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Employability, a topic for knowledge exchange to strategically positioning higher education institutions (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Wiele, P. V., Khalid, F., Ribiere, V., & Ermine, J. (2015). Employability, a topic for knowledge exchange to strategically positioning higher education institutions. In V. Ribière, & L. Worasinchai (Eds.), Proceedings of The 12th International Conference on Intellectual Capital Knowledge Management & Organisational Learning ICICKM 2015 (309-315)

Over the last 2 decades employability has worldwide become a key item on the public agenda due to changing labour market requirements and changing career perspectives. This has sparked a strong debate around Higher Educational Institutions’ (HEIs) fi... Read More about Employability, a topic for knowledge exchange to strategically positioning higher education institutions.

Using BIM to automate construction site activities (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Omar, H. S., & Dulaimi, M. F. (2015). Using BIM to automate construction site activities. In H. Omar (Ed.), Building Information Modelling (BIM) in Design, Construction and Operations (45 - 58). https://doi.org/10.2495/bim150051

Controlling construction site operations is one of the crucial overriding concerns for the clients and contractors, as the majority of the construction delays tend to occur in the construction phase. It is not surprising to see interest in deploying... Read More about Using BIM to automate construction site activities.

Investigating the impact of short food supply chain on emigration: A study of Valencia community in Spain (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Falguieres, M., Kumar, V., Lim, M. K., Garza-Reyes, J. A., Kumari, A., Lim, M. K., & Rocha-Lona, L. (2015). Investigating the impact of short food supply chain on emigration: A study of Valencia community in Spain. In IFAC-PapersOnLine (2226-2232). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ifacol.2015.06.419

© 2015, IFAC (International Federation of Automatic Control) Hosting by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Recent financial crisis had severe impact on many economies around the globe. In Spain, it has resulted in increasing job loss, increasing shor... Read More about Investigating the impact of short food supply chain on emigration: A study of Valencia community in Spain.

Adoption of operations improvement methods in the Greek engineering sector (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Lim, M. K., Garza-Reyes, J. A., Garza-Reyes, J., Zisis, S., Kumar, V., & Rocha-Lona, L. (2015). Adoption of operations improvement methods in the Greek engineering sector. In Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management. , (1-8). https://doi.org/10.1109/IEOM.2015.7093947

© 2015 IEEE. This paper presents an initial research that explores the awareness and adoption of Lean Manufacturing (LM), Lean Six Sigma (LSS), Quick Response Manufacturing (QRM) and Theory Of Constraints (TOC) in the Greek engineering sector. An exp... Read More about Adoption of operations improvement methods in the Greek engineering sector.

Corporate Sustainability and Business Excellence (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Lim, M. K., Rocha-Lona, L., Garza-Reyes, J. A., Kumar, V., & Lim, M. K. (2015). Corporate Sustainability and Business Excellence. In Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management. , (1-7). https://doi.org/10.1109/IEOM.2015.7093844

© 2015 IEEE. This paper discusses the suitability for Business Excellence Models (BEMs) to include Corporate Sustainability on business model criteria. The conceptual paper brings discussion of what sort of measures are required to fit organizations'... Read More about Corporate Sustainability and Business Excellence.