A Multiple-Case Analysis of Lean Six Sigma Deployment and Implementation Strategies

Lean and Six Sigma are recent developments in continuous improvement methodology that have been popularized by several high-profile companies. The success and complementary nature of these methodologies has led to their combination into a single methodology, commonly called Lean Six Sigma or Lean Sigma. Although there is considerable literature available and many consultants involved with Lean Six Sigma, very little published research addresses the practical experiences of companies that have implemented Lean Six Sigma. The research question for this research is: How and why are certain private sector implementations of Lean Six Sigma successful or unsuccessful? The investigative questions further focused the research question and identified several factors that appeared to significantly contribute to implementation success. These factors are: Fusing business strategy with continuous improvement strategy; Leadership commitment and involvement in the deployment and implementation processes; The use of consultants that are proficient and experienced; and A defined organizational model that links the continuous improvement efforts with the performance measurement system and senior leadership Defined and standardized personnel selection criteria .This research\u27s purpose is to assist the Air Force structure a continuous improvement program that abates or eliminates the negative effects caused by deployment barriers and implementation challenges

Subsidizing Technology Competition: China’s Evolving Practices and International Trade Regulation

This article contributes to the growing debate about industrial policies and subsidies, the adequacy of the rules of the World Trade Organization (WTO), and future international negotiations of industrial subsidies, using China’s practices in the high-tech sector as an illustration. Through a review of China’s industrial policies in the high-tech sector including the 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-2025), we show China’s entrenched commitments and ambitions towards indigenous innovation, technology independence, and global leadership in key and emerging technologies especially in strategic sectors. However, we challenge the mainstream view that the existing WTO rules are inadequate to deal with Chinese subsidies. Based on a detailed analysis of the general subsidy rules and the relevant China-specific rules, we argue that the current rules create no hurdle to tackling the major types of technology subsidies in China. Any perceived deficiencies are not China-specific and can only be addressed by WTO Members via negotiations. If such negotiations are desirable, then governments should seek to leverage the impacts of the pandemic and the global (ab)use of subsidies to generate the political will needed. Drawing on existing proposals for the reform of WTO subsidy rules, we develop some general principles and approaches to facilitate future negotiations emphasizing the need to focus on targeting trade-distortive subsidies rather than China, to balance between strengthening subsidy rules and preserving policy space, to follow economic guidance and data while accommodating political considerations, and most innovatively, to shift from the ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach to a country-specific approach through a scheduling method whereby an Industrial Subsidy Schedule is created to record policy objectives, subsidy commitments, and exceptions of each nation

台湾少数民族の災害復興フレームワーク：2009年モラコット台風の復興過程を事例として

京都大学新制・課程博士博士(地球環境学)甲第24152号地環博第230号新制||地環||44(附属図書館)京都大学大学院地球環境学舎地球環境学専攻(主査)准教授 落合 知帆, 教授 小林 広英, 教授 西前 出, 教授 勝見 武, 准教授 TRENCHER Gregory学位規則第4条第1項該当Doctor of Global Environmental StudiesKyoto UniversityDFA

Global Value Chains

This important volume presents seven case studies of global value chains alongside two theoretical chapters concerning these chains. The contributors explore a wide range of issues relevant to value chains: the impact of global value chains on local upgrading strategies, the role of governance structures shaping global value chains, the role of buyers in creating, monitoring and enforcing commodity specifications and of international standards in shaping the patterns of chain governance. They also consider the role of donors, governmental organisations, and civil society in influencing value chains and the importance of partnerships as mechanisms for value chain upgrading. This carefully researched work is essential reading to scholars and students of the rapidly changing global economic order

THE COMPETITIVENESS IMPACTS OF CANADA'S AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT REVIEW REGULATIONS; FINAL REPORT

Agricultural and Food Policy,

Creating a priority based pull system within pre-packing area for Cosira Group, Vulcania

This document provides the reader with insight into the project at Cosira Group, Vulcania, Springs. The document includes the path of the student, as well as the proposed solutions that will potentially be followed in order to successfully complete the project. The aim of the project is for the student to showcase his competency in the relevant areas. This is done so that the University may award the student a BEng Industrial degree. Included in this paper is research that was done by the student regarding similar cases and problems in industry. The methods, tools, techniques, successes and failures from different projects were investigated. This was done to increase the understanding and insight into the problems that the student will face. Relevant techniques that will be used as well as methodologies that will be followed are discussed. Research was done at Cosira and the data was analysed in such a way as to complement the aim of the project. After the solutions or proposed systems are potentially implemented, there will be estimated cost savings as well as improved customer satisfaction. The work in progress (WIP) will be less and the time an order spends in the entire facility should be less. This project will showcase the ability of the student to analyze a problem as well as prove the legitimacy and motivation for the completion of a project using industrial engineering tools and thinking.Thesis (B Eng. (Industrial and Systems Engineering))--University of Pretoria, 2012

Developing supply chain methodologies for small to medium sized enterprises

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Transboundary management of Transitional Waters – Code of Conduct and Good Practice examples

Transitional waters have the ecological peculiarity of being both very fragile and resilient at the same time. The degradation of the transitional waters and the decline of their economic value arise from the excessive use of the resources, external input of pollutants mostly brought by large tributaries and from the mismanagement of the adjacent areas. The EU Water Framework Directive has accelerated the transboundary co-operation and development of spatially integrative management approaches in the south Baltic transitional waters. A high-level political committment in countries sharing a transitional water body, a professional agency, a stakeholders‘ forum and regular funding is the key to successful transboundary management of transitional waters.https://commons.wmu.se/artwei/1001/thumbnail.jp

Migration management: the radical violence of the international politics of migration

In the 1980s, the narrative of international migration was significantly altered in Europe. This thesis examines how this new narrative was brought about by policy-makers and shows how the narrative re-configured our understanding of international migration. Empirically, the focus of the thesis is the Inter-Governmental Consultations on Asylum, Refugee and Migration Policies in Europe, North America and Australia (IGC). These consultations are situated in the context of debates in the 1970s and 80s concerning ‘free-market conservatism’. The thesis argues that these debates comprised the conditions of possibility for the emergence of an 'informal plurilateralism'. Through thus far confidential memos between high ranking public servants, summaries distributed across embassies, background papers, minutes of meetings and personal letters, I trace the development of an altered discourse and the construction of a new figure: the ‘illegal migrant’. ‘Migration Management’, I argue, is best seen as a hegemonic paradigm which embodies a tool-box of mechanisms for governments to deal with international migration; introduces a distinctive way of treating human mobility; prescribes specific ways of constructing migrants, including a minority of illegal migrants who remain just outside of the European external boundaries, stripped of their juridico-political status. As such, these migrants are suspended from the community of those with a place and function. The figure of the suspended migrant points to the disappearance of the political, understood as a space where public encounter of the heterogeneous is possible. This raises crucial questions about what democracy is, how it works and how the political can be realised in a climate where the logic of necessity and efficiency has filled the space previously occupied by bipolar grand-narratives. Most urgently, it raises questions about the way in which the value of a human being is established, granted or denied. Arendt and Rancière help me to start addressing these questions