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Simulation games for engaging students when teaching operations and supply chain management to students: Using the QpQ simulation game as an example (2024)
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In simulation games, a form of generative learning, students play an active role in their own learning process, seen as key to gaining and retaining knowledge. This chapter presents its advantages, different takes on how to achieve desired learning o... Read More about Simulation games for engaging students when teaching operations and supply chain management to students: Using the QpQ simulation game as an example.

Characterising redistributed manufacturing in healthcare through the lens of transdisciplinary innovation (2023)
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This chapter explores the emergence of Redistributed Manufacturing (RDM) as a disruptive system that can help address wicked or complex problems in healthcare, which cannot easily be solved by individual disciplines alone. RDM is presented as a new f... Read More about Characterising redistributed manufacturing in healthcare through the lens of transdisciplinary innovation.

Impact of digital technology on supply chain efficiency in manufacturing industry (2022)
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With the advancement of digital technologies, supply chain management is changing dramatically. However, the practice and application of digital supply chains are complex and challenging. Some studies claim that technology is the core element, while... Read More about Impact of digital technology on supply chain efficiency in manufacturing industry.

An overview for reducing food loss and food waste in supply chains (2022)
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Creating systems designs by considering a balance between economic, environmental and social effects is significant in today’s sustainability concern. Sustainability has become an emerging topic, growing concerns and attention for companies. Especial... Read More about An overview for reducing food loss and food waste in supply chains.

Understanding the role of digital technologies in supply chain risks management (2021)
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Supply chain risks have been regarded as one of the most significant threats to business continuity. Digital technology is considered to reform human production and manufacturing methods. In the recent wake of COVID-19, disruptive digital technologie... Read More about Understanding the role of digital technologies in supply chain risks management.

Impact of new technology on sustainability of supply chains: Empirical evidence from manufacturing SMEs in China (2021)
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New manufacturing technology can provide useful competitive advantages for enterprises to deal with fierce competition, and help them look for a better solution to production and operation management improving the quality of product services. New tec... Read More about Impact of new technology on sustainability of supply chains: Empirical evidence from manufacturing SMEs in China.

Digital servitization and modularity: Responding to requirements in use (2021)
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When moving towards digitally enabled advanced services firms are faced with the challenge of servicing heterogeneous customer requirements that emerge during product use. Whereas offers may have been designed with fixed functionality and a focus on... Read More about Digital servitization and modularity: Responding to requirements in use.

Facilitating students’ (doctoral) transition to the workplace: A critical review (2019)
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The recent ongoing changes to the UK higher education sector have put immense pressure on both academics and students. Where academics are working hard to enhance the quality of the educational product, students, on the other hand, are struggling wit... Read More about Facilitating students’ (doctoral) transition to the workplace: A critical review.

Big data application in manufacturing industry (2018)
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Proliferation of modes of communication today also implies that people are generating a wide variety of data by themselves. At the same time the value of organisations has become increasingly dependent on the amount and type of data that it holds abo... Read More about Big data application in manufacturing industry.

Advanced supply chains: Visibility, blockchain and human behaviour (2017)
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Technological advances over the last decade saw the rise of ICT and IoT, paving the way for the Supply Chain of Things. Blockchain technology was one of the most recent and potentially most significant developments. Blockchain technology are secure b... Read More about Advanced supply chains: Visibility, blockchain and human behaviour.

Blockchain for good? Digital ledger technology and sustainable development goals (2017)
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Blockchain technology (aka Distributed Ledger Technology or DLT) is a novel configuration of Peer-to-Peer, cryptographic and distributed computing technologies that have the potential to shift the internet from an internet of information to an intern... Read More about Blockchain for good? Digital ledger technology and sustainable development goals.

Conversations in search of audiences: Prospects and challenges of marketing UK’s postgraduate higher education using social media (2016)
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It is no surprise that there are serious disparities between the rhetoric of education and the realities of education. Marketing of university curricula is a challenge that is increasingly becoming a difficult proposition as advances in social media... Read More about Conversations in search of audiences: Prospects and challenges of marketing UK’s postgraduate higher education using social media.

Internal market orientation and strategy implementation (2016)
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Managing People within organisations is a complex and intricate challenge much insight can be gained from complementing the mainstream trends with other research fields. This Chapter shall focus on the role Internal Marketing Orientation (IMO) as a k... Read More about Internal market orientation and strategy implementation.

The English patient experience: Does healthcare service quality matter? (2015)
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The performance of family doctors has the potential for considerable impact on overall patient care and satisfaction. This chapter focuses on publicly funded GP surgeries in England, considering the impact of performance measurement on patient satisf... Read More about The English patient experience: Does healthcare service quality matter?.

Knowledge management in China’s organisations (2014)
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Ashford Castle Hotel: Epitome of an excellent service experience (2014)
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Ashford Castle Hotel is one of the world’s finest five star luxury hotels, located in County Mayo on the dramatic west coast of Ireland. The castle dates from the 13th century and has been continuously occupied since then. The hotel is a member of Le... Read More about Ashford Castle Hotel: Epitome of an excellent service experience.

Project Management as Management Innovation (2014)
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Innovation management and dynamic capability (2013)
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A comparative study of the implementation status of lean Six Sigma in South Korea and the UK (2013)
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© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2013. Fierce competition and more complex customer needs and demands have forced organizations to continuously improve their operations and the quality of their products and services. Over the last deca... Read More about A comparative study of the implementation status of lean Six Sigma in South Korea and the UK.

Lean six sigma supply chain case study: Aircraft shipment improvement in a pharmaceutical company (2013)
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© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2013. Distribution is an important activity in the integrated supply-chain management for pharmaceutical products, especially when these goods have to travel long distances from manufacturing facilities... Read More about Lean six sigma supply chain case study: Aircraft shipment improvement in a pharmaceutical company.