How Management Programs Can Improve Organization Performance

Selecting and Implementing the Best Program for Your Organization

Richard E. Crandall, William Crandall, Richard E. Crandall, William Rick Crandall

• Publisher: Information Age Publishing
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN: 9781623969790, 9781623969806
• eBook ISBN: 9781623969813
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Business General
• Index: Business

All organizations operate in an environment that is rapidly changing. To be successful, the organization must also change. The question is what to change and how. This book will describe in some detail a number of management programs, many of which are known by their three-letter acronyms, such as Just-in-Time (JIT) or Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). A management program is designed to improve an organization's effectiveness and efficiency. However, there are so many management programs it is often difficult for managers to decide which one would be most appropriate for their operation. This book will describe an array of management programs and group them to indicate their primary purpose. The book will also outline a process that will enable managers to select the most appropriate management program to meet their immediate and long-term needs.

Implementing a management program is no small task. It can be expensive, time-consuming, and disruptive of normal operations; therefore, the choice of the management program requires careful selection and implementation. Care must be taken to increase the likelihood of successfully implementing new ventures in all types of organizations – business, nonprofit and governmental agencies. Many ventures fail, or achieve limited success, not because the idea isn't good but because the organization has not adequately prepared its internal capabilities to meet the environmental conditions in which it operates. An important feature of this book is that it can be updated periodically to add new programs and phase out programs no longer relevant.

The book will provide readers with a comprehensive description of the most popular management improvement programs and their primary applications to their organizations. We will discuss the philosophy and principles of these programs and include a discussion on how to use each program to achieve optimum success. A central theme of this book is to not just adopt an improvement program for the sake of adopting it, but to match the improvement program with the specific needs in an organization. In the chapters that follow, we will illustrate how this matching process can be conducted. Above all, we plan the book to be a concise and useful resource to both practitioners and academics. Here is what you can expect in the chapters.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• How Management Programs Can Improve Performance
• How Management Programs Can Improve Performance: Selecting and Implementing the Best Program for Your Organization
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• PREFACE
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• 1: INTRODUCTION TO MANAGEMENT IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMS
• 2: HISTORY OF MANAGEMENT IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMS
• 3: INTRODUCTION TO INDIVIDUAL MANAGEMENT PROGRAMS
• 4A: MATERIALS REQUIREMENTS PLANNING (MRP)
• 4B: MANUFACTURING RESOURCE PLANNING (MRP II)
• 4C: ENTERPRISE RESOURCES PLANNING (ERP)
• 4D: CRITICAL PATH METHOD (CPM)
• 5A: ADVANCED PLANNING AND SCHEDULING (APS)
• 5B: COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING (CIM)
• 5C: MANUFACTURING EXECUTION SYSTEMS (MES)
• 5D: THEORY OF CONSTRAINTS (TOC)
• 5E: WAREHOUSE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS (WMS)
• 6A: JUST-IN-TIME (JIT)
• 6B: LEAN PRODUCTION
• 6C: BUSINESS PROCESS REENGINEERING (BPR)
• 6D: BUSINESS PROCESS OUTSOURCING (BPO)
• 6E: VALUE ANALYSIS AND VALUE ENGINEERING
• 7A: STATISTICAL PROCESS CONTROL (SPC)
• 7B: TOTAL QUALITY CONTROL (TQC)
• 7C: TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT (TQM)
• 7D: SIX SIGMA
• 7E: QUALITY FUNCTION DEPLOYMENT (QFD)
• 8A: ACTIVITY-BASED COSTING (ABC)
• 8B: ACTIVITY-BASED MANAGEMENT (ABM)
• 8C: BALANCED SCORECARD (BSC)
• 8D: KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS (KPI)
• 9A: QUICK RESPONSE (QR)
• 9B: EFFICIENT CONSUME RRESPONSE (ECR)
• 9C: VENDOR MANAGED INVENTORY (VMI)
• 9D: COLLABORATIVE PLANNING, FORECASTING AND REPLENISHMENT (CPFR)
• 10A: MANUFACTURING FLEXIBILITY
• 10B: AGILE MANUFACTURING
• 10C: MASS CUSTOMIZATION
• 11A: INTERNET EDI (I-EDI)
• 11B: BUSINESS TO BUSINESS (B2B)
• 11C: BUSINESS TO CONSUMER (B2C)
• 11D: AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM (AIS)
• 11E: DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM (DSS)
• 11F: INTERORGANIZATIONAL SYSTEMS (IOS)
• 11G: SERVICE-ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE (SOA)
• 11H: SOFTWARE AS A SERVICE (SAAS) AND CLOUD COMPUTING
• 12A: NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT (NPD)
• 12B: SALES AND OPERATIONS PLANNING (S&OP)
• 12C: SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT ( SCM)
• 12D: CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT (CRM)
• 12E: SUPPLIER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT (SRM)
• 12F: PRODUCT LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT (PLM)
• 13A: MANAGEMENT BY OBJECTIVES (MBO)
• 13B: STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT AND STRATEGIC PLANNING
• 13C: KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT (KM)
• 13D: RISK MANAGEMENT
• 13E: VIRTUAL MANAGEMENT OR VIRTUAL ORGANIZATION
• 13F: CHAOS AND COMPLEXITY MANAGEMENT
• 14: SELECTING THE CORRECT MANAGEMENT PROGRAM
• 15: PROGRAM IMPLEMENTATION
• 16: FUTURE OF MANAGEMENT PROGRAMS
• ABOUT THE AUTHORS
• Back Cover