A value stream oriented organisational structure following the Lean philosophy, often is seen as contradictory to the concept of self directed teamwork (SDT). Whereas SDT is broadly defined by the takeover of responsibilities for a certain range of management tasks by a team within defined boundaries Lean is defined as an approach of continuous improvement for process design and development wit...

Two measures for computing the cost of intermediate projects--a ratio of cost to charges and relative value units--are highly flawed and can have serious financial implications for the hospitals that use them. Full-cost accounting, using the principles of activity-based costing, enables hospitals to measure their costs more accurately, both for competitive bidding purposes and to manage them mo...

The Japanese automotive industry is based around principles of “lean thinking”, and attaches great importance to reducing waste and focusing on those activities which add value for the customer. There has recently been interest in applying similar principles in service industry environments, including communications providers. This paper discusses the application of lean principles to BT, and d...

problem statement: the research's problem lies in the fact that deploying m-commerce technology in jordan represent the first serious trail to understand and explore the critical determinants that affect deploying mobile commerce technology. approach: this research applied tam model using the following variables: perceived trust, perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, social and cultural ...

Value Stream Mapping (VSM) is a tool used in lean operations. Existing cases show how it has been used to launch a Lean organization or trigger large improvements, but there is little information on its use in merging the work streams of two discrete companies. This paper will discuss this approach.

in the recent decade, given the importance of customer in online environment, creating loyalty has been proposed as an essential challenge for electronic stores. the present study focuses on the role of trust in order to facilitate the process of making e-customers loyal. to this end, a model was proposed that especially focuses on individual factors ( perceived usefulness, perceived ease of us...

Information Technology has permeated many facets of work life in industrialized nations. With the expansion of Internet access we are now witnessing an expansion of the use of information technology in the form of electronic commerce. This current study tests the applicability of one prominent information technology uptake model, the Technology Acceptance Model (Int. J. Man Mach. Stud. 38 (1993...