In this inaugural issue of International Journal of Quality Innovation, the Editor-in-Chief reports the evolution of quality management and the need for innovative research for creating new quality values.

The mathematical programming approach called `goal programming' or GP has been in existence for over three decades. GP has been used to optimize decision making from Christmas trees to allocating the resources of a whole nation's agricultural industry. This book reviews the body of knowledge on...

I Introduction to Network Analysis for Management -- 1 Analytical Functions of Management -- 2 Project/Venture Management -- 3 Introduction to Network Models -- II Fundamentals of VERT -- 4 Description of the Venture Evaluation and Review Technique -- 5 Network Construction and Logic -- 6 Input...