Purpose – The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of the merits of occupancy planning as a means for improving strategic decisions regarding real estate portfolios and strengthening the credibility of corporate real estate (CRE) professionals. Design/methodology/approach – The...

The effects of the choice of inspection level are poorly understood by many manufacturing companies and frequently result in waste or customer dissatisfaction. Describes the use of a quality simulation technique to generate cost data related to manufacturing quality performance and inspection...

Management development is a widely recognised strategy for improving an organisation's effectiveness. Large amounts are spent to develop effective managers but few studies show these training programmes lead to improved organisational performance. The result is wasted time and money and the...

In the product development process, marketing research is often used inappropriately. To be useful, marketing research must be focussed on questions to which the answers improve decision making; and marketers should realize that marketing research may do more harm than good when prospective...

To provide further evidence on the effectiveness of analytical procedures (APs) used in auditing. Computer simulation experiments are used to examine the error detection ability of a set of APs. Two different types of errors are examined and compared on the basis of the Type I and Type II errors...

Examines the provision of an occupational health service and the audit of such a service as one barometer of an organization's effective functioning. Occupational health is seen as part of the human resource function and encompasses health care, health education/information, health surveillance...

Many companies are spending large sums of money and considerable management effort in pursuit of one or more of the recognized quality awards. There are, however, critics who question whether it is all worthwhile. Reviews the experiences of speakers at the BPICS Conference, relating their...