Global Cases in Benchmarking: Best Practices from Organizations Around the World

Global Cases in Benchmarking: Best Practices from Organizations Around the World Review

Recognized as an international leader in benchmarking, Robert C. Camp delivers another anticipated best seller. The book contains actual success stories and case studies, written by domestic and international experts that demonstrate the power of benchmarking. The main point of the book is to show that sharing best practices through benchmarking is universally applicable and can be applied to a wide cross section of topics, problems, and more importantly, processes.

Industrial Dislocation: The Case of Global Shipbuilding

Industrial Dislocation: The Case of Global Shipbuilding Review

Over the past decade there has been much discussion on the decline and depression of heavy industry in developed Western countries. This is in stark contrast to the rapid growth in this area in the newly industrialized countries of the Far East. The shipbuilding industry has become symbolic of this dislocation. This study considers how this situation arose. The author argues that three points are central: industrial life cycles, the international division of labour and the energy crises of 1973. He emphasizes that the processes of industrial maturity (and in particular Japanese attitudes towards them), the removal of barriers to entry and the lengthening product life cycle encouraged new companies at a time when hard-pressed traditional producers were falling at the twin hurdles of declining competitiveness and dwindling markets.

Making Urban Transport Sustainable (Global Issues)

Making Urban Transport Sustainable (Global Issues) Review

Making Urban Transport Sustainable addresses the future of urban transport as a global issue. Money is being poured into roads, railways, and airports at a time when the global atmosphere is threatened and oil production has reached its peak. If the world's environment and societies are to be sustained, urban transport has to change. Contributions by experts from the developed and developing worlds discuss the severity of the problem and suggest potential solutions.

Shipping Company Strategies: Global Management under Turbulent Conditions

Shipping Company Strategies: Global Management under Turbulent Conditions Review

This book is about developing implementable strategies for shipping firms. It opens with an initial historical retrospective that highlights cases on A.P. Moller-Maersk and Leif Hoegh and Co. Here the reader is introduced to the global nature of competition in shipping, as well as the volatility of shipping markets. The book then turns to the question of how to play these markets. It looks at commodity based shipping company strategies for the bulk carrier, tanker container-ship and other segments. Here, the focus is on both going long-short, in-out, and maintaining a low cost base. Next is a discussion of operations versus asset play. The book analyzes Marsoft's forecasting methodology, with case studies on The Torvald Klaveness Group, Norden, Frontline and Teekay. The book then takes a close look at the challenge of driving one's strategy towards niches, i.e. on-commodity segments, with a spotlight on how to find a viable business opportunity and develop a defendable strength there. Examples come from I.M. Skaugen, Farstad Shipping, The Torvald Klaveness Group and Leif Hoegh and Co. Since overall corporate-wide portfolio strategies can be important in shipping, particularly if the various elements in the portfolio are relatively unrelated, the next part of the book turns to analytical approaches, citing several examples. Then follows a discussion of key organizational issues, particularly how to create and sustain more effective, predominantly network-based organizations. The penultimate subject is the important role the board of directors can play here. Finally, the role of family firms, and the future of shipping firms, is discussed, again with several rich examples.

The World Market for Machines for Making Paper Cartons, Boxes, Cases, Tubes, Drums, or Similar Containers: A 2009 Global Trade Perspective

The World Market for Machines for Making Paper Cartons, Boxes, Cases, Tubes, Drums, or Similar Containers: A 2009 Global Trade Perspective Review

This report was created for strategic planners, international executives and import/export managers who are concerned with the market for machines for making paper cartons, boxes, cases, tubes, drums, or similar containers. With the globalization of this market, managers can no longer be contented with a local view. Nor can managers be contented with out-of-date statistics that appear several years after the fact. I have developed a methodology, based on macroeconomic and trade models, to estimate the market for machines for making paper cartons, boxes, cases, tubes, drums, or similar containers for those countries serving the world market via exports or supplying from various countries via imports. I do so for the current year based on a variety of key historical indicators and econometric models. On the demand side, exporters and strategic planners approaching the world market face a number of questions. Which countries are supplying machines for making paper cartons, boxes, cases, tubes, drums, or similar containers? What is the dollar value of these imports? How much do the imports of machines for making paper cartons, boxes, cases, tubes, drums, or similar containers vary from one country to another? Do exporters serving the world market have similar market shares across the importing countries? Which countries supply the most exports of machines for making paper cartons, boxes, cases, tubes, drums, or similar containers? Which countries are buying their exports? What is the value of these exports and which countries are the largest buyers?