The purpose of this study was to bring understanding to what Lean and sustainable practices are most efficient and popular within printing companies. The information and data collected provides insight into what companies are doing to be Lean. The data exhibits what Lean and sustainable...

"Inspired by the Coase (1937) theory of the firm, we analyze the performance of Healy, Palepu, and Ruback (1992) sample of merged firms over a ten-year period using a managerially controlled efficiency measure, data envelopment analysis (DEA). Our individual, firm-level, year-by-year analyses...

Many initiatives to improve Business processes are emerging. The essential roles and contributions of Business Analyst (BA) and Business Process Management (BPM) professionals to such initiatives have been recognized in literature and practice. The roles and responsibilities of a BA or BPM...

SynopsisBusiness analysis is defined as the process in which business needs are identified and solutionsproposed. This process is regarded as one of the most important parts of systems developmentbecause no other part is more difficult to rectify later. However, current business...

Companies adopting Agile software development methodologies are becoming a growing trend. The roles responsible for managing and participating in these types of projects must make a significant shift in focus when moving from the waterfall development process to a more adaptive way of working....

Ziel dieser Diplomarbeit ist es, Grundlagen über das „Supply ChainManagement“ zu vermitteln und das Beschaffungskostenmanagement als dessen Teilbereich näher zu beschreiben. Eine nachhaltige Kostensenkung kann dabei durch den „Sourcing-Diamanten“ erreicht werden, der somit den Hauptteil...

Ziel dieser Arbeit ist es, dem Leser die Vorteile bzw. Nachteile von Target Costing und Kaizen Costing näher zu bringen.Dazu wird sich der erste Teil dieser Arbeit mit der Kostenrechnung befassen. Es werden nur die wichtigsten Teile erklärt, weil eine genauere Erläuterung der Kostenrechnung...