Glenn Parry's Outputs (73)

Exploring production of social and economic value in social enterprises through a business model framework (2024)
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This study explores how social enterprises create social and economic value through business models that support ex-offenders. The work was motivated by a request for help from an entrepreneur wishing to establish a business that supports ex-offender... Read More about Exploring production of social and economic value in social enterprises through a business model framework.

Redistributed manufacturing ecosystem for healthcare: An in-depth case study of on-body manufacturing using a micro-factory (2023)
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The shift from centralised to redistributed manufacturing (RDM) enables lower volume production closer to the site of use. The potential benefits of RDM are highlighted in the literature, but in this emerging field, understanding of how its adoption... Read More about Redistributed manufacturing ecosystem for healthcare: An in-depth case study of on-body manufacturing using a micro-factory.

Data, resilience, and identity in the digital age (2023)
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COVID-19: How community businesses in England struggled to respond to their communities’ needs (2021)
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Economic policies tend to downplay social and community considerations in favour of market-led and business-focussed support. The COVID-19 pandemic underscored the need for greater and deeper social cohesion and local social support networks while hi... Read More about COVID-19: How community businesses in England struggled to respond to their communities’ needs.

Broken chocolate: Biomarkers as a method for delivering cocoa supply chain visibility (2021)
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Purpose: This paper examines the potential of “biomarkers” to provide immutable identification for food products (chocolate), providing traceability and visibility in the supply chain from retail product back to farm. Design/methodology/approach: Thi... Read More about Broken chocolate: Biomarkers as a method for delivering cocoa supply chain visibility.

Financial resilience, income dependence and organisational survival in UK charities (2021)
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The financial well-being of the charity sector has important social implications. Numerous studies have analysed whether the concentration of income in a few sources increases financial vulnerability. However, few studies have systematically consider... Read More about Financial resilience, income dependence and organisational survival in UK charities.

Limited evidence for servitisation in UK publishing: An empirical analysis (2020)
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Servitisation is a strategic transition of firms towards the creation of additional value through services. In this study, we adopt a data-driven approach and assume that company activity descriptions are representative of their activity and partly r... Read More about Limited evidence for servitisation in UK publishing: An empirical analysis.

How additive manufacturing allows products to absorb variety in use: Empirical evidence from the defensive industry (2020)
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The normative assumption holds that a product’s structural and functional elements are fixed pre-production to support manufacturing efficiency. Firms servitizing are faced with delivering resources for customers in context and absorbing contextual v... Read More about How additive manufacturing allows products to absorb variety in use: Empirical evidence from the defensive industry.

A framework to explore the functioning and sustainability of business models (2019)
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© 2019 Institution of Chemical Engineers This paper presents a framework to enable case study analysis of sustainable development from business models innovation. Increasing economic development can give rise to trade-offs between economic growth and... Read More about A framework to explore the functioning and sustainability of business models.

Does business model experimentation in dynamic contexts enhance value capture? (2018)
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Copyright © 2018 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. Established theory suggests that firms experiment with business models in dynamic contexts. However, the relationship between business model experimentation and organisational performance remains unclear... Read More about Does business model experimentation in dynamic contexts enhance value capture?.

Towards digital transformation: Lessons learned from traditional organizations (2018)
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© 2018 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Digitally enabled organizations are supported by new information and communication technologies, referred to as digital technologies, which increasingly promise enormous opportunities for growth. The study reviews 10... Read More about Towards digital transformation: Lessons learned from traditional organizations.

Digital business models: Taxonomy and future research avenues (2018)
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© 2018 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Digital technologies reshape the competitive landscape as firms develop new means of value creation, delivery, and capture. The implementation and suitability of digital business models depend largely on the resources... Read More about Digital business models: Taxonomy and future research avenues.

Windowing television content: Lessons for digital business models (2018)
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© 2018 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. There is a market for successful distribution of television content using a Windowing strategy. This article investigates if a strategy where content is made available to consumers through different channels over time... Read More about Windowing television content: Lessons for digital business models.

The future of money and further applications of the blockchain (2017)
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© 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Blockchain technology provides an exciting application space for innovation in diverse domains but threatens disintermediation for organizations providing a trusted and auditable account of ownership and transactions.... Read More about The future of money and further applications of the blockchain.

Visibility and digital art: Blockchain as an ownership layer on the Internet (2017)
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© 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Visibility of digital art and its ownership can be achieved using blockchain technology as part of a broader solution for the identification, attribution, and payment for digital work. A case study is provided of a fi... Read More about Visibility and digital art: Blockchain as an ownership layer on the Internet.

Blockchain for good? (2017)
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© 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. The blockchain innovation appears to represent viable catalysts for achieving global sustainable development targets. Projects and initiatives seeking to extend the reach of distributed ledger technologies (DLTs) seem... Read More about Blockchain for good?.

Selling digital services abroad: How do extrinsic attributes influence foreign consumers’ purchase intentions? (2017)
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© 2017 The Authors This article investigates, through the country-of-origin effect and value-in-use lenses, how the implementation of digital services creates opportunities for cultural industries to expand internationally. We argue that intrinsic at... Read More about Selling digital services abroad: How do extrinsic attributes influence foreign consumers’ purchase intentions?.

Mapping a product-service-system delivering defence avionics availability (2017)
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© 2017 Elsevier B.V. Long-term support agreements such as availability-based contracts are often associated with the servitization of business models in such sectors as defence aerospace. In practice, there is no unambiguous way of linking availabili... Read More about Mapping a product-service-system delivering defence avionics availability.

Servitization and advanced business services as levers for competitiveness (2017)
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In the servitization section of IMM’s special issue Vol 60/2017, we examine the current state of the domain of servitization and provide insight into emerging trends.

Servitization and deservitization: Overview, concepts, and definitions (2017)
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© 2016 Elsevier Inc. The topic of servitization has generated a considerable body of research and many conferences, as well as industry engagement. Yet, despite the extensive literature associated with this now-mature discipline, there is no broad-ba... Read More about Servitization and deservitization: Overview, concepts, and definitions.

Digital dark matter within product service systems (2017)
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© 2017, © Emerald Publishing Limited. Purpose: The unobserved benefits of digital technologies are described as digital dark matter. Product service systems (PSSs) are bundles of products and services that deliver value in use, which is unobserved bu... Read More about Digital dark matter within product service systems.

Technological capabilities, resilience capabilities and organizational effectiveness (2016)
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© 2016, © 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Previous research has defined resilience as a desirable characteristic for an organization and its members to possess when circumstances adversely change. Resilience is analysed... Read More about Technological capabilities, resilience capabilities and organizational effectiveness.

Servitization, digitization and supply chain interdependency (2016)
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© 2016 The Author(s) This study draws on literature at the intersection of servitization, digital business models and supply chain management. Work empirically explores how digital disruption has affected Business-to-Business (B2B) interdependencies.... Read More about Servitization, digitization and supply chain interdependency.

A case study in estimating avionics availability from field reliability data (2016)
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Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Under incentivized contractual mechanisms such as availability-based contracts, the support service provider and its customer must share a common understanding of equipment reliability baselines. Emphasis is... Read More about A case study in estimating avionics availability from field reliability data.

Operationalising IoT for reverse supply: the development of use-visibility measures (2016)
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© 2016, © Authors. Published by Emerald Group Publishing Limited. This work is published under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 3.0) Licence Purpose – Improvement of reverse supply chains requires accurate and timely information about the patt... Read More about Operationalising IoT for reverse supply: the development of use-visibility measures.

Knowledge Acquisition in Information System Development: A Case Study of System Developers in an International Bank (2016)
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© 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. System developers quickly acquire knowledge of the benefits and limitations of system development approaches and this knowledge enables them to adopt or adapt methodologies according to the scope and scale of projects... Read More about Knowledge Acquisition in Information System Development: A Case Study of System Developers in an International Bank.

Applying forgotten lessons in field reliability data analysis to performance-based support contracts (2016)
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Assumptions used in field reliability data analysis may be seldom made explicit or questioned in practice, yet these assumptions affect how engineering managers develop metrics for use in long-term support contracts. To address this issue, this artic... Read More about Applying forgotten lessons in field reliability data analysis to performance-based support contracts.

How does music as a digital service affect consumer attitude and behaviour? (2016)
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Digital technologies allow users to share files, which in some circumstances violates property rights and constitutes consumer misbehaviour. This form of behaviour, often called piracy, is cited as causing revenue loss to the creative industries. Exi... Read More about How does music as a digital service affect consumer attitude and behaviour?.

Recovering revenue through customerization and service channel linking (2015)
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This article aims to contribute to understanding on how to recover value chain and firm revenues through innovative service channel linking and value co-creation. The work examines how creative industry firms integrate customers as they add digital s... Read More about Recovering revenue through customerization and service channel linking.

The epistemological foundations of music piracy in the digital marketplace (2015)
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This paper examines the fundamental epistemological gap between the consumers and producers of digitally based products. Using the music industry and the significance of digital products in this arena as a case study of evolving relationships between... Read More about The epistemological foundations of music piracy in the digital marketplace.

Value and servitization; Creating complex deployed responsive services (2014)
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This paper presents a value framework which captures how manufacturing engineering firms are transforming from product to complex service provision where the service is delivered within the customer’s dynamic environment and their ability to capture... Read More about Value and servitization; Creating complex deployed responsive services.

Cutting cost in service systems: Are you running with scissors? (2014)
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A rigorous link between the domains of cost estimation, systems theory and accident investigation reveals fundamental epistemological limitations of commonly employed cost models when dealing with the characteristics of systems, particularly service... Read More about Cutting cost in service systems: Are you running with scissors?.

Servitization as a driver for organizational change (2014)
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Servitization is the move towards selling traditional product to selling a wide range of product-service bundle combinations. This movement contributes to firm sustainability and profitability and hence the competitiveness of nations.

Key points:... Read More about Servitization as a driver for organizational change.

A through-life costing methodology for use in product-service-systems (2014)
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Availability-based contracts which provide customers with the use of assets such as machines, ships, aircraft platforms or subsystems like engines and avionics are increasingly offered as an alternative to the purchase of an asset and separate suppor... Read More about A through-life costing methodology for use in product-service-systems.

The implementation of an environmental management system in the not-for-profit sector (2014)
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Purpose
This paper examines the implementation of the Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS) in a non-profit, small to medium sized enterprise (SME) in the UK.
Methodology
A four year Participatory Action Research study is made upon Knowledge Tran... Read More about The implementation of an environmental management system in the not-for-profit sector.

Copyright and creation: Repositioning the argument (2014)
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Purpose: This paper highlights the challenges and key arguments for digital copyright protection legislation for creative industries. Design/methodology/approach: This briefing is prepared by independent academics who place the arguments in context b... Read More about Copyright and creation: Repositioning the argument.

Using Data in Decision-Making: Analysis from the Music Industry (2014)
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Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd Internet use provides an increasing amount of data that has potential value for managers and policy makers but, without a precise understanding of the meaning of data, erroneous conclusions may be drawn which... Read More about Using Data in Decision-Making: Analysis from the Music Industry.

Supply and demand chain management: The effect of adding services to product offerings (2013)
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Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to understand how firms manage their product and service offerings, integrating supply chain management (SCM) and demand chain management (DCM) strategies. Adding services to the product portfolio of a firm may b... Read More about Supply and demand chain management: The effect of adding services to product offerings.

Servitization - Complex engineering service availability: Is a paradigm shift in the business model and service enterprise required? (2013)
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Servitization is the move by firms to gain value from service associated with their products, which requires a strategic rather than incremental change in the provider firm.

Enterprise imaging: Representing complex multi-organizational service enterprises (2013)
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Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to present a visualization method developed as a result of an observed need to capture the organizational arrangements of a complex engineering service enterprise. The focal case study is between a public sector... Read More about Enterprise imaging: Representing complex multi-organizational service enterprises.

Music business models and piracy (2013)
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The purpose of this paper is to estimate the scale of illegal file-sharing activity across ten countries and to correlate this activity with country revenues. The work aims to elucidate an under-explored business model challenge which exists in paral... Read More about Music business models and piracy.

Automotive enterprise transformation: Build to order as a sustainable and innovative strategy for the automotive industry? (2013)
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© IIE, INCOSE. The global financial crisis has significantly impacted the automotive industry. The crisis has reduced the supply of credit to industry, exposed process inefficiencies, and reduced credit to consumers, which has reduced sales. Firms ar... Read More about Automotive enterprise transformation: Build to order as a sustainable and innovative strategy for the automotive industry?.

Understanding complex service systems through different lenses: An overview (2012)
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The 2011 Grand Challenge in Service conference aimed to explore, analyse and evaluate complex service systems. A case scenario, improving the perception of safety in the London Borough of Sutton, provided a common context to link participant contribu... Read More about Understanding complex service systems through different lenses: An overview.

Discretion and complexity in customer focused environments (2012)
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Operations have traditionally focused on reductive analysis; transactional processes open to mass-customisation and standardisation. This study proposes that service complexity created by extensive 'reasonable' customer demand limits the ability to s... Read More about Discretion and complexity in customer focused environments.

An engineering systems approach to strategic change: The case of the European Automotive Industry (2012)
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Build to Order [BTO] refers to a demand driven production approach where the majority of products and components are scheduled and built in response to a confirmed order received for it from a final customer. A £23m EU project involving leading auto... Read More about An engineering systems approach to strategic change: The case of the European Automotive Industry.

Transitioning from a goods-dominant to a service-dominant logic: Visualising the value proposition of Rolls-Royce (2012)
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Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to present a visualisation of the firm's offering from a service-dominant logic (S-DLogic) perspective. The case of Rolls-Royce is presented as an avenue through which to explore an alternative view of the firm's... Read More about Transitioning from a goods-dominant to a service-dominant logic: Visualising the value proposition of Rolls-Royce.

The adaptation of product cost estimation techniques to estimate the cost of service (2012)
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This article presents an approach to ascertain whether product cost estimating techniques can be adapted for use in estimating the costs for providing a service. The research methodology adopted consists of a critique and analysis of the literature t... Read More about The adaptation of product cost estimation techniques to estimate the cost of service.

Going with the flow: A systems approach to how an academic health science centre creates value through collaboration (2012)
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This briefing looks at the case of Cambridge University Health Partners, the management organisation of the Cambridge Academic Health Science Centre (AHSC). An AHSC is a partnership between one or more universities and healthcare providers focusing o... Read More about Going with the flow: A systems approach to how an academic health science centre creates value through collaboration.

Servitisation and value co-production in the UK music industry: An empirical study of Consumer Attitudes (2012)
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Since the rise of music on the internet the record industry has reported falling total sales revenues. This has occurred at a time when technology has radically increased choice, availability and the opportunity for the consumer to purchase music. To... Read More about Servitisation and value co-production in the UK music industry: An empirical study of Consumer Attitudes.

The adaption of product cost estimation techniques to estimate the cost of service (2011)
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This article presents an approach to ascertain whether product cost estimating techniques can be adapted for use in
estimating the costs for providing a service. The research methodology adopted consists of a critique and analysis of
the literature... Read More about The adaption of product cost estimation techniques to estimate the cost of service.

Enterprise transformation: Why are we interested, what is it, and what are the challenges? (2011)
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© IIE, INCOSE. The concept of enterprise transformation has become increasingly popular as companies recognize the need to achieve an integrated perspective within and across organizational boundaries to address complex challenges. Yet, there is litt... Read More about Enterprise transformation: Why are we interested, what is it, and what are the challenges?.

Lean competence: Integration of theories in operations management practice (2010)
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Purpose: This paper aims to develop a methodology for lean implementation that reduces the risk of damaging a company's key resources and abilities through the application of core competence theory. Design/methodology/approach: Academic literature pr... Read More about Lean competence: Integration of theories in operations management practice.

A critique of product and service based systems (2009)
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Towards the strategic outsourcing of core competencies in the automotive industry: Threat or opportunity? (2009)
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Faced with shorter product life cycles and increased cost of capital, companies can no longer afford the capital outlay for new facilities, which may become underutilised as processes improve over the first few years of operation. Outsourcing the pro... Read More about Towards the strategic outsourcing of core competencies in the automotive industry: Threat or opportunity?.

The importance of knowledge management for ERP systems (2008)
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Enterprise resource planning (ERP) software provides a coherent integrated electronic business management environment, frequently controlling all logistics and billing for an enterprise. Many companies are now reliant upon these systems for their dai... Read More about The importance of knowledge management for ERP systems.

Toward a framework to assist servitization strategy implementation (2008)
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Advice for manufacturing companies to increase their attention to opportunities downstream of production had grown loud by the mid 1990s. Accompanying this advice lay warnings of generic, implementation issues to be addressed in the journey downstrea... Read More about Toward a framework to assist servitization strategy implementation.

Managing knowlege resources for sustainable competitive advantage (2008)
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Building on previous research which showed that the loss of staff could have a significance impact on
the out-turn performance of a project; this work seeks to explore the relationship between knowledge
management and human resource management. To... Read More about Managing knowlege resources for sustainable competitive advantage.

Blue sky thinking (2007)
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Building cars to customer order could provide the key to releasing billions of euros currently tied up in stock. Glenn Parry outlines a scheme to move the industry in this direction.

The threat to core competence posed by developing closer supply chain relationships (2006)
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Supply bases have been rationalised and now fewer “preferred” suppliers are in direct contact with customers, who demand more personal attention and greater responsiveness from them. In developing closer supplier relationships, the exchange of propri... Read More about The threat to core competence posed by developing closer supply chain relationships.

Outsourcing engineering commodity procurement (2006)
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Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to introduce and provide an insight into the benefits of outsourcing the procurement function for engineering commodity items. Design/methodology/approach - Research into the literature presents the development... Read More about Outsourcing engineering commodity procurement.

Transformation of the European auto industry: the future of lean (2006)
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Application of lean visual process management tools (2006)
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Visual process management tools have been developed by lean practitioners as communication aids and are used to help drive operations and processes in real time. Three case studies from aerospace companies describe the physical visual tools that have... Read More about Application of lean visual process management tools.

Joined up lean (2005)
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Author's views on a a lean process methodology for core competence understanding are highlighted. UK companies have been employing lean principles to great effect. They have been supported and guided in their efforts by programmes such as the UK Lean... Read More about Joined up lean.

Core competence: an enterprise analysis (2005)
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Is enterprise resource planning compatible with lean manufacturing - can push be reconciled with pull? (2005)
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Counting the cost: ERP (2005)
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Implementation and maintenance in a lean environment (2004)
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An optical method for assessing scratch damage in bulk materials and coatings (2003)
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An optical method for assessing scratch damage in bulk materials and coatings (2002)
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Corrosion resistance of Zn-Al alloy coated steels investigated using electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (1998)
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Low-co-ordination arsenic and antimony compounds: Synthesis and characterisation of 2-arsa- and 2-stiba-1,3-dionatolithium(I) complexes, [Li{OC(R)EC(R)O}L](E = As or Sb; R = But, C6H2Pri3-2,4,6 or C6H2But3-2,4,6; L = Et2O or MeOCH2CH2OMe) (1996)
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Reactions of [Li{E(SiMe3)2}(dme)] (E = As or Sb, dme = MeOCH2CH2OMe), with a range of acid chlorides, RCOCl, afforded the novel 2-arsa-1,3-dionatolithium(I) complexes [Li{OC(R)AsC(R)O}L] (R = But, L = 1/2 dme or Et2O; R = C6H2Pri3-2,4,6, L = Et2O; R... Read More about Low-co-ordination arsenic and antimony compounds: Synthesis and characterisation of 2-arsa- and 2-stiba-1,3-dionatolithium(I) complexes, [Li{OC(R)EC(R)O}L](E = As or Sb; R = But, C6H2Pri3-2,4,6 or C6H2But3-2,4,6; L = Et2O or MeOCH2CH2OMe).

Link channels or how to enhance upstream-downstream relations in servitized contexts
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By more closely engaging with their customer base firms create link channels which places the customer as the determinant in the process of understanding needs for value creation. To better understand the relevance and applicability of link channels,... Read More about Link channels or how to enhance upstream-downstream relations in servitized contexts.

Firm profitability during the servitization process in the music industry
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The music industry, as with other creative industries, has suffered a dramatic decrease in performance due to the digital disruption.

While previous literature uses revenues as a proxy for performance, this paper uses profits, confirming the link... Read More about Firm profitability during the servitization process in the music industry.