Strategy – Bringing it all Together
- 19: Implementation
- 20: “To Infinity & Beyond”
- 21: Process Benchmarking
- 22: The Five Ss
- 23: Total Productive Maintenance
- 24: Overall Equipment Efficiency
- 25: Six Sigma
- 26: Business Excellence
- 27: Value Management, Analysis & Engineering
- 28: Lean Production
- 29: Target Cost Management
- 30: The Big Picture
- Appendix I: Self Assessment Questionnaire
- Appendix II: Facilitated Assessment & Comparison Tools
- Appendix III: Sources of Further Information
- About the Authors
- Oak Tree Press
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