Many organizations utilize Lean Six Sigma (LSS) Organizational deployment strategies to drive business success. LSS techniques are focused on creating bottom-line business results using data driven solutions. Industrial Engineering has always been a discipline that has trained engineers to seek solutions using 1) data collection techniques, 2) statistical data evaluations, and 3) economic impac...

This paper proposes Enterprise Business Intelligence Maturity Model that involves thirteen capacity factors, which are (Strategic Management, Performance Measurement, Balanced Scorecard, Information Quality, Data Warehouse, Master Data Management, Metadata Management, Analytical, Infrastructure, Knowledge Management, People, Organization Culture and Change Management). This key objective of thi...

This paper characterizes a new industrial organization framework for analyzing ecosystem formation and competition by recognizing the Schumpeterian force of creative destruction. Economists’ profit maximization is replaced Welfare Enhancing (WEF)as more pragmatic realistic characterization reality. Consumers are not fish in ocean waiting to be preyed upon; they have free choice broad lifestyle ...

This chapter is organized around three main topics on dynamic games in empirical IO: models, econometrics, and applications. Section 2 presents the theoretical framework, introduces concept of Markov Perfect Nash Equilibrium, discusses existence multiplicity, describes representation this equilibrium terms conditional choice probabilities. We also discuss extensions basic including models conti...

From the beginning, it is important to understand why measuring an organization's performance is both necessary and vital. An organization operating without a performance measurement system is like an airplane flying without a compass, a Formula One race car driver guiding his car blindfolded, or a CEO operating without a strategic plan. The purpose of measuring performance is not only to know ...