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Modernizing Military Logistics: The U.S. Marine Corps

instance, a unit might have a surplus of something that another unit needed, but the second had no way to locate the items (Malykh...

PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT AND METRICS

output, benchmarking becomes a good basis tool for an employee. In other words, this employee knows where the "starting point" is,...

Issues Pertaining to Juvenile Court System

This paper discusses the aspects of the juvenile justice system that are working effectively and those aspects that need improveme...

Five Themes for Increasing Performance

Management was first studied during the early years of the industrial revolution. Theories and practices have changed dramatically...

UPS System and Technological Improvements

(McAllister 1999, E08). ABOUT THE UNITED PARCEL SERVICE United Parcel Service was started in 1907 in Seattle Washington and is n...

Gary Pisano's 'Partners Health Care System, Inc.,(B): Cardiac Care Improvement

All of the results of this reengineering, however, were not as positive. The process had not taken into consideration the fact th...

Health Maintenance Organizations' System Improvements

In three pages this paper examines how HMOs can be improved in order to ensure better care quality. Three sources are cited in th...

U.S. Social Security System Improvements

Capital Hill, this tactic will serve to relieve some of the overwhelming pressure that buckles the current system. However, this ...

WISE System Final Project Plan Improvement for Boston's University of Massachusetts

In seven pages this paper examines how the University of Massachusetts at Boston can improve their online university system's stud...

Creativity, Systems Theory, Problem Solving

reapplying existing ideas" (p. 46). Creative thinking is about putting a new twist on something but it will always involve the kno...

Anthropology Definitions and Concepts

humans from animals (McConnell, 1977). Total Social Fact as Suggested by...

So You Think I Drive a Cadillac? by Karen Seccombe

those that work instead of punishing them. The arguments come from the women on welfare. They represent the interest of the impo...

Vertical Integration as a Means of Expansion: the Case of BMD

The writer discusses the case of BMD, a lumber yard company, which attempted to expand and maximize profits by acquiring other com...

Case Study of Focus Plastics

by which to infiltrate an already existent market goes to show that perseverance and a belief in ones performance abilities are tw...

AIDS and HIV and Their Effects on Human Biology

drug users and those receiving blood transfusions. Also in 1983, researchers isolated a virus connected with the disease, a...

New Organization and Employee Change Processes

1993l Tetenbaum, 1998). If people did not know what to do next, for instance, the manager would feel she had failed (Flower, 1993)...

2 Articles on Systems Thinking

pieces of what is being studied . . . . Systems thinking, in contrast, focuses on how the thing being studied interacts with the o...

A Poland Human Resource and Employment Marketing Concept

and human resource development. Background In the late 1990s, the Polish economy and employment statistics declined significant...

Boeing's Systems Thinking and HR

project. There are three ways to contact HR: through a telephone call, e-mail or in person (Proctor, 2005). There are also intran...

Boeing, HRM, and Systems Thinking

of elements that interact to produce behavior-of which it is a part." The key is to remain focused on the interactions, how one t...

Organizational Strategy and Systems Thinking

Training, with the first three stages open to pretty much all sales representatives in the organization. Sales ability is proven t...

GE and Systems Thinking

In five pages this paper examines how General Electric conducts business through application of systems thinking. Five sources ar...

Improvement Processes

been adding a cost. The process of improvement was akin to the introduction of a just in time management system associated with ...

Successes and Failures in the Management of Diplomacy

Zahama (2003) recounts the path that US diplomacy followed in rushing inexorably into abject failure in the public view. The cur...

Religion: Symbols, Systems, Thought and Practice

strong independent Church (based on the assumption of the Corpus Christianum common to all three confessions) through which he des...

3 Technology Questions

has strong a weak forms (Cross et al, 1974). Question 2 The open source software movement may be seen in relation to the way th...

Mini Cooper by BMW

products also needs to be positive Mergy, 2002). There are many models for the maximisation of resources, from the resource based...

The Independence of the Central Bank

way the internalisation of costs for riskily lending is forced onto the financial intermediaries. This creates greater efficiency ...

HHH, Change Management, and Systems Thinking

Connected to the larger system, the hand is an integral part; separated from the system it quite literally is dead and fills none ...

Organizational Creativity Increases

Changing culture cannot be done by edict, but establishing the atmosphere in which a strong, positive culture can take root and gr...