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Product Description: Applied Production and Operations Management

Evans/Lindsay is a market leader in this area. James Evans is a well-known author in the field, and is the current president of the Decision Sciences Institute. With his past experience as an examiner for the Malcolm Baldrige Award, the text, chapters and content, are heavily influenced by the framework and essential content of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award criteria. The authors believe the principles of total quality as reflected in the Baldrige Award provide the best overall synthesis of the concept of quality. The text continues to provide a managerially-oriented, integrated view but also blends technical topics as well. All chapters have been updated to reflect the most current thinking in the profession.

Not long ago total quality was just a buzzword. Today, Total Quality is an integral component of management success in today's complex business environment. This text presents an overview of the key principles of total quality and links those concepts to traditional management practices and organizational models in management theory. This book has three objectives: 1) to familiarize readers with the basic principles and methods associated with total quality management; 2) to show readers how these principles and methods have been put into effect in a variety of organizations; and, 3) to illustrate the relationship between total quality principles and the theories and models studied in management courses.

Product Description: This text provides a balanced introduction to production operations management, combining managerial issues with technical tools and quantitative applications, and emphasizing practical applications in actual organizations throughout the text...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Evans/Lindsay is a market leader in the TQM field. James Evans, a well-known author, is the current president of the Decision Sciences Institute. With his past experience as an examiner for the Malcolm Baldrige Award, the entire book is heavily influenced by the framework and essential content of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award criteria...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The focus of this book is on using data and spreadsheet models effectively for the analysis of business problems and decision making. Included are discussions of building good spreadsheet models; data collection, visualization, and statistical analysis; forecasting; optimization using Excel Solver; decision and risk analysis; and simulation using Crystal Ball add-in for Excel and Arena BE...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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This concise text covers the basic concepts of business statistics and data analysis in a contemporary spreadsheet environment. The author emphasizes practical applications of the approaches to business decision making. Some of the text highlights include: *Concise approach-This book integrates fundamental concepts of business statistics and decision-making in eight chapters. The author takes a practical, nonmathematical approach. *Practical applications-A comprehensive database, using marketing, finance, and production data, is used throughout the text to give students hands-on experience in analyzing data for practical decisions. *Spreadsheet emphasis-The emphasis is on using spreadsheets for data analysis and decision modeling. The book features Excel and the Excel add-ins: PHStat and the student edition of Crystal Ball Professional 2000. About the CD-ROM EVERY NEW COPY OF THIS TEXTBOOK IS PACKAGED WITH A CD-ROM CONTAINING SOFTWARE ESSENTIAL FOR THIS COURSE: *PHStat2-Spreadsheet add-in for statistics *Crystal Ball-Spreadsheet add-in for simulation and risk analysis This free CD-ROM also contains all of the Excel files required for many of the examples in this text. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Raturi's Princples of Operations Management is an abbreviated operations management text aimed specifically at the 4 to 10 week long MBA-level OM course.