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Tech buyouts analysis and trends
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
In the backdrop of the dotcom bubble burst, companies cleaned up the excesses of the nineties and are more agile and efficient than ever before. However, companies face tremendous pressure to improve shareholder returns. ...
Pharmacies and medication adherence : a customer-oriented opportunity analysis
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
Medication non-adherence is one of the most costly and difficult problems in healthcare today. In the United States alone, half of the 3.5 billion prescriptions dispensed are not taken as prescribed, costing our healthcare ...
Introducing fundamental changes to a service delivery model : "lessons from a financial advisory organization"
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
Trends change, companies grow, merge and folds, things occur at an unusually rapid pace and clients' expectations of services value and costs take new form every day. The information for this research was gathered mainly ...
Systems level approach to process improvement initiatives in a semiconductor manufacturing environment
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
Many successful companies have difficulty implementing large-scale change initiatives such as Lean, Six Sigma, outsourcing or Advanced Process Control. This can often be due to the fact that they treat large-scale improvement ...
An in-depth study of the emergence of mini-maestro in supply chain governance and their influence to logistics industry
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
Faced with declining margins, many large trading firms have expanded their scopes of sourcing and supplying goods, to include the management of the supply chains and inventories as a mean to improve the operational ...
The competitive advantage : a case study of Taiwan's semiconductor industry
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
As the world enters into the twenty-first century, technology is now more than ever the key factor in the promotion of industrial development and economic growth. Countries must carry out their industrial technology ...
Implementing various lean methodologies and creating a business development plan at an ABB Greenfield site
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)
As part of its strategic initiatives, ABB inaugurated a 100,000 sq-m campus for an Engineering, Sourcing, and Manufacturing Operations center in San Luis Potosi (SLP), Mexico in May 2008. The ramp-up of the SLP site ...
A framework for developing, manufacturing, and sourcing trucks & equipment in a global fluid management industry
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)
Selecting and executing the optimal strategy for developing new products is a non trivial task, especially for low volume, high complexity products in a highly volatile global industry such as Fluid Management. At Fluid ...
Designing a supply chain for a foreign Greenfield facility
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)
ABB Schweiz AG has experienced substantial growth in demand for the innovative energy management and conversion products designed and assembled by the Medium Voltage Automation Products Division. This demand has fully ...
Improving forecast accuracy and use
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)