{"title":"A study on Sun Pin’s art of business management strategies matching the MBNQA criteria for business competitiveness","authors":"Y. Tsang, Stephen F. Lee","doi":"10.1108/09576060210436641","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/09576060210436641","url":null,"abstract":"The recent growth of interests in applying the Chinese art of warfare to complement the Western style of management process suggested that an integrated business model that combined the Western scientific management and ancient Chinese wisdom could be an effective tool for gaining strategic advantages, especially for companies that want to share the newly opened markets in mainland China. Among all, Sun Tzu’s The Art of War has been widely adopted and applied in various business areas. However, there are few presentations with strategic models. Moreover, works on his successor, Sun Pin, are limited particularly to the area of applying his art of warfare in gaining strategic advantages and transforming business crisis into opportunities. While various business and quality management models at national level have been established by various countries to emphasise their differences in economic development and culture, models of similar type that make use of the ancient Chinese wisdom are not available either in Hong Kong or in China. As China has become a member of the WTO, a national model that framed both the Chinese management philosophy and Western management wisdom would certainly help in driving local and international enterprises for business competitiveness. This paper is therefore a first attempt to investigate the applicability of Sun Pin’s The Art of Warfare for business management strategies by amalgamating the Western wisdom and the Chinese art of warfare.","PeriodicalId":100314,"journal":{"name":"Computer Integrated Manufacturing Systems","volume":"20 1","pages":"386-407"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77597853","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Powerhouse’s management strategies for excellent business achievement","authors":"Thomas K.Y. Tang","doi":"10.1108/09576060210436623","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/09576060210436623","url":null,"abstract":"Many of the Chinese military theorists are famous for their military operations in ancient China and their thoughts and philosophies have been repeatedly translated, investigated and discussed throughout the world. Researches with thoughts that were originated from these philosophies were published, advocating enterprises, their businesses and management strategies. T’ai Kung’s Six Secret Teachings or The Six Strategies for War in Chinese Liu Tao was written by the brilliant strategist who helped establish the western Zhou dynasty about eleventh century BC. The three strategies of Huang Shik Kung or three strategies for war of Huang Shi Gong in Chinese Shan Lue was used as a standard reference for military officials in China. It deals with the three strategies, Superior Strategy, Middle Strategy and Inferior Strategy. This paper examines the philosophies of Liu Tao and Shan Lue for the purposes of development of management philosophies of the Powerhouse of Hong Kong Productivity Council, “Three strategies and six focuses”.","PeriodicalId":100314,"journal":{"name":"Computer Integrated Manufacturing Systems","volume":"162 1","pages":"366-374"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86394235","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"National productivity and competitive strategies for the new millennium","authors":"P. Shurchuluu","doi":"10.1108/09576060210436650","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/09576060210436650","url":null,"abstract":"Globalization and national competitiveness are popular issues in our economic policy debates. This paper seeks to clarify these pressing issues facing government, private sector and trade unions and focuses on alternative productivity and competitive strategies and benchmarking for competitiveness. It examines approaches to national competitiveness during globalization, the factors affecting the competitiveness policy framework and recommends a holistic national approach for competitiveness and higher productivity under globalization. This approach is to be based, among others, on an understanding of the nature of technological change in manufacturing enterprises so far. The pace at which enterprises acquire technological and other manufacturing capabilities is to be reflected in shifts in comparative advantage at the country level. Thus, national competitiveness can be proxied by manufactured export performance relative to competitors. For the economy to be more competitive and productive there are stron...","PeriodicalId":100314,"journal":{"name":"Computer Integrated Manufacturing Systems","volume":"272 1","pages":"408-414"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74373107","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Labour productivity: an important business strategy in manufacturing","authors":"Mohd Sahar Sauian","doi":"10.1108/09576060210436696","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/09576060210436696","url":null,"abstract":"This paper attempts to highlight the importance of productivity and efficiency in creating wealth or value added, particularly in manufacturing. The essential element is the measuring of “labour productivity” in selected manufacturing sectors in the economy. In essence, the approach is the calculation of labour coefficients as rough estimates of labour productivity. Hypothetical examples of a number of selected manufacturing sectors in three ASEAN countries are presented. This enables one to make a comparison between labour coefficients of different sectors or of the same sectors in different countries. Since labour productivity can also relate to efficiency and technological usage, it is prudent that this approach will at least show an indication of a country’s competitive advantage vis‐a‐vis other countries. Finally, it helps leaders of large organisations to make investment decisions particularly with respect to plant location.","PeriodicalId":100314,"journal":{"name":"Computer Integrated Manufacturing Systems","volume":"67 1","pages":"435-438"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80247667","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The importance of trust: creating wealth in a connective economy","authors":"R. Veninga","doi":"10.1108/09576060210436678","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/09576060210436678","url":null,"abstract":"Outlines some of the major reasons why trust has eroded in contemporary organizations: overwork, changing work schedules, lack of financial resources, and lack of managerial integrity. Provides strategies corporations can use to rebuild trust: including surveying employees about their attitudes toward work; by acting on their suggestions, by being honest, demonstrating empathy and by being sensitive to family issues.","PeriodicalId":100314,"journal":{"name":"Computer Integrated Manufacturing Systems","volume":"13 1","pages":"419-424"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73581731","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Innovation as the basis of ownership and the creation of wealth","authors":"Gregg Li, R. Tricker, C. Wong","doi":"10.1108/09576060210436687","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/09576060210436687","url":null,"abstract":"Puts forward the view that the creative and innovative process with which wealth is created should also belong to the innovators, not just the financial investors. Innovation processes primarily arise from the hearts of the innovators, who over the years have not been adequately compensated in terms of share ownership, and only in recent years the influx of stock options to these generators of growth and wealth has been seen as one means of making up for that difference. In entrepreneurial firms this arrangement is well understood and the founder‐entrepreneur is compensated with stocks. As the organizations become larger, this innovative perspective begins to dissipate, to the extent that one forgets to pay attention and identify innovators in one’s organization, who have been innovating products to meet the demands of the market and, in turn, allow the organization to continue for another day. As a result, it has been forgotten that one key role of the board of directors should be the harnessing of the innovative energies in the workforce, such that wealth can continue to be created. Presents a perspective with regard to innovation and how, by rewarding and tightening the link between innovation and share ownership, one is in fact rewarding the creation of wealth, particularly in this ever‐changing knowledge economy.","PeriodicalId":100314,"journal":{"name":"Computer Integrated Manufacturing Systems","volume":"49 1","pages":"425-434"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78520845","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Web‐based simulation portal for investigating impacts of sharing production information on supply chain dynamics from the perspective of inventory allocation","authors":"J. Lau, G. Huang, K. Mak","doi":"10.1108/09576060210429801","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/09576060210429801","url":null,"abstract":"Information sharing and coordination between buyer and vendor have been considered as useful strategies to improve supply chain performance. The debate is about what information to share and how to share most cost‐effectively to maximize the mutual benefits of the supply chain as a whole and the individual business players. Proposes a systematic framework for investigating the impacts of sharing production information on the supply chain dynamic performance. This framework supports supply chain researches to study impacts of information sharing under various scenarios. Examines, under the framework, an inventory allocation problem in an arborescent distribution supply chain with two distribution channels competing for the same source of supply. Finds that the levels of benefits by sharing information vary with different players involved in the supply chain. Suggests some guidelines to balance the benefits in a supply chain in order to motivate information sharing.","PeriodicalId":100314,"journal":{"name":"Computer Integrated Manufacturing Systems","volume":"111 1","pages":"345-358"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79240836","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"E‐commerce in production: some experiences","authors":"F. Dignum","doi":"10.1108/09576060210429739","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/09576060210429739","url":null,"abstract":"This paper will report on a number of e‐commerce projects at production companies in The Netherlands. It has been shown that there is no unique model for the introduction of e‐commerce in production companies. Companies can start to use e‐commerce at different ends of the organization, with different objectives and different (positive) outcomes, depending on the market situation and the state of ICT awareness within the company. Objectives might range from cutting costs on purchase procedures to increasing customer intimacy. ICT awareness can range from having one PC (personal computer) for a department with no Internet connection to a completely functioning intranet and Internet connection for each employee. The paper will be concluded with some current trends in e‐commerce, especially on the increased use of electronic markets between the companies within the same vertical market segment.","PeriodicalId":100314,"journal":{"name":"Computer Integrated Manufacturing Systems","volume":"21 1","pages":"283-294"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81423483","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ASP‐driven e‐service platform for Web‐based online manufacturing","authors":"P. Jiang, Guanghui Zhou, Yong Liu","doi":"10.1108/09576060210429757","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/09576060210429757","url":null,"abstract":"Extends the concept of e‐service to the whole phase of manufacturing. Develops an e‐service platform prototype based on this concept with Java Web solution including the mobile agent broking technologies and application service provider (ASP) principle. The key point to implement the platform is to enable an open Web information service infrastructure for the whole product manufacturing chain. Inside this infrastructure, product‐specific online manufacturing system can be created by means of using a kind of bidding model. All users participating in the manufacturing process are able to cooperatively finish manufacturing tasks in real time through sharing the same platform. With the help of BOM flow, the global information service flow can be controlled easily. In addition, the legacy hardware/software can also be encapsulated with aglets that are Java mobile agents. As to new ASP software packages, they can be configured simply via the plug and play mode to the e‐service platform. In this way, the on‐line networked manufacturing can be tested.","PeriodicalId":100314,"journal":{"name":"Computer Integrated Manufacturing Systems","volume":"22 1","pages":"306-318"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90041148","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A survey and implementation framework for industrial‐oriented Web‐based applications","authors":"Q. Peng","doi":"10.1108/09576060210429766","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/09576060210429766","url":null,"abstract":"Internet technology is changing the way of product development, ranging from information gathering, product managing and commerce to product development, and maintenance. In order to obtain the evidence of the extent of Web‐based applications in industry, we did a survey to examine the impact and need of the Internet in product development under industrial environments. This paper provides a view of Internet‐based applications in Canadian industry based on the data received from 42 Canadian small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), which results in a solution to improve current Web‐based industrial applications. A framework of an industrial‐oriented Web‐centred system is proposed based on the demand found from the survey. Some examples are provided to demonstrate applications of the proposed framework.","PeriodicalId":100314,"journal":{"name":"Computer Integrated Manufacturing Systems","volume":"32 1","pages":"319-327"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87952685","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}