May 31, 2022

Industrial Engineering - Introduction



Lesson 4. Pioneering Efforts of Taylor, Gilbreth and Emerson

Industrial Engineering in Toyota Motors – Production System (TPS)


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Industrial Engineering - Introduction


There is a difference between industrial engineering and engineering management. Now both these programs are run by IE departments only in USA. IE is better described as engineering in response to industry data, economic theories, social science theories, and management requirements etc. Engineering has to be core of industrial engineering. It is done in response to industry generated data. Basic engineering is driven by scientific and technical development. Industrial engineering is response to industry data that is generated in using basic engineering output.  Cost data and human factor related data are two important data which find a significant role in industrial engineering. Work measurement and productivity measurement were developed within industrial engineering as useful measurements in industrial engineering design. Industrial engineering is very valuable. That is what Taiichi Ohno and Shigeo Shingo proved in Toyota after a period of IE successes in USA. Japanese practitioners of IE made significant contributions to industrial engineering.

Innovation is the daily activity of industrial engineers. They have to come out with redesigns and convince their colleagues as well as top managers to use them.  Ideas are to be identified or created  and their economic value has to be demonstrated. Solutions are to be implemented and customer satisfaction has to be ensured.

Industrial Engineering - Definitions



Industrial engineering directs the efficient conduct of manufacturing, construction, transportation, or even commercial enterprises of any undertaking, indeed in which human labor is directed to accomplishing any kind of work . Industrial engineering has drawn upon mechanical engineering, upon economics, sociology, psychology, philosophy, accountancy, to fuse from these older sciences a distinct body of science of its own . It is the inclusion of the economic and the human elements especially that differentiates industrial engineering from the older established branches of the profession (Going, 1911) [1].


“Industrial engineering is the engineering approach applied to all factors, including the human factor, involved in the production and distribution of products or services.” (Maynard, 1953) [2]


“Industrial engineering is the design of situations for the useful coordination of men, materials and machines in order to achieve desired results in an optimum manner. The unique characteristics of Industrial Engineering center about the consideration of the human factor as it is related to the technical aspects of a situation, and the integration of all factors that influence the overall situation.” (Lehrer, 1954) [3]

“Industrial engineering is concerned with the design, improvement, and installation of integrated systems of men, materials, and equipment. It draws upon specialized knowledge and skill in the mathematical, physical, and social sciences together with the principles and methods of engineering analysis and design, to specify, predict, and evaluate the results to be obtained from such systems.” (AIIE, 1955). [4]


"Industrial engineering may be defined as the art of utilizing scientific principles, psychological data, and physiological information for designing, improving, and integrating industrial, management, and human operating procedures." (Nadler, 1955) [5]


“Industrial engineering is that branch of engineering knowledge and practice which

1. Analyzes, measures, and improves the method of performing the tasks assigned to individuals,

2. Designs and installs better systems of integrating tasks assigned to a group,

3. Specifies, predicts, and evaluates the results obtained.

It does so by applying to materials, equipment and work specialized knowledge and skill in the mathematical and physical sciences and the principles and methods of engineering analysis and design. Since, however, work has to be carried out by people; engineering knowledge needs to be supplemented by knowledge derived from the biological and social sciences.” (Lyndall Urwick, 1963) [6]


"Industrial engineering is concerned with the design, improvement and installation of integrated systems of people, materials, information, equipment and energy. It draws upon specialized knowledge and skill in the mathematical, physical, and social sciences together with the principles and methods of engineering analysis and design, to specify, predict, and evaluate the results to be obtained from such systems." [7]

"Industrial engineering is an art for creating the most efficient system composed of people, matters, energy, and information, by which a specific goal in industrial, economic, or social activities will be achieved within predetermined probabilities and accuracy. The system may be for a small single work station, a group, a section, a department, an institution or for a whole business enterprise. It may be also be of a regional, national, international, or inter-planetary scope."(Sawada, 1977) [8]

“Industrial Engineering is Human Effort Engineering. It is an engineering discipline that deals with the design of human effort in all occupations: agricultural, manufacturing and service. The objectives of Industrial Engineering are optimization of productivity of work-systems and occupational comfort, health, safety and income of persons involved.” (Narayana Rao, 2006) [9]


"Industrial Engineering is Human Effort Engineering and System Efficiency Engineering. It is an engineering discipline that deals with the design of human effort and system efficiency in all occupations: agricultural, manufacturing and service. The objectives of Industrial Engineering are optimization of productivity of work-systems and occupational comfort, health, safety and income of persons involved."(Narayana Rao, 2009) [10]

Total Industrial Engineering is "a system of methods where the performance of labor is maximized by reducing Muri (unnatural operation), Mura (irregular operation) and Muda (non-value added operation), and then separating labor from machinery through the use of sensor techniques." (Yamashina)

( Source: http://wenku.baidu.com/view/a1cdf8ec4afe04a1b071de84.html)

"Industrial Engineering is Human Effort Engineering and System Efficiency Engineering. It is an engineering-based management staff-service discipline that deals with the design of human effort and system efficiency in all occupations: agricultural, manufacturing and service. The objectives of Industrial Engineering are optimization of productivity of work-systems and occupational comfort, health, safety and income of persons involved."(Narayana Rao, 2011) [Added to this knol (blog post) on 14.9.2011]

References

1. Going, Charles Buxton, Principles of Industrial Engineering, McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, 1911, Pages 1,2,3

2. Maynard, H.B., “Industrial Engineering”, Encyclopedia Americana, Americana Corporation, Vol. 15, 1953

3. Lehrer, Robert N., “The Nature of Industrial Engineering,” The Journal of Industrial Engineering, vol.5, No.1, January 1954, Page 4

4. Maynard, H.B., Handbook of Industrial Engineering, 2nd Edition, McGraw Hill, New York, 1963.

5. Nadler, Gerald, Motion and Time Study", McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., New York, 1955

6. Urwick, Lyndall, F., “Development of Industrial Engineering”, Chapter 1 in Handbook of Industrial Engineering, H.B. Maynard (Ed.), 2nd Edition, McGraw Hill, New York, 1963.

7. http://www.iienet2.org/Details.aspx?id=282

8. Sawada, P.N., "A Concept of Industrial Engineering," International Journal of Production Research, Vol 15, No. 6, 1977, Pp. 511-22.
9. Narayana Rao, K.V.S.S., “Definition of Industrial Engineering: Suggested Modification.” Udyog Pragati, October-December 2006, Pp. 1-4.
10. Narayana Rao K.V.S.S., Industrial Engineering


Industrial Engineering and Supporting Science


Industrial engineering is based on science. It is based scientific theories developed by examining the work of machines and men in practical applications in delivering outputs using engineering processes.

Productivity Science - Principle of Industrial Engineering

Develop a science for each element of a man - machine system's work related to efficiency and productivity.

The productivity science developed is the foundation for industrial engineering in productivity engineering and productivity management phases.

Industrial Engineering is a Management Function



Industrial engineering (IE) discipline emerged out of the involvement of engineers in management of engineering departments. It is management function. Henry Towne in a 1886 paper, presented in ASME called for learning of economics, management, cost accounting and cost reduction by engineers. Frederick Taylor identified the short coming in the shop management that engineers really do not understand how operators are using machines or hand tools. It is not proper management of manufacturing activity. Taylor came with the theory that managers have to know how work is to be done by operators and must have the capability to train them. Managers have to specify standard operating procedures. Taylor used time study as the tool to identify the best practices or methods being used by operators (mechanic arts) at that point in time and based on them developed standard operating procedures for human effort that improved productivity. Along with it, Taylor developed theory of various machine work methods, conducted experiments and came out with improvements in machine work and thus increased man-machine system productivity. Gilbreth came with a different approach of developing micro motions used by operators to carry any activity. He developed optimal methods by removing certain non-value adding micro motions and specifying more optimal micro motions. Harrington Emerson, developed principles of efficiency for manufacturing organizations.

Within the management functions its present focus of industrial engineering is on the improvement of efficiency of products, processes and systems and  design of work done by operators.  

In certain companies, IE department was made a part of management services department which was appropriate. Management accounting, Management controls, Management audit, Industrial engineering and some more such similar functions can be organized under management services departments. Such a departmentation clearly recognizes that these sections or functions are functions of management assisting management in planning, organizing and directing resources. Productivity services department was also in existence in some companies. In the recent days, there was trend to start operational excellence departments and industrial engineers are being employed in them.

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Explanation for the Words "Industrial" and "Engineering" in Industrial Engineering


Difference between Pure Engineering and  Industrial Engineering

Pure Engineering creates  technical products and processes that produce them, inspect them, operate them and service them.

Industrial Engineering is engaged in evaluation and further improvement of the technical products and processes created by the pure engineers so that at the price offered by the customers to buy a specified quantity of production, profit is made by the firm through resource use minimization and through further iterations over the life cycle of the product,  profit is further increased.

That is why Taiichi Ohno termed it Profit engineering

 Target costing developed in Japan best explains the role of industrial engineering in new product introduction.

IE techniques are primarily used for improving technical processes and managerial processes of technical processes (planning, organizing, resourcing, executing and controlling of technical tasks and processes) for increasing productivity. All IE pioneers worked in engineering concerns. They improved technical processes as well as managerial methods and processes used to manage technical processes.

F.W. Taylor improved metal cutting processes, machines, and management of machine shop. He recommended functional management scheme for the machine shop.

Gilbreth improved bricklaying process by making changes in techniques. Then he proceeded to make fatigue studies to decide the speed at which workers can function without fatigue and also time.

As an augmented activity, IE is applied to business processes and managerial activities related to business processes. With the development of information technology, industrial engineers with focus on information technology have made significant contribution to business process improvement.

The emphasis on engineering tasks is the engineering component of industrial engineering. Emphasis on making products profitable is the explanation for the term "industrial". Technical products are made commercial products or industrial products by IEs by reducing their costs below the prices quoted by potential consumers and still further reducing the costs by eliminating wastes so that profit is maximized through increase in sales (due to lower prices) as well as reduction in unit costs.

The basis for reduction of costs is better explained by value engineering. A potential customer quotes a price for a new product by the services it provides to him and by comparison to the prices that he is paying for current equipment that he is using. So for reducing the costs of a proposed product to bring it in line with customer's quote, industrial engineers have to study the architecture of the current products being used by potential customers. They need to get ideas for redesigning the proposed product by understanding how the required functions are being provided by the existing products being currently used.  In investigating the product, the processes being used for producing them also come into investigation.

Productivity Engineering - Principle of Industrial Engineering

Industrial engineering is concerned with redesign of engineering systems with a view to improve their productivity. Industrial engineers analyze productivity of each  resource used in engineering systems and redesign as necessary to improve productivity.

It has to be ensured that the increase in productivity due to the use of low-cost materials, processes and increasing speed of machines and men, should not lead to any decrease in quality of the output.


1908 – The industrial engineering department at Penn State wa founded by Hugo Diemer, a pioneer in the field. James Gunn coined the term “industrial engineering” in 1900 to describe the fusion of the engineer who understands production costs, analyzes them and reduces them.  Diemer was named the first head of the department.
http://www.ime.psu.edu/department/history.aspx

The fusion created by Taylor, Gilbreth, Emerson, Diemer and Going is the efficiency improvement of engineering systems to make projects viable and prosperous.


Functions and Focus Areas of Industrial Engineering


Functions and focus areas are discussed in the following article and the lists are shown in pictures..

Functions and Focus Areas of Industrial Engineering






What is Industrial Engineering?

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Narayana Rao


Principles of Industrial Engineering - Taylor - Narayana Rao

Presentation by Narayana Rao on 23 May 2017 at IISE 2017 Annual Conference - Pittsburgh

Professor Narayana Rao developed Principles of Industrial Engineering in July 2016 and presented them in two conferences. The detailed set of principles were presented in the 2017 IISE Annual Conference held in Pittsburgh, USA. The paper is included in the proceedings of the conference.
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Narayana Rao


Basic Principles of Industrial Engineering - Narayana Rao

1. Develop science for each element of a man - machine system's work related to efficiency and productivity.
2. Engineer methods, processes and operations to use the laws related to the work of machines, man, materials and other resources.
3. Select or assign workmen based on predefined aptitudes for various types of man - machine work.
4. Train workmen, supervisors, and engineers in the new methods.
5. Incorporate suggestions of operators, supervisors and engineers in the methods redesign on a continuous basis.
6. Plan and manage productivity at system level.

(Principles developed by Narayana Rao based on principles of scientific management by F.W. Taylor on 4 July 2016.)

 Detailed List of Principles - Presented at IISE 2017 Annual Conference at Pittsburgh on 23 May 2017.
1. Productivity science
2. Productivity engineering
3. Industrial Engineering is applicable to all branches of engineering
4. Principles of machine utilization economy to be developed for all resources used in engineering systems.
5. Industrial engineering optimization
6. Industrial engineering economics
7. Implementation team membership and leadership
8. Human effort engineering for increasing productivity
9. Principles of motion economy to be used in all IE studies in the area of human effort engineering
10. Operator comfort and health are to be taken care of.
11. Work measurement
12. Selection of operators
13. Training of operators, supervisors and engineers
14. Productivity training and education to all
15. Employee involvement in continuous improvement of processes and products for productivity improvement.
16. Productivity incentives
17. Hearty cooperation
18. Productivity Management
19. System level focus for productivity
20. Productivity measurement
21. Cost measurement

Levels of Industrial Engineering in an Organization

Industrial Engineering Strategy - Enterprise Level Industrial Engineering

Policy Decisions by Top Management: Starting and Expanding IE Department, Approval of Productivity Improvement Project Portfolio as part of Capital Budgeting of the Company, Approving Productivity Policy, Setting Productivity and Cost Reduction Goals. Setting Employee related comfort, health and safety goals. Incentive income policy making.

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2014/11/industrial-engineering-strategy.html


Facilities Industrial Engineering

Facilities are used by processes. Facilities are common to processes. Taylor clearly mentioned in his "Piece Rates - Elementary Rate Fixing System" paper that he has to make modifications to all machines to increase productivity of his machine shop. Toyota even today carries out gradual improvements to the machines in the direction of autonomation. Machines are continuously improved. Period layout studies and readjustments are another example of facilities industrial engineering. 5S that demands upkeep of facilities is another example of facilities IE when it is implemented for the first time and proposed and initiated by the IE department. Thereafter it becomes the activity of operations management.

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2020/05/facilities-industrial-engineering.html



Process Industrial Engineering - Process Machine Effort Industrial Engineering - Process Human Effort Industrial Engineering.

Process industrial engineering is the popular method of industrial engineering. But, the process chart method was promoted by Motion Study books. The machine effort industrial engineering, that is improvement of machine effort, that was done by Taylor primarily to increase productivity got neglected in the evolution of industrial engineering. It is a weakness to be corrected to make IE a strong discipline.

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2021/11/process-industrial-engineering-process.html


Operation Industrial Engineering.

Process chart is a condensed version that show the entire process of producing a full product and the production of each part. The process chart is composed by symbols representing 5 operations. Operation - Inspection - Transport - Temporary Delay (WIP) - Permanent Storage (controlled store). Using process chart, the sequence of operations can be investigated and changed for more benefit. But each operation needs to be improved. It is termed simplification in process chart analysis. To do simplification information on each operation has to be collected in operation information sheets and they have to be analyzed in operation analysis sheets (Stegemerten and Maynard)

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2013/11/approach-to-operation-analysis-as-step.html


Element Level Analysis in Industrial Engineering

Elements are in Operations - We can understand the term "element" from the subject "Design of Machine Elements". Each engineering product has elements. Similarly each operation, that is part of a process has elements. Some are related to machines and tools used in the process. Some are related to human operators. Some are related to working conditions. Some are related to the work being done. Taylor first named the productivity department as "Elementary Rate Fixing Department." It has to improve each and every element in task and determine the output possible for unit time in the work element. The time allowed for that element for a piece or batch is determined through these elementary standard times or allowed times.

More Detailed Articles on Industrial Engineering


Taylor's Industrial Engineering
https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2019/06/taylors-industrial-engineering.html

Taylor's Industrial Engineering in New Framework - Narayana Rao
https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2019/07/taylors-industrial-engineering-in-new.html

Industrial Engineering in Various Functions of a Business/Industrial Organization

Industrial engineering is primarily applied in engineering departments of organizations.  But as productivity is a relevant issues in other departments, application of industrial engineering is available in other departments also.

Product Design Industrial Engineering
http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2012/09/product-design-industrial-engineering.html

Maintenance System Industrial Engineering - Online Book
http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2012/09/maintenance-system-industrial.html

Information Systems Industrial Engineering - Online Book
http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2012/09/information-systems-industrial.html

Financial System Industrial Engineering - Online Book
http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2012/09/financial-system-industrial-engineering.html

Marketing System Industrial Engineering - Online Book
http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2012/09/marketing-system-industrial-engineering.html

Supply Chain Industrial Engineering - Online Book
http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2012/09/supply-chain-industrial-engineering.html

Manufacturing System Industrial Engineering - Online Book
http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2012/09/manufacturing-system-industrial.html

Total Cost Industrial Engineering - Industrial Engineering of Enterprise Cost
http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2012/09/total-cost-industrial-engineering.html

Quality System Industrial Engineering
http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2012/10/quality-system-industrial-engineering.html

Logistical Systems Industrial Engineering (Truck, Rail, Air and Ship Transport related Industrial Engineering) (Suggested B. Venkateswara Rao, FaceBook)
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Attributes of Industrial Engineering 

Research Possibilities are there in relation to them.
Think of a sentence that links industrial engineering with each term.


#Activity #adjustment #advantage  #Adoption  #Agreement  #Aptitude #Arrangement
#Best #Big  #Better  #Bound #Benchmarking
#Comfort #care #communication #cooperation  #clear #concept #cost #costreduction #costing #costcontrol #Casestudy #Creativity
#Decision  #Development #Distribution  #Design #Decrease #Dance #Danger #Dream #Dignity #Demonstration #Desire
#Engine #Engineering #Employee #Employment #Effectiveness  #Efficiency  #Engagement #Excitement  #Excellence #Eager #eagerness #Extreme #Extrovert #Extroversion #Extension #Existence #Extra #Estimate
#Fatigue #Forecasting #Finance #Fitness  #Future
#Goal #Game  #Going  #Gain #Guess
#Hope #Heat #Harness #Hard #
#Increase  #Involve #Insure #Improve #Improvement

Top 100 Management Theory Articles of the blog

June First Week - IE Knowledge Revision

http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2016/05/june-first-week-ie-knowledge-revision.html


Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course

Online Handbook of Industrial Engineering

Updated  1 June 2022,  3 June 2021,  20 May 2020,  1 June 2019, 25 May 2019,   4 June 2017,  27 May 2016,  16 Dec 2011
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Defining Marketing for the New Realities - Kotler - Keller - 15th Edition

 


Defining Marketing for the New Realities - Important Points


Skillful marketing is a never-ending pursuit.


What Is Marketing?

Marketing is about identifying and meeting human and social needs.


The American Marketing Association offers the following formal definition: Marketing is the activity, set of institutions, and processes for creating, communicating, delivering, and exchanging offerings that have value for customers, clients, partners, and society at large.


Marketing management "The art and science of choosing target markets and getting, keeping, and growing customers through creating, delivering, and communicating superior customer value."


Social definition: Marketing is a societal process by which individuals and groups obtain what they need and want through creating, offering, and freely exchanging products and services of value with others.


The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well that the product or service fits him and sells itself. Ideally, marketing should result in a customer who is ready to buy. All that should be needed then is to make the product or service available. - Peter Drucker.


Marketers market 10 main types of entities: goods, services, events, experiences, persons, places, properties, organizations, information, and ideas. 


A marketer is someone who seeks a response—attention, a purchase, a vote, a donation—from another party, called the prospect. If two parties are seeking to sell something to each other, we call them both marketers.


Needs, Wants, and Demands

Needs are the basic human requirements such as for air, food, water, clothing, and shelter. Humans also have strong needs for recreation, education, and entertainment. These needs become wants when directed to specific objects that might satisfy the need. Demands are wants for specific products backed by an ability to pay. Many people want a Mercedes; only a few can buy one.


A value proposition is a set of benefits that satisfy needs. The value proposition is made physical by an offering, which can be a combination of products, services, information, and experiences. A brand is an offering from a known source.


The buyer chooses the offerings he or she perceives to deliver the most value, the sum of the tangible and intangible benefits and costs. Value is an important and central marketing concept. It is primarily a combination of quality, service, and price.  Value perceptions increase with quality and service but decrease with price.


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Kotler - Keller - Chernev - Marketing Management, 16th Edition - Book Information

 Marketing Management, 16th Edition

Philip Kotler, Northwestern University


Kevin Lane Keller, Dartmouth College


Alexander Chernev, Northwestern University


©2022 

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Pearson


Table of Contents

PART I: FUNDAMENTALS OF MARKETING MANAGEMENT

1. Defining Marketing for the New Realities

2. Marketing Planning and Management


PART II: UNDERSTANDING THE MARKET

3. Analyzing Consumer Markets

4. Analyzing Business Markets

5. Conducting Marketing Research


PART III: DEVELOPING A WINNING MARKETING STRATEGY

6. Identifying Market Segments and Target Customers

7. Crafting a Customer Value Proposition and Positioning


PART IV: DESIGNING VALUE

8. Designing and Managing Products

9. Designing and Managing Services

10. Building Strong Brands

11. Managing Pricing and Sales Promotions


PART V: COMMUNICATING VALUE

12. Managing Marketing Communications

13. Designing an Integrated Marketing Campaign in the Digital Age

14. Personal Selling and Direct Marketing


PART VI: DELIVERING VALUE

15. Designing and Managing Distribution Channels

16. Managing Retailing


PART VII: MANAGING GROWTH

17. Driving Growth in Competitive Markets

18. Developing New Market Offerings

19. Building Customer Loyalty

20. Tapping into Global Markets

21. Socially Responsible Marketing


https://www.pearson.com/us/higher-education/program/Kotler-Revel-for-Marketing-Management-Access-Card-16th-Edition/PGM100003054015.html?tab=contents

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May 26, 2022

Marketing Management Article Directory – KVSS Narayana Rao


Marketing Management Revision Article Directory - Based on Kotler and Keller's Book - Marketing Management




Marketing Concept - Kotler

Planning in the Marketing Process

Marketing Strategy - Marketing Process - Kotler's Description

Scanning of Environment for Marketing Ideas and Decisions
Revised Article: Scanning the Marketing Macroenvironment - Philip Kotler's Book Chapter Summary

Marketing Strategy - Differentiating and Positioning the Market Offering

Management of Marketing Department and Function

Determinants of Customer Satisfaction and Loyalty

Marketing Research and Market Demand Forecasting

Consumer Behavior

Analysis of Consumer Markets

Organizational Buying Processes and Buying Behavior

Market Segmentation and Selection of Target Segments

Branding Strategy and Brand Equity

Brand Positioning

Analyzing Competitors

Strategy of Market Leader

Marketing Strategies for Challenger Firms

Competitive Strategies for Followers and Nichers

Managing Product Lines and Brands

Marketing Strategy for New Industry Products

Marketing Management for Service Firms

Pricing Strategy and Tactics

Marketing Channel Management – Important Issues

Managing Wholesaling and Retailing Network

Marketing Logistics

Integrated Marketing Communication - Kotler and Keller Chapter Summary

Marketing Communication: Channels and Promotion Tools

Advertising

Sales Promotion

Marketing Public Relations

Sales Process and Sales Training

Direct Marketing

Online Marketing

Marketing and New Product Development

International and Global Marketing

Sales Force Management

Developing Enterprisewide or Company Wide Marketing Orientation

Management of Marketing Department and Function



Marketing Management Research - Propositions


Planned Revision schedule for marketing chapters is in February and March

Marketing Management, 16è Indian Edition co-authored by Philip Kotler, Kevin Lane Keller, Alexander Chernev, Jagdish Sheth N Sheth, & Shainesh G. 
The most anticipated book is finally dropping on 31st May' 2022.

Updated 27.5.2022,  4 Sep 2016,  28 Jan 2015, 7 June 2014, 4 December 2011


Papers from the Conference of Australia and Newzealand Marketing Academy Conference 2008 - Index and Full Papers
http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/25410/20101006-0008/www.anzmac2008.org/_Proceedings/Index.html
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May 25, 2022

Digital Transformation - News, Principles, Strategies and Rules


Digital Transformation News and Developments


2021

Top trends in digital transformation in 2021


Digital Transformation Principles

2020

Digital Transformation Comes Down to Talent in 4 Key Areas
by Thomas H. Davenport and Thomas C. Redman
May 21, 2020

Assembling the right team of technology, data, and process people who can work together — with a strong leader who can bring about change — may be the single most important step that a company contemplating digital transformation can take.

Process management  for effectiveness is to be done horizontally, across existing departments (silos), with output focused on customers. Still many organizations find it difficult to reconcile the new approach  with traditional hierarchical thinking. As a result, this powerful concept has languished.
https://hbr.org/2020/05/digital-transformation-comes-down-to-talent-in-4-key-areas

2019
Digital transformation: Improving the odds of success
October 22, 2019
https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/mckinsey-digital/our-insights/digital-transformation-improving-the-odds-of-success

How to design AI tools for the workplace, Amy Lokey, VP of user experience, Google
June 21, 2019
https://qz.com/work/1641696/google-ux-lead-on-getting-ai-right-in-the-workplace/

The Five Rules of Digital Strategy
MAY 29, 2019 
By Dan Wald, Romain de Laubier, and Tauseef Charanya

Top 21 Digital Transformation Strategies
https://www.imd.org/imd-reflections/digital-programs-reflections/digital-transformation-strategies/

BCG Digital Transformation
https://www.bcg.com/digital-bcg/digital-transformation/overview.aspx

2018

Unlocking success in digital transformations
October 2018 - McKinsey Survey
The results from successful transformations show that these organizations deploy more technologies than others do
https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/organization/our-insights/unlocking-success-in-digital-transformations

2017

Ten Guiding Principles of Digital Transformation

Tanguy Catlin, Johannes-Tobias Lorenz, Bob Sternfels, and Paul Willmott, McKinsey
March 2017
https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/financial-services/our-insights/a-roadmap-for-a-digital-transformation

Defining value phase

1. Secure senior management commitment
2. Set clear, ambitious targets
3. Secure investment

Prjects and Programs launch and acceleration phase

4. Start with lighthouse projects (projects that offer potential for significant rewards with manageable risk)
5. Appoint a high-caliber launch team
6. Organize to promote new, agile ways of working
7. Nurture a digital culture

Scaling up phase

At 18-months pilot phase, time to scale up up arrives.

8. Sequence initiatives for quick returns
9. Build capabilities
10. Adopt a new operating model

Digital Leadership Principles

Subhinder Dhillon
Capgemini
2015

Customer is King
Have Plan A, B and C Ready.
Digitalisation with Representation
Ecosystem Control (Participation)
Business with Technology (24/7 business)
Data as Lifeblood (Or at least a new material of the business out of which products and services are made)
Channels of Choice (As per the desires of the customer)
Innovation Never Sleeps
https://www.capgemini.com/2015/06/how-successful-leaders-secure-benefits-from-digital-transformation-8-0/



Digital Transformation Strategy Issues


The seven decisions that matter in a digital transformation: A CEO’s guide to reinvention
By Peter Dahlström, Driek Desmet, and Marc Singer, McKinsey & Co.
February 2017
https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/digital-mckinsey/our-insights/the-seven-decisions-that-matter-in-a-digital-transformation

The critical decisions occur in the four phases of a successful digital transformation program:

Discovering the ambition for the business based on where value is migrating
Designing a transformation program that targets profitable customer journeys
Delivering the change through an ecosystem of partners
De-risking the transformation process to maximize the chances of success

In each decision, the CEO has a role, from modeling, visualizing and approving the new system to efforts to bring in new behavior in organization that is in tune with the change in strategy.

Important Decisions
1: Where the business should go
2: Who will lead the effort
3: How to ‘sell’ the vision to key stakeholders
4: Where to position the firm within the digital ecosystem
5: How to decide during the transformation
6: How to allocate funds rapidly and dynamically
7: What to do when

Digital Transformation Rules


Six IT Design Rules for Digital Transformation


Break boundaries across IT stacks.

Embrace DevOps

Be open.

Incorporate policy engines.

Induce insights

Insist on user-friendly experiences and tools.

Six IT Design Rules for Digital Transformation
July 19, 2017 Bain Brief
http://www.bain.com/publications/articles/six-IT-design-rules-for-digital-transformation.aspx



15 Rules for Winning During the Age of Digital Transformation

Cognizant Technology Solutions
http://www.futureofwork.com/article/details/15-rules-for-winning-during-the-age-of-digital-transformation



Five golden rules of digital transformation for CEOs to follow.


LEARN FROM THE OUTSIDE BUT STAY TRUE TO YOUR DNA
FOLLOW THE MAP, TRUST THE TERRAIN
PLACE MANY BETS
DIGITIZE THE ORGANIZATION
BUILD A TALENT PIPELINE

https://www.bcg.com/publications/2017/digital-transformation-digital-organization-ceo-guide-to-digital-transformation.aspx


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Behavioral Performance Management - Revision Notes

Behavioral Performance Management Model

Identification of Performance Behaviors
Measurement of the Behavior
Functional Analysis of the Behavior
Development of Intervention Strategy
Evaluation to ensure Performance


The whole text on organizational behavior is concerned with the what and how of managing and leading people for high performance in today's organizations.

Organizational behavior is a science that explains how people behave. In a changing world, the science of behavior must remain the bedrock, the starting place for every decision we make, every new technology we apply, and every initiative we employ in our efforts to bring out the best in people.

In this chapter, an over view of learning theory and principles are first discussed as they act as the foundation for presenting the behavioral management practice.


Learning Process - Change in Behavior


All organizational behavior is either directly or indirectly affected by learning. For example, a worker's skill, a manager's attitude, an assistant's motivation, or a doctor's mode of dress are all learned.  Hence managers of organizational behavior have to understand the learning mechanisms to guide employees to change their behavior. Learning is defined as change in behavior.

In learning theories, behavioristic theories, cognitive theories, social learning and social cognitive learning theories are discussed in the chapter. Classical conditioning and operant conditioning are behavioristic theories.
In operant conditioning, the organism must operate on the environment in a right way or appropriate way to get the desired reward.

Working is the operation a worker has to do to get food clothing and shelter for himself and his family.

Cognitive Learning


Tolman proposed cognitive learning.

Kohler discovered insight learning (insight is not based on experience)

Social Learning


Learning takes place via vicarious, or modeling, and self-control processes.

Behavioral Dimension Performance Management Process 


1. Identification of Performance Behaviors


Critical behavior that contribute to job performance in the organization are to be identified

2. Measurement of the Behavior


A baseline measure is obtained by determining by observing or by analysis of records the number of times the identified behavior is occurring or not occurring.



3. Functional Analysis of the Behavior


A functional analysis identifies both the antecedents (A) and consequences (C) of the target behavior (B), or simply stated, an A-B-C analysis is performed.

The antecedent cues that emit or elicit the behavior, and sometimes control it, and the consequences that are currently maintaining the behavior must be identified and understood before an effective intervention strategy can be developed.  If the employee cannot do the behavior even if he wants to do it, then intervention has to be in antecedent variables. If the employee can do but not doing it, then the intervention has to be in consequence variables.

4. Development of Intervention Strategy


The strategies to be used strengthen functional behaviors and weaken dysfunctional behaviors are positive reinforcement and punishment-positive reinforcement.

Under positive control, people come to work in order to be recognized for making a contribution to their department's goal of perfect attendance, and they keep busy irrespective of the supervisor's presence to receive incentive pay or recognition

If punishment is to be used or used, the supervisor must take the first opportunity to positively reinforce the alternative behavior.

5. Evaluation to ensure Performance


Kirkpatrick's four levels of evaluation to a behavior modification initiative are important. They are reaction, learning, behavioral change, and performance improvement.


Step 1: Identification of Performance Behaviors


The goal of the first step of O.B. Mod. is to identify the critical behaviors—the 5 to 10 percent of the behaviors that may account for up to 70 or 80 percent of the performance in the area in question.

The process of identifying critical behaviors can be carried out in a couple of ways. One approach is to have the person closest to the job in question—the immediate supervisor or the actual jobholder—determine the critical behaviors. Another approach to identifying critical behaviors would be to conduct a systematic behavioral audit by internal staff specialists and/or outside consultants. The audit would systematically analyze each job in question, in the manner that jobs are analyzed using job analysis techniques commonly employed in human resource management. In this approach  the jobholder, his immediate supervisor, and others related provide inputs. 
 
Regardless of the method used, there are certain guidelines that can be helpful in identifying critical behaviors. First, only direct performance behaviors are included. Only direct performance behaviors such as absenteeism or attendance, tardiness or promptness, or, most importantly, doing or not doing a particular task or procedure that leads to quantity and/or quality outcomes play the major role in O.B. Mod.  The behavior has to be measurable such as not being at the workstation, being tardy when returning from breaks, spending time at the water cooler, disrupting coworkers, playing computer
games or surfing for personal reasons, and even socializing with coworkers face-to-face or
with others online. However, for a behavior to be identified as a critical behavior appropriate for O.B. Mod., there must be a positive answer to the questions: (1) Can it be directly measured? and (2) Does it have a significant impact on a performance outcome?
The behaviors causing problems must be properly identified, or the subsequent steps of O.B. Mod. become meaningless for attaining the overall goal of
performance improvement.

Step 2: Measurement of the Behavior
After the performance behaviors have been identified in step 1, they are measured. A baseline measure is obtained by determining (either by observing and counting or by extracting from existing records) the number of times that the identified behavior is occurring under existing conditions.  The purpose of the baseline measure is to provide objective frequency data on the critical behavior. A baseline frequency count is an operational definition of the strength of the behavior under existing conditions. It is important to realize that measures are taken after the intervention as well. 

Step 3: Functional Analysis of the Behavior
Once the performance behavior has been identified and a baseline measure has been obtained, a functional analysis is performed of the critical behaviors finalized on the basis of baseline data. A functional analysis identifies both the antecedents (A) and consequences (C) of the target behavior (B), or, simply stated, an A-B-C analysis is performed. As discussed under behavioristic learning theory and operant conditioning, both the antecedent and the consequent environments are vital to the understanding, prediction, and control of human behavior in organizations.  In the A-B-C functional analysis, A is the antecedent cue, B is the performance behavior identified in step 1, and C is the contingent consequence. 

They know how to do the desired performance behavior and there is all the necessary support to do it, but there are not reinforcing consequences and therefore the behavior is not occurring. This lack of reinforcing consequences is the major problem and challenge facing behavioral management. 

Step 4: Development of an Intervention Strategy

The goal of the intervention is to strengthen and accelerate functional performance behaviors and/or weaken and decelerate dysfunctional behaviors. There are several strategies that can be used, but the main ones are positive reinforcement and punishment–positive reinforcement.

A Positive Reinforcement Strategy
Positive, not negative, reinforcement is recommended as an effective intervention strategy for
O.B. Mod. Under positive control, the person behaves in a certain way in order to
receive the desired consequence. Under positive control, people come to work in order to be
recognized for making a contribution to their department’s goal of perfect attendance, or they
keep busy whether the supervisor is around or not in order to receive incentive pay or because
they get social recognition/attention and feedback for their good work. Positive control through
a positive reinforcement intervention strategy is much more effective and longer lasting than
negative control. It creates a much healthier and more productive organizational climate.

Besides money, many positive reinforcers that are also very powerful, readily available to all behavioral managers, and cost nothing are the social reinforcers (attention and recognition) and performance feedback. These reinforcers (money, recognition, and feedback) can be and, as has been demonstrated through research, have been used as an effective O.B. Mod. strategy to improve employee performance. In fact, the most comprehensive evidence shown in Figure 12.5 indicates that when these three reinforcers are used in combination in the intervention, they produce a stronger (synergistic) effect and probability of success than any of the reinforcers used by themselves, the sum of the individual
effects, or the combination of any two of the interventions.

A Punishment–Positive Reinforcement Strategy

So many negative side effects such as hate and revenge accompany the use of punishment that it should be avoided if at all possible. Punished behavior tends to be only temporarily suppressed; for example, if a supervisor reprimands an associate for some dysfunctional behavior, the behavior will decrease in the presence of the supervisor but will surface again when the supervisor is absent. In addition, a punished person becomes very anxious and uptight; reliance on punishment may have a disastrous impact
on employee satisfaction and commitment and create unnecessary stress.

If punishment is deemed necessary and given, the desirable alternative behavior (for example, safe behavior) should be positively reinforced at the first opportunity. Use of this combination strategy will cause the alternative desirable behavior to begin to replace the undesirable behavior in the person’s
behavioral repertoire. Punishment should never be used alone as an O.B. Mod. intervention. It has to be supported by positive reinforcement support quickly.  If punishment is absolutely necessary, it should only be used in combination with positive reinforcement of the desirable alternative behavior.

Step 5: Evaluation to Ensure Performance Improvement


O.B. Mod. attempts to meet the credibility and accountability problems head on by
including evaluation as an actual part of the process. In this last step of the approach, the
need for Kirkpatrick’s well-known four levels of evaluation (reaction, learning, behavioral
change, and performance improvement) is stressed. 

The reaction level refers simply to whether the people using the approach and those having it used on them like it. If O.B. Mod. is well received and there is a positive reaction to it, there is a better chance of its being used effectively. In addition, reaction evaluations are helpful because (1) positive
reactions help ensure organizational support, (2) they can provide information for planning
future programs, (3) favorable reactions can enhance the other levels of evaluation (learning, behavioral change, and performance improvement), and (4) they can provide useful
comparative data between units and across time.

The second level of evaluation is learning, which is especially important when first
implementing an O.B. Mod. approach. Do the people using the approach understand the
theoretical background and underlying assumptions and the meaning of, and reasons
for, the steps in the model? If they do not, the model will again tend to be used ineffectively.

The third level is aimed at behavioral change. Are behaviors actually being changed? The
charting of behaviors started in step 2 of the O.B. Mod. process gives objective data for this
level of evaluation. 

The fourth and final level, performance improvement, is the most important.   “Hard” measures
(for example, data on quantity and quality, turnover, absenteeism, customer complaints,
customer satisfaction, employee grievances, safety, length of patient stay, number of clients
served, sales revenue, and rate of return on investment) and scientific methodology are used
whenever possible to systematically evaluate the impact of O.B. Mod. on performance.



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Commitment-Based Management (CbM) - Introduction

 


Commitment-based management (CbM) was initially developed by Fernando Flores of University of California at Berkeley and Terry Winograd of Stanford University. This management style relies on agreements of commitment among parties to deliver an output within the agreed timeframe. When it’s executed efficiently, it will increase the quality of business performance.

https://alderkoten.com/five-ways-that-a-commitment-based-leader-can-improve-the-execution-process-2/

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/235264953_Commitment-based_management_practices_and_high_performance_The_case_of_Pfizer's_Loughbeg_tablet_plant

https://www.shrm.org/hr-today/trends-and-forecasting/special-reports-and-expert-views/documents/employee-engagement-commitment.pdf

MAGAZINE FALL 2005
Using Commitments to Manage Across Units
To coordinate work across different business units, executives should think of the organization as a nexus of commitments, or personal promises between employees, that must be actively managed.

Donald N. Sull and Charles Spinosa
October 15, 2005
https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/using-commitments-to-manage-across-units/

From Control to Commitment in the Workplace
by Richard E. Walton
From the Magazine (March 1985)

Mr. Walton, the Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, is a pioneer authority on work-force management issues. His HBR article, “How to Counter Alienation in the Plant” (November–December 1972), was one of the first analyses of participative management. He chaired the National Research Council committee whose work is reported here.
https://hbr.org/1985/03/from-control-to-commitment-in-the-workplace
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Resourcing - A Function of Management

Functions of Management - Planning - Organizing - Resourcing - Directing - Controlling.


Planning - Entrepreneurial function - Identifying the business opportunity - Business conceptualizing - Business model (Revenue, Cost, Profit Estimation)

Organizing - Visualizing the facilities and people required and their organization into departments or sections with managerial hierarchies to realize the projections in the business model.

Resourcing - Acquiring capital, facilities and human resources.

Directing - Handing over facilities and circulating assets to people and providing production plans and others guidelines.

Controlling - Measuring results and adjusting plans as needed to achieve the plans that are aligned to the environment as it unfolds in an optimal way to sustain the organization for a long time to come.

A Manager's Job is to get results through people and other resources. Hence acquiring all resources (including human resources) is a function of management. - Narayana Rao (2010)


Resourcing is a function of Management. Resource Efficiency Improvement is a function of Industrial Engineering. Narayana Rao (5 February 2019)

Linkedin Post in IISE Group

The article was first published on Knol in 2010.

Principles of Management Revision/Review Articles - List

Replace the Function Staffing by Resourcing in Functions of Management



Koontz and O'Donnell outlined Planning, Organizing, Staffing, Directing and Controlling as the five functions of management and explained the process of management of these five functions.

In the place of staffing, using the word resourcing, could be a better description of management function at the current stage.

A plan to achieve something (objective) is to be  converted into an organizational plan that has resources,  facilities and people. The manager has to acquire these resources to set up the organization to implement his plan. Acquisition of human resources is staffing. But normally in modern business, the manager has to acquire money resources or finance. Then, using capital and finance, he has to  acquire land, buildings, machinery, materials and various other services. Then comes directing and resource allocation (execution).

During control phase, replanning takes place, reorganization can take place, resource adjustment (resource acquisition or disposal) may take place, and redirecting may take place to achieve the goals set forth for a period.

Planning involves choosing a direction and an intermediate destination. It has to be a profitable and a useful endeavor. In the process of planning cost benefit analysis is done.  Organizing follows and the means by which one reaches the chosen destination is defined during this activity of management.

Organizing is a process of

  • determining, grouping and structuring activities
  • creating roles for individuals for effective performance at work
  • allocating necessary authority (over resources) and responsibility for results for each role
  • determining detailed procedures and systems for different problem areas such as coordination, communication, decision-making, motivation, conflict resolution and so on.

The resources required to achieve a goal are to be identified during the organizing step of management. How many operators are required and how many supervisors are required is a function of technology employed in the organization and this decision has to be taken during the process of organization. Resourcing follows the organizing phase in the acquiring of the resources planned in the organizing phase. Organizing this way is just the planning stage. Resourcing is the stage during which all resources planned in the organizing stage are acquired by the manager.
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Resources and Resource Management (APM Body of Knowledge)


What are resources?

According to the APM Body of Knowledge, ‘the resources needed to deliver a project, programme or portfolio include people, financial resources, machinery, materials, technology, property and anything else required to deliver the work. Resources may be obtained internally from the host organisation or procured from external sources’. They can also be consumable and/or re-usable.

Resource management is acquiring, allocating and managing the resources, such as individuals and their skills, finances, technology, materials, machinery and natural resources required for a project. Resource management ensures that internal and external resources are used effectively on time and to budget. Resources may be obtained internally from the host organisation or procured from external sources.

The APM Body of Knowledge defines resource management as 'the acquisition and deployment of the internal and external resources required to deliver the project, programme or portfolio’.    

https://www.apm.org.uk/blog/what-is-resource-management/

Resource Planning 


Resource planning is an economic decision and entrepreneurs have to use it. It is discussed adequately in economics.

Choice of Inputs by the Firm

Every firm or entrepreneur has to decide how much of each input it should employ: how much labor, capital, land, energy, various materials and services.

The fundamental assumption that economists make in this context is that of cost minimization. Firms are expected to choose their combination of inputs so as to minimize the total cost of production.

Least-cost Rule: To produce a given level of output at the least cost, a firm will hire factors until is has equalized the marginal product per dollar spent on each factor of production. This implies that

Marginal product of labor/price of labor  = Marginal Product of Capital Equipment/Price of capital equipment = ...

Thus the firm will choose a factor combination or resource combination that minimizes the total cost of production.  (Source: http://nraomtr.blogspot.com/2011/12/economic-theory-of-production-and.html  )

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Recognition of Role of Resources in Management Process by Various Authors of Principles of Management or Management Process Books

Ernest Dale

Goals and Resources

Once objectives have been set,the planners must decide how far they can proceed toward them in view of the resources available, which include the money on hand, the money that sales will bring, and the funds that may be obtained by borrowing or selling equities. The decision to borrow or sell new stock will, of course, be part of the planning process and will depend on the return expected on the investment.

Finally, the planners must decide on the allocation of the funds to the various company activities and the way in which these funds will be used to generate greater income in the form of sales.  The volume of sales is, in fact, the key factor in all corporate planning.

Ernest Dale, Graduale School of Business, University of Virginia, Management: Theory and Practice, McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, 1965, p.352, Chapter 22. Planning and Forecasting.

An interesting entry in Wikipedia - Resource Management

In organizational studies, resource management is the efficient and effective deployment for an organization's resources when they are needed. Such resources may include financial resources, inventory, human skills, production resources, or information technology (IT). In the realm of project management, processes, techniques and philosophies as to the best approach for allocating resources have been developed. These include discussions on functional vs. cross-functional resource allocation as well as processes espoused by organizations like the Project Management Institute (PMI) through their Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) methodology to project management. Resource management is a key element to activity resource estimating and project human resource management. Both are essential components of a comprehensive project management plan to execute and monitor a project successfully
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Resourcing and Resouce Planning Departments
Office of Resource Planning, Universit of Regina
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A new concept being developed as enterprise architecting clearly brings out the need for organizing material and human organizations and provides a process for developing the both organization. From this organization output, resource requirements will be clearly specified and during the resourcing function, manager has to acquire the resources specified in the organization structure.

Harvard Business Essentials on Resource


In the book, Coaching and Mentoring: How to Develop Top Talent and Achieve Stronger Performance, published by Harvard Business School Publishing Corporation, in 2004

Page 2

A Manager's Job is to get results through people and other resources.



Industrial Engineering

Resourcing and resource allocation is Manager's job. Resource efficiency (using resources efficiently) is the concern of Industrial engineers



PPT of Salah R. Agha, Professor Industrial Engineering, Islamic University of Gaza on Facilities Planning and Materials Handling

Indicates role of IEs.


100 Pioneers in Efficient Resource Management: Best practice cases from producing companies

Mario Schmidt, Hannes Spieth, Christian Haubach, Christian Kühne
Springer, 04-Dec-2018 - Science - 530 pages

The book presents about 100 current examples of how energy and materials can be saved in manufacturing companies. They serve to show which measures can be used in modern companies to exploit the potential for resource efficiency. The book is aimed at practitioners in companies and consulting firms, but is also suitable for the university sector as a practical introduction to the topic of resource efficiency. The materials used account for almost 43 percent of the costs of an average industrial company in Germany. Personnel costs, on the other hand, are only 22 percent, while energy costs are as low as 2 percent. If a company wants to save costs, above all it must consider the use of materials and produce in a resource-efficient manner. This simultaneously relieves the environment and reduces dependence on scarce raw materials. The implementation of resource efficiency is not easy. There are indeed numerous starting points in production, often in process innovations or in product development. However, only a few companies publish their measures and savings potentials. In practice, this means that there are often no learning examples in practice, but some of them are explicitly listed in this work. As you can see, resource efficiency in production and products can also be seen as a success factor for many companies. In the project 100 Pioneers in Efficient Resource Management, committed companies from
Baden-Wuerttemberg are showing their solutions. The project was carried out by a competent team from the Pforzheim University and the State Agency for Environmental Technology. Leading trade associations in Baden-Württemberg have supported it.

Resource Management Excellence: The Art of Excelling in Resource and Assets Management

H. James Harrington
Paton Professional, 2007 - Capital - 302 pages
https://books.google.co.in/books?id=tPQSjc7SXXwC

Facilities Planning


James A. Tompkins, John A. White, Yavuz A. Bozer, J. M .A. Tanchoco
John Wiley & Sons, 19-Jan-2010 - Technology & Engineering - 864 pages


When it comes to facilities planning, engineers turn to this book to explore the most current practices. The new edition continues to guide them through each step in the planning process. The updated material includes more discussions on economics, the supply chain, and ports of entry. It takes a more global perspective while incorporating new case studies to show how the information is applied in the field. Many of the chapters have been streamlined as well to focus on the most relevant topics. All of this will help engineers approach facilities planning with creativity and precision.

https://books.google.co.in/books?id=-xBIq6Qm2SQC


Resourcing Activity is well described in Project Management Literature.

Interesting Article

Resource Management by Management Yogi

Resourcing - An Important Activity in Project Management


Resource and Capacity Management - Bibliography


Related topics

The Nature and Purpose of Planning
The Nature of Organizing
Resourcing - A Function of Management
Leading - Introduction
Planning and Execution - Theory and Practice
The System and Process of Controlling


Information Resources Management Association
Advancing the Concepts & Practices of Information Resources Management in Modern Organizations

About Us
IRMA is an international organization dedicated to advancing the research community by bringing together researchers, practitioners, academicians, and policy makers in information technology management. With members spanning over 50 countries worldwide, IRMA seeks to assist organizations and professionals in enhancing the overall knowledge and understanding of effective information resources management in the early 21st century and beyond.

The specific aims of IRMA, include:
To promote and encourage the association among individuals with an interest in the field of management of information resources.
To provide resources, assistance, encouragement, and incentives to individuals either engaged in or planning to become engaged in, the field of information resources management in order to enhance professional's knowledge or IRM issue, and trends.
To promote and publish professional and scholarly journals, periodicals, bulletins, and other forms of publications in the field of information resources management.
These objectives are accomplished through the association's diverse collection of scholarly publications, its membership, and bringing the IRM research community together.

https://www.irma-international.org/about/

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May 23, 2022

Principles of Motion Economy

Industrial Engineering Article Series

Industrial Engineering Principles - Principles of all Subjects of Industrial Engineering Discipline

Principles of motion economy for human effort industrial engineering. Principles of machine economy for machine effort industrial engineering.

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Principles of Motion Economy are to be used in motion design, motion analysis, motion study of human operators. Motion design is a technique of Human Effort Engineering, a core focus area of Industrial Engineering. They can also be used in robot motion design.

Functions and Focus Areas of Industrial Engineering

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Use of the Human Body




1. The two hands should begin as well as complete their motions at the same time.


2. The two hands should not be idle at the same time except during rest periods.


3. Motions of the arms should be made in opposite and symmetrical directions and should be made simultaneously.


4. Hand and body motions should be confined to the lowest classification with which it is possible to perform the work satisfactorily.



5. Momentum should be employed to assist the worker wherever possible, and it should be reduced to a minimum if it must be overcome by muscular effort.



6. Smooth continuous motion of the hands are preferable to straight line motions involving sudden and sharp changes in direction.



7. Ballistic movements are faster, easier and more accurate than restricted (fixation) or controlled movements.



8. Work should be arranged to permit an easy and natural rhythm wherever possible.



9. Eye fixations should be as few and as close together as possible.





Arrangement of the workplace




10. There should be a definite and fixed place for all tools and materials.

5S - In Japanese companies this principle was implemented with special focus under the name "5S"

11. Tools, materials and controls should be located close to the point of use.



12. Gravity feed bins and containers should be used to deliver material close to the point of use.



13. Drop deliveries should be used wherever possible.



14. Materials and tools should be located to permit the best sequence of motions.



15. Provisions should be made for adequate conditions for seeing. Good illumination is the first requirement for satisfactory visual perception.



16. The height of the work place and the chair should preferably arranged so that alternate sitting and standing at work are easily possible.



17. A chair of the type and height to permit good posture should be provided for every worker.



Design of tools and equipment




18. The hands should be relieved of all work that can be done more advantageously by a jig, a fixture, or a foot-operated device.

Learn Jig and Fixture Design - Principles of Jig and Fixture Design

19. Two or more tools should be combined wherever possible.

Combination Tools

20. Tools and materials should be prepositioned whenever possible.



21. Where each finger performs some specific movement, such as in typewriting, the load should be distributed in accordance with the inherent capacities of the fingers.



22. Levers, hand wheels and other controls should be located in such positions that the operator can manipulate them with the least change in body position and with the greatest speed and ease.
 

References

Ralph M. Barnes, Motion and Time Study Measurement of Work, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1980

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