The Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Singapore face particularchallenges from increasing competition from manufacturers in China, India andother East Asian countries. For these SMEs, survival and growth dependcritically on defining their own competitive space among other companies in...

This thesis describes research that has developed a decision model for the analyticalselection of manufacturing best practices.The competitiveness and growth in the manufacturing sector is critical for Singaporeeconomy. Design and improvement of manufacturing systems is imperative tosustain the...

This thesis describes the application of a novel decision support process formachined part estimating in small and medium-sized engineering companies. ManySMEs tend to adopt manual estimating techniques, however this dependence on humanexpertise represents a risk to such organizations. Better...

This thesis is concerned with the decision process of strategic positioning withinglobal supply chains. The research provides insights into how companiescurrently form positioning decisions, and set out to develop a systematicmethodology to assist practitioners in forming their strategic...

There appears to be an ever insatiable demand from markets for organisations toimprove their products and services. In response, the concept of Business ProcessImprovement (BPI) has been developed in recent years as a useful aid. Unfortunately,there is no robust methodology that practitioners...