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Showing 1 to 20 of 57 for “"Value adding"”.
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Islamic finance: a low risk, value-adding alternative
… Index and the S&P Shariah Index created higher value than the MSCI World Index and the S&P 500 Index respectively and at a much lower level of debt and therefore risk, over the timeframe analysed. Within the South African equity market, the FTSE All Share Index added more value than the FTSE …
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A Hybrid Simulation Model for Understanding and Managing Non-Value Adding Activities in Large-Scale Design and Construction Projects
The hybrid model developed in this research and the key findings gained through its application to real-world construction projects are envisioned to help construction managers to better understand and manage the dynamics of NVAAs, and ultimately minimize the risk of schedule delays and cost …
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Exploring the factors and attributes of value-adding activities and their impact on moderators and mediators within Rice Value Chains in the Ayeyarwady Delta
… In addition, customers often link quality to value subconsciously. This thesis intends to identify gaps in operational and management theory and practice between three independent actors, first mediators or business owners within 'rice milling production and second moderators or government …
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Orchestrating backward linkages from the extractive sector to other productive value adding sectors : a case study of the mining and the manufacturing industries in Zambia
… and other activities geared towards increasing valued-added local procurement.
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Factors affecting the performance of branded apparel retailers under private equity ownership
… is used as a substantive theory to question the value adding and value subtracting mechanism proposed by Campbell et al (2014). The study finds the value adding and value subtracting behaviours identified by Campbell et al (2014) do not fully apply to buy-to-sell parenting relationships. The …
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SME growth and entrepreneurial abilities: A Penrosian approach to the New Zealand seafood industry
… struggle to create, deliver and capture value. Indeed, many struggle to survive. The industry is characterised by plant closures, job losses, low returns and, according to Stringer et al. (2011), increasingly the offshoring of value-adding processing and the export of related …
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Waste Reduction in Amazon Robotics Sortable High Velocity Fulfilment Using Six-Sigma and Product Design Methods
… material waste, delivery expenses, and non-value-adding labor. Looking at the four leading Amazon Devices in 2020, the generated waste associated with these products amounts to over 100k [m^3] of packaging, comparable to 40 Olympic swimming pools, millions of dollars in excess delivery …
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An Application of Lean Thinking to the Furniture Engineering Process
… current engineering process, identify non value-added activities, and analyze the engineering performance based on selected Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) such as lead time, document error rate, and engineering throughput. A survey questionnaire was sent out to the engineering group to …
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Essays on the Management of Online Platforms: Bayesian Perspectives
… developing strategies for one or more of three value adding functions: (a) lowering search costs for the parties connecting through the platform, (b) providing a technology infrastructure that facilitates transactions at scale by sharing both demand and supply side costs; and (c) locating other …
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Investigating the application of real-time business intelligence and facilitating its justification through a proposed conceptual model
… setbacks of traditional BI, and offer a host of value adding benefits to organizations, their implementation has said to be hampered due to their technological complexities, and has required changes to the business environment, as well as the high costs required to put them in place. In addition, …
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Using publicly available financial data to measure production depth in the automobile industry
… production depth is defined as the ratio of value-adding content that a company creates itself [2]. While the impact of "make-or-buy" decisions have clear implications on a company's long-term strategies, the relationship between a company's production depth and its profitability has not yet …
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Creating sustainable home care services for older people
… group in comparison to the control group. Value adding costs increased, while, non-value adding costs were reduced. Key aspects of the intervention contributing to these findings included goal facilitation and development of personalised support plans, the coordinators enhanced input and …
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Industrial development of car disassembly - ergonomics and system performance
… to be dismantled. These materials lack market value today. For production to stay profitable in spite of increased time in non-value-adding tasks, comprehensive rationalizations were anticipated. Design for Disassembly/Recycling was not fully applied at the manufacturing. However, the need for …
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Measuring Efficiency for Egyptian Textile and Apparel Industry Using Stochastic Frontier Analysis and Data Envelopment Analysis
… chain operations and other key factors, such as value-adding capabilities, exchange rates, time, inventory turnover, quality, logistics, etc. can lead to inaccurate measures. Thus, to ensure accurate efficiency measures, these factors have to be considered. Techniques used are; SFA time-varying …
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Analysis of the relationship between foreign shareholding and ESG performance of South African listed companies
… investors into consideration. This study is value-adding in providing evidence for the South African government to mandate a national transition to better ESG practices.
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Managing unarticulated value : changeability in multi-attribute tradespace exploration
A framework for creating value robust systems in the face of changing value perceptions during the architecture and design of systems is proposed. Both unarticulated value, that which is not explicitly communicated to system designers, and dynamic value, that which changes over time, are used to …
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Control of parts : parts making in the building industry
… tool called PAct. Each diagram is a model of a "value adding" enterprise, representing materials processing, parts manipulation and assembly, and the agents involved. Its purpose is to support analysis of the interactions of agents and parts in production flows which are too complex to be held …
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Reducing variability in a semiconductor manufacturing environment
… is highly utilized and is thus introducing non-value adding queuing time for the product throughput time.
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The design of a lean automobile dismantling and recycling system
… and reduce the amount of land allocated to non-value adding buffers by 66%. Furthermore, the lean system is balanced and synchronized to the vehicle-arrival process, with increased volume flexibility. Currently, JMS anticipates implementing the design in all new facilities beginning with the …
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Aquaponics : community and economic development
… such things as alternative business models, value adding, procuring things for free, and diversifying revenue streams. Any organization or individual considering an aquaponics operation should conduct careful analysis and planning to determine if profitability is possible and to understand, …
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