The Industry 4.0 era requires new quality management systems due to the ever increasing complexity of the global business environment and the advent of advanced digital technologies. This study presents new ideas for predictive quality management based on an extensive review of the literature on...

Introduction to lean and supply chain management -- Lean -- Supply chains -- The nexus of lean and supply chain management -- Topics in lean supply chain management -- Topics in lean supply chain leadership -- Strategic customer value focus in supply chain management -- Topics in aligning lean...

From the individual to the largest organization, everyone today has to make investments in IT. Making a smart investment that will best satisfy all the necessary decision-making criteria requires careful and inclusive analysis. This textbook provides an up-to-date, in-depth understanding of the...

Many of the financial instruments used in classic investment analysis do not apply to typical information technology investment decision making because of the multi‐criteria and multi‐objective nature of the problem. This is particularly true when integrating strategic, tactical, and...

Purpose: The aim of this paper is to present green information technology (GIT) initiatives of leading countries and to suggest strategies for environmental sustainability for the follower countries. Design/methodology/approach: A comprehensive review of greening of IT and greening by IT...

The borderless global economy has accentuated the importance of knowledge as the most critical source of competitive advantage. Thus, knowledge management (KM) has become a strategic mandate for most world‐class organizations. A key enabler for implementing an effective KM system is advanced...