Developing a Supply Chain Strategy for a Midsize Resturant Chain

In this paper, we develop a supply chain strategy for a growing midsize restaurant chain. Based on a case research of The HoneyBaked Ham Company of Ohio, we propose that an integrated approach should be applied to handle the challenges presented in the midsize restaurant distribution system. Specifically, we focus on action plans for mitigating inefficiencies found in the previous supply chain of HBH. As the success of supply chain management has increasingly become part of the competitive advantage of many firms, our work provides managerial insights to practitioners and researchers in the area of chain restaurant management where supply chain is often overlooked as a standard "back-office" function

Contemporary project management : organize, lead, plan, perform

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Managing Project Quality

Make breakthroughs in project quality by combining project management with quality management - this books shows you how. Guiding you from project initiation through closure, the book provides a detailed stage-specific flowchart of activities correlated with appropriate tools to give you new power to meet customer expectations and institutionalize project quality.https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/books/1185/thumbnail.jp

Strategic Leadership of Portfolio and Project Management

As an executive, your organization may have limited resources. This book will instruct you and your leadership teams on implementing strategy through identifying, selecting, prioritizing, resourcing, and governing an optimal work portfolio. You’ll learn how to sponsor every project stage, as well as leading project managers as direct reports. Detailed advice is given for developing project management competency and utilizing input from customers, employees, and processes. You’ll learn how your organization can capitalize upon information technology to become competitive and to effectively implement business strategies, as well as how to make portfolio and project decisions using both qualitative and quantitative data and reliable analysis methods

Meeting Management And Group Character Development

After theoretically grounding their approach in learning process theory and group dynamics theory, the authors apply the quality process improvement model, the Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) Cycle, and group character development practices to leverage the effectiveness of each of the four stages of meeting management: meeting preparation, conducting meetings, evaluating meetings and in-between meeting activity. Then, the authors link the quality improvement literature with the organizational ethics literature by disclosing how effective meeting management shapes group character development through the necessary exercise of intellectual, moral, emotional, social and political virtues at the four appropriate meeting stages addressed by the PDSA Cycle. Finally, the authors identify future empirical research opportunities and recommend the simultaneous application of the PDSA Cycle and the regular exercise of designated group character development virtues necessary to improve meeting management

Managing Project Quality

The writers discuss how a quality practitioner can manage project quality effectively. The combined leverage of quality and project management is often underutilized due to inadequate experience in both fields, time pressures, or budgetary cutbacks. In particular, project initiation and closure are often neglected stages that can undermine effectiveness. The initiation stage includes identification, alignment, selection, and chartered commitment. The closure stage includes customer capability enhancement and contributor assessment, appreciation, and renewal

Achieving Success in Nonprofit Organizations

This book is an essential tool to help you grow with your nonprofit organization. Whether you are an executive director, manager, board member, pastor, or key volunteer, the details here will help you achieve so much more. The four overarching areas of what the authors term a “virtuous cycle in nonprofit organization success”—living the mission, making good decisions, getting things done, developing your team—emerged from literature searches, focus groups, and surveys to discover objectively what critical skills and knowledge are most useful to leaders of nonprofit organizations. Inside, experts contribute individual chapters in each of these four areas. This book can be used as a reference for specific skills and knowledge in any of these areas. It can also be used as a text since it covers 16 specific chapters within the four major sections and each chapter has a major case study, assessment questions, and summaries of key concepts