Strategic and operational remanufacturing mental models

Distance Education Strategy: Mental Models and Strategic Choices

What issues do distance education (DE) leaders believe will influence the future of DE? What are their colleges’ DE strategies? This qualitative study compares DE strategic thinking and strategic choices at three community colleges. Two propositions are investigated: (1) each college’s DE leaders use common strategic mental models (ways of thinking about key environmental issues and relationshi...

Aftermarket remanufacturing strategic planning decision-making framework: theory practice

The authors of this paper offer an aftermarket, remanufacturing (or reman) decision-making framework (RDMF), developed, based on a comprehensive set of strategic factors (Subramoniam et al., 2009a) derived from an in-depth literature review and case studies. RDMF is also grounded on results from an industry survey and related theory. The survey targeted Original Equipment (OE) suppliers that ar...

Strategic Issues in Closed-Loop Supply Chains with Remanufacturing

In this chapter we look at the strategic issue facing firms regarding whether or not to remanufacture their used products. We identify some direct costs of remanufacturing as well as some opportunity costs that should be included in a firm’s decision to remanufacture or support the secondary market of remanufactured products. We also explore how this decision may change under different competit...

Simulation-Based Models of Emergency Departments: Operational, Tactical and Strategic Staffing: Online Supplement

Simulation-Based Models of Emergency Departments: Operational, Tactical and Strategic Staffing: Online Supplement S. Zeltyn, B. Carmeli, O. Greenshpan, Y. Mesika, S. Wasserkrug, P. Vortman IBM Haifa Research Lab, Israel AND Y. Marmor, A. Mandelbaum, A. Shtub, T. Lauterman Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel AND D. Schwartz, K. Moskovitch, S. Tzafrir, F. Basis Rambam Health ...

Hospitals Strategic and Operational Plans: Unwillingness, lack of Success, and prosperity: A letter to the editor