Industrial Management & Data Systems: Volume 96 Issue 8

The road ahead ‐ partnership or conflict?

Dennis Briggs

Looks at the pressures on the automotive component industry today and how it is reacting to this. Posits that although all the motor manufacturers require different responses from…

A proposed model for evaluating a company’s operations profile

Ruth A. Kasul, Jaideep G. Motwani

Presents an evaluative model that can be used as a framework by management of organizations to evaluate their company’s operations profile. By means of a case study, the authors…

Network‐based project planning and scheduling

Homayoun Khamooshi

Discusses the twofold purpose of this study, first to introduce a number of measures devised to be used in comparing and evaluating two schedules for the same project, second to…

Industry scenarios: short‐termism revealed

David Mercer

Discusses research, derived from scenarios describing the future of a wide range of industry sectors as developed by managers and professionals from more than 150 large…