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Purpose – This paper aims to review the literature on the balanced scorecard (BSC) system. The BSC may well be one of the most popular performance measurement systems, but this is not synonymous with successful. The inventors of the BSC, Kaplan and Norton, actually emphasize that a BSC can...
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Purpose – This paper aims to examine the implementation of target cost management (TCM) at a Japanese shipbuilding … in-depth case study of TCM implementation project to show the issues involved in implementing TCM. Findings – The paper … over the TCM implementation. The TCM implementation project in our case ended in failure. The paper shows that the lack of …
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In the wake of publication of guidance by the National Assembly for Wales, a monitoring tool was developed for use in adult protection investigations. This paper explains how the monitoring tool, to be used by all Welsh local authorities, will work.
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2007 marks a major step forward in the history of adult protection with the implementation of the Mental Capacity Act …
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In recent years we have witnessed an increase in the number of inquiries into the abuse of vulnerable adults and in particular abuse within institutional settings. Readers of this Journal will be familiar with the particular media focus upon events in Cornwall (CSCI & HCC, 2006) and Sutton and...
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The literature has for more than two decades warned of operational, organizational, dysfunctional, market and managerial barriers hindering the actioning of marketing plans and indeed acting as hurdles impeding the very activities at the heart of effective marketing management. Many observed...
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of global account management, the Hewlett‐Packard Company. Concludes with a guide to successful implementation.  …
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Whirpool Corporation is the world’s leading marketer of major appliances. Its growth in the last ten years from a mostly domestic manufacturer to a global player is the result of a customer‐driven strategy adopted in which the company’s strengths are leveraged for growth around the world....
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Purpose – The literature on enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementation has been dominated by variance theories … which have identified numerous lists of critical success factors (CSFs) for managing implementation but there has been … teleological theory to the context of designing the change, pre and post project implementation. Whilst the data are based in the …
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resource planning (ERP) implementation case studies. The authors perform the analysis and propose the final CSFs based on the … reported ERP implementation process stages. Design/methodology/approach – The paper follows the eight category coding steps … proposed by Carley (1993) and utilizes only ERP implementation case studies to identify a distinct set of critical success …
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