Focused Operations Management

Preface.
<p>Acknowledgements.</p>
<p>About the Authors.</p>
<p>Part&nbsp;I: The Dynamic Management Environment.</p>
<p>Chapter 1. The Modern Business Environment.</p>
<p>Chapter 2. &nbsp; Principles of Management in the Dynamic Environment.</p>
<p>Chapter 3. The Pareto Rule, the Focusing Table and the Focusing Matrix.</p>
<p>Part&nbsp;II: New Approaches in Management.</p>
<p>Chapter 4. Managing the System by its Constraints.</p>
<p>Chapter 5. Management by Constraints in a Bottleneck Environment.</p>
<p>Chapter 6. Managing by Constraints when the Market is the Constraint.</p>
<p>Chapter 7. Focused Current Reality Tree.</p>
<p>Chapter 8. Resolving Managerial Conflicts.</p>
<p>Chapter 9. The "Efficiencies Syndrome.</p>
<p>Chapter 10. The "Evils" of Long Response Times.</p>
<p>Chapter 11. Reducing Response Times.</p>
<p>Chapter 12. The Complete Kit Concept.</p>
<p>Chapter 13. Performance Measures and Managerial Control.</p>
<p>Chapter 14. The Effects of Fluctuations, Variability and Uncertainty on the System.</p>
<p>Chapter 15. The Evils of Traditional Cost Accounting.</p>
<p>Chapter 16. Market, Costing, and Pricing Considerations in Decision Making Processes.</p>
<p>Chapter 17. Quality Management and Process Control.</p>
<p>Part&nbsp;III: Strategy and Value Creation.</p>
<p>Chapter 18. Strategy, Positioning and Focusing.&amp;</p>
<p>Chapter 19. Value Creation.</p>
<p>Part IV:&nbsp;Applying the Focused Management Approach.</p>
<p>Chapter 20. Value.Focused Project Management.</p>
<p>Chapter 21. Managing Research and Development.</p>
<p>Chapter 22. The Focused Management Approach in Logistics.</p>
<p>Part&nbsp;V: Perspective and Implementation.</p>
<p>Chapter 23. Our Managerial Credo.</p>
<p>References.</p>
<p>Recommended Readings.</p>
<p>Index.</p>