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Streamlining editorial work processes to deliver twice the output in half the time
Authors: Warthrnan Mary S. , Duke Charies B. 
Published: July 2007

AbstractAlthough reengineering techniques have been broadly applied to enhance manufacturing environments and improve customer relations in the service sector, little has been written about their potential for boosting productivity in small offices occupied with the performance of repetitive tasks. Employing work process analysis tools, personal computer technology, and a redesigned physical office layout, the staff of the international technical journal Surface Science reengineered their editorial work process. As a result, they reduced the operation of a 1,000 manuscripts‐per‐year office to a part‐time assignment for the editorial office supervisor and editor. In addition, they introduced measurements of customer satisfaction to ensure continuing improvement without sacrificing the quality of their publication.
Transforming the naval district washington into a self‐renewing organization
Authors: Connon Tracy D. , Naro Edward L. , McCabe Robert J. 
Published: July 2007

AbstractIn late 1993, the Naval District Washington (NDW) embarked on a transformational journey that would reshape a rigid hierarchy of semi‐independent departments into a self‐renewing organization. Breaking down organizational barriers, focusing planning efforts centrally, realigning and streamlining its structures, and implementing a robust quality training program were all challenges NDW faced in its efforts to succeed in an ever‐changing, customer‐focused environment. This article describes the background, strategy, and challenges of an organization that is moving proactively into the 21st century while preserving the best of its 200‐year tradition.
Zeroing in on critical busiress processes to stay ahead of the competion
Authors: Thompson Fred L. 
Published: July 2007

AbstractIn today's global marketplace, achieving superior performance from the key drivers of value creation for shareholders is critical to assuring long‐term growth and prosperity. This article discusses the impact that critical business processes have on achieving superior business performance and the benefits of having a workforce that knows where the company is headed and how it plans to get there. It also outlines a plan for ensuring maximum performance from a set of carefully defined critical business processes.
Using competitue intelligence to bolster customer satisfaction at douglas aircraft company
Authors: Margulies Bob 
Published: July 2007

AbstractWhen faced with the prospect of dwindiling market share, companies need to examine how they stack up to the competition in the eyes of those who determine their long‐term fate‐their customers. Such competitive intelligence, however, is useful only if the company makes the effort to incorporate the data it obtains into subsequent investigations. At Douglas Aircaraft Company, managers used a series of survey questionnaires to measure customer satisfaction, assess company performace against the competition, and develop a game plan for improving key process areas and the survery instruments as well.
Using scenarios to beat out the competition
Authors: Fahey Liam 
Published: July 2007

AbstractThe purpose of strategy is to outmaneuver and outperform competitors, present and future. But all too often, organizations are caught off guard by their competitors' strategic initiatives, or they are surprised by a competitor's responses to their own strategic moves. Competitor scenarios offer a unique method of identifying and testing plausible competitor strategy alternatives. They also allow an organization to assess its responses to competitors' moves and select a strategy that is viable in a variety of competitive conditions. This article provides a number of distinct approaches to developing competitor scenarios and shows how a firm can fully understand the implications of issues identified in the scenarios it creates.
Relying on the power of people at saturn
Authors: White Eleanor 
Published: July 2007

AbstractSince its inception, the Saturn Corporation has served as an example of what partnership, teamwork, and principle‐centered leadership can accomplish in an organization that thoroughly understands and tries to apply those concepts. Dedicated to quality and productivity, the company believes that meeting the needs of people—customers, suppliers, team members, retailers, and the community—is the only route to long‐term growth and profitability in a global economy. Its experiences in achieving this goal can light the way for other companies that are struggling with releasing the reins of positional power and transitioning to a team‐oriented environment.
Aprimer in measuring outsourcing results
Authors: Anderson Merrill C. 
Published: July 2007

AbstractOutsourcing of support work is reshaping the organizational landscape of U.S.‐based firms. The rationale for most of this outsourcing has been to lower fixed costs and improve the performance of those services. Although business leaders generally agree on the importance of measuring outsourcing results, little has been written on how best to do so. This article attempts to redress this gap in information by providing readers with some ideas on how to measure outsourcing results. A key point is that organizations must learn to utilize measurement as a way to improve the quality of the relationship between the customer and the vendor—not just the quality of service.
Champions for transition: Developing community‐based quality initiatives into learning networks
Authors: Dedeke A. 
Published: July 2007

AbstractDesigned to instill total quality management concepts at the community level, community‐based quality initiatives, also known as excellence councils, are becoming prevalent throughout North America. But what makes them effective, and what is needed for them to survive? In this article, the author points to his research to detail the importance of leadership from a champion during critical transition phases and outlines five key characteristics that the champion must possess to ensure the initiative's growth and success.
Increased throughput with rapid changeovers at tenneco
Authors: Klopsic Albert R. , Houser William F. 
Published: July 2007

AbstractIs it possible to increase output by reducing changeover times on a quasi‐continuous process? Yes, say the employees and managers of one New Jersey production facility. As their experience shows, the key to productivity improvement lies not in investing in state‐of‐the‐art technology, but in identifying an efficient production methodology that taps the full potential of those machines and, more important, those who operate them.
Improuing shop floor operations through production sequencing at EMC technology
Authors: Joy Louis W. , Smith Francis 
Published: July 2007

AbstractWhy is it that even with advanced information technology and engineering resources, a vast majority of manufacturing organizations express dissatisfaction with the priority and capacity planning and control systems that drive the shop floor?.Since there is no standard method for planning and scheduling manufacturing, manufacturing professionals must evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the various shop floor management system alternatives, and select the appropriate application of each in the factory.At EMC Technology, Inc., management was able to meet the demands of its customers by employing production sequencing, a priority and capacity planning and control system that integrates the best of material requirements planning, kanban, finite scheduling, and demand‐based flow techniques.
Deueloping and maintaining core expertise in the midst of change
Authors: Swanson Richard A. , Holton Elwood F. 
Published: July 2007

AbstractThe contemporary management literature speaks powerfully about the struggle organizations are having in connecting their leadership roles and organizational systems to intellectual capital and workplace expertise of individual contributors—the fuel of an organization. This case study supports two core ideas that have been proven to work. First, it demonstrates the connection between business strategy and the development of process‐referenced expertise in individual employees. Second, it goes beyond the traditional job and task analysis model and into a contemporary and more comprehensive business performance improvement model.
A decade of euolution in a refinery laboratory
Authors: Hartshorn Kay , Burg Richard 
Published: July 2007

AbstractGetting people engaged in and excited about their work in today's uncertain environment is one of management's greatest challenges. By making courageous decisions and through constancy of purpose, the leaders of the laboratory at the Chevron El Segundo Refinery created a place in which people really do enjoy their work. This article details the laboratory's experience over the past decade in creating an open, caring, and productive environment.
Improuing supply chain performance by using order fulfillment metrics
Authors: Johnson M. Eric , Davis Tom 
Published: July 2007

AbstractIn the past, companies hoping to impress customers on delivery responsiveness did so by allowing inventories to bloat. Today the costs of holding inventory, especially in high‐technology markets, prohibit that behavior. Companies must now provide good service while maintaining low inventories. Thus, managers must carefully measure and manage their two conflicting objectives: service and inventory. The challenge is to improve customer delivery service and reduce inventories simultaneously. Such results can be achieved through thoughtful supply chain management.
Putting commitment to work through short‐cycle kaizen
Authors: Heard Ed 
Published: July 2007

AbstractContinuous improvement is all the rage in the world of manufacturing. A few programs get incremental results so fast that improvement looks continuous. Others, however, yield little because they put systems and people under a constant state of tension, demanding ever‐better results without providing improvement tools or education. Successful programs rely on repeated, rapid but very systematic, methodology‐based, crossfunctional attacks on bite‐size plant floor targets. When the goal is continuous improvement, short‐cycle kaizen is the gift that keeps on giving, but it is not free. Its price is measured not in dollars, but in the self‐discipline it takes to conquer old habits, learn new methodologies, and rigorously adhere to new improvement protocols. Forget your old kaizen paradigm. This is a whole new ball game, and it's played by different rules.
Reducing patient‐flow cycle time in the emergency room of an inner‐city hospital
Authors: Olivero Gerald , Kopelman Richard E. 
Published: July 2007

AbstractAfter five years of intensively studying its patient‐flow processes, an inner‐city hospital still had an unacceptably long patient‐flow cycle time. Finally, an ad hoc cross‐functional team took actions that reduced the average cycle time of 18.1 hours to 9.4 hours. This 48 percent reduction in cycle time corresponded to a 92.5 percent increase in productivity. Concomitantly, the estimated 4.1‐week payback period amounted to an annual return on investment of 1,271 percent. Here is how the hospital achieved such dramatic improvements.
Checking in under marriott's first ten program
Authors: Knight Emily , Amsler Gordon M. 
Published: July 2007

AbstractWhat can a hotel do to better serve its customers? One answer to that question, the Marriott Hotel Corporation discovered, was speed up the check‐in procedure. In response to that finding, Marriott developed the First Ten program, which streamlines check‐in so that waiting time is virtually eliminated. As outlined in this article, the program has not only improved operational efficiency, but also boosted customer satisfaction.
Understanding the impact of a corporate buyout
Authors: Rieley James B. , Leahy Charles 
Published: July 2007

AbstractThe impact of corporate buyout can be measured several ways: by a change in cultural norms, by employee productivity, or by financial performance. Each of these measurements has an impact on the others. This case study details the consequences of a buyout—how changes in the norms of an organization's culture affected employee productivity and financial performance during a 12‐month period.
Designing an organization to support those WHO do the work
Authors: Carroll Bob 
Published: July 2007

AbstractSelf‐managed teams often fail because their overall organizations—typically traditional command‐and‐control hierarchies—are not designed to support them. In such an environment, underlying assumptions and structures sooner or later work against the teams. Because such organizations are so ingrained in our culture, it is often difficult for them to recognize the fact that they are the problem. Yes, difficult, but, as this article explains, not impossible. ©1999 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
King without a castle: How local managers can manage change in a pan‐European environment
Authors: Bertels Thomas , Broadbridge John 
Published: July 2007

AbstractAs more companies become pan‐European, taking advantage of potential cost savings and growth opportunities, local management's role becomes increasingly difficult. Being part of a large organization has always had its pros and cons, but to manage change locally and remain pan‐European poses several challenges to local management. © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
On a relation between pressure‐based schemes and central schemes for hyperbolic conservation laws
Authors: Evje Steinar , Flåtten Tore , Friis Helmer André 
Published: July 2007

AbstractThe purpose of this article is to explain in more detail some ideas used recently by the authors to construct a class of hybrid explicit–implicit schemes for solving the two‐fluid model relevant for well and pipe flow simulations (Evje and Flåtten, SIAM J Sci Comput 26 (2005), 1449–1484; Evje and Flåtten, ESIAM: Math Mod Num Anal 39 (2005), 253–274; Evje and Flåtten, J Sci Comput, to appear). We here propose a framework which allows us to implement these ideas for a general system of hyperbolic conservation laws ut + f(u)x = 0. Main ingredients in this construction are (i) a splitting f(u) = g(u) + h(u) of the given flux function f; (ii) a corresponding decomposition of the original set of equations into two subsystems, one set of equations associated with the g flux, another with the h flux; (iii) inclusion of a set of flux evolution equations associated with the flux component h.We demonstrate that a sound and consistent discretization of this extended system gives rise to a class of central schemes which contains as a special case, corresponding to the splitting g = h = $1 \over 2$f, the FORCE scheme studied by Toro (Toro, Riemann Solvers and Numerical Methods for Fluid Dynamics, Springer‐Verlag, Berlin, 1999). This justifies referring to the proposed class as eXtended FORCE (X‐FORCE). We discuss basic properties of the X‐FORCE class for nonlinear scalar conservation laws. By exploiting that the X‐FORCE schemes can be interpreted through Riemann solutions, we construct higher order X‐FORCE schemes by closely following along the line of the nonstaggered NT scheme presented in (Jiang et al., SIAM J Num Anal 35 (1998), 2147–2168). Characteristic behavior of various X‐FORCE schemes is demonstrated through calculation of numerical examples. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Numer Methods Partial Differential Eq, 2008
Reaction of melamine phosphate with pentaerythritol and its products for flame retardation of polypropylene
Authors: Chen Yinghong , Wang Qi 
Published: July 2007

AbstractDue to being halogen‐free, non‐toxic, non‐erosive and environmentally friendly, melamine‐based flame retardants are attracting more and more attention. As a melamine‐based intumescent flame retardant, in this study the melamine salt of pentaerythritol phosphate (MPP) was prepared from melamine phosphate (MP) and pentaerythritol (PER). The reaction of MP with PER was then systematically investigated. The reaction product MPP was utilized to flame‐retard polypropylene (PP). FT‐IR, TGA and DSC were used to characterize MPP and also to investigate the reaction of MP and PER in depth. The experimental results show that MPP has good thermal stability and matched decomposition temperature with that of PP, making it suitable for flame retarding of PP. Also, MPP is melting‐blendable due to its softening during the heating process. The structure of MPP at a MP:PER molar ratio of 2.0 was confirmed as the same to that of the product synthesized from phosphorus oxychloride, pentaerythritol and melamine. The reaction of MP with PER was greatly influenced by the MP:PER proportion, reaction temperature and reaction time, rather than the physical state of PER, and the reaction mechanism of MP with PER was proposed. The prepared flame‐retarded polypropylene composite with 35 wt% intumescent flame‐retardant MPP has a flame retarding level of 3.2 mm UL 94 V‐0, tensile strength 27.0 MPa, Young's modulus 2442 MPa and Izod notched impact strength 3.8 kJ/m2. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
A proteomic approach towards the Hsp90‐dependent ubiquitinylated proteome
Authors: Falsone S. Fabio , Gesslbauer Bernd , Rek Angelika , Kungl Andreas J. 
Published: July 2007

AbstractSince many Hsp90 client proteins are key players in tumour pathways, the ubiquitylation and subsequent degradation of Hsp90‐substrates as a consequence of pharmacologically inhibiting Hsp90 represents an innovative approach for cancer therapy. We therefore identified Hsp90‐binding proteins which accumulated as ubiquityl‐tagged aggregates in the detergent insoluble fraction of HeLa cells as a consequence of simultaneously inhibiting Hsp90 and the proteasome. 2‐DE followed by nanoLC‐MS/MS of trypsinised protein spots provided the Hsp90‐dependent ubiquitylated proteome which was finally annotated and functionally classified. The overall picture thus obtained emphasised the well‐established role of Hsp90 in stabilising proteins involved in gene transcription and signal transduction. It also provided a novel Hsp90‐related link to metabolic pathways as the inhibition of Hsp90 caused the ubiquitylation of a significant amount of metabolic enzymes. These findings serve to support cumulating indications which attribute Hsp90 to diverse stabilising functions beyond signal transduction and gene transcription.
Global cooling: Cold acclimation and the expression of soluble proteins in carp skeletal muscle
Authors: McLean Lynn , Young Iain S. , Doherty Mary K. , Robertson Duncan H. L. , Cossins Andrew R. , Gracey Andrew Y. , Beynon Robert J. , Whitfield Phillip D. 
Published: July 2007

AbstractThe common carp (Cyprinus carpio) has a well‐developed capacity to modify muscle properties in response to changes in temperature. Understanding the mechanisms underpinning this phenotypic response at the protein level may provide fundamental insights into the molecular basis of adaptive processes in skeletal muscle. In this study, common carp were subjected to a cooling regimen and soluble extracts of muscle homogenates were separated by 1‐D SDS‐PAGE and 2‐DE. Proteins were identified using MALDI‐TOF‐MS and de novo peptide sequencing using LC‐MS/MS. The 2‐D gel was populated with numerous protein spots that were fragments of all three muscle isoforms (M1, M2 and M3) of carp creatine kinase (CK). The accumulation of the CK fragments was enhanced when the carp were cooled to 10°C. The protein changes observed in the skeletal muscle of carp subjected to cold acclimation were compared to changes described in a previous transcript analysis study. Genes encoding CK isoforms were downregulated and the genes encoding key proteins of the ubiquitin–proteasome pathway were upregulated. These findings are consistent with a specific cold‐induced enhancement of proteolysis of CK.
Response to clozapine following failure to respond to olanzapine
Authors: A Osborne Sarah , C Munro Janet , M Stephenson Caroline , B Chaudhry Imran , W Kerwin Robert 
Published: July 2007

AbstractAlthough clozapine is the gold‐standard treatment for treatment‐resistant schizophrenia, research shows that its use is commonly delayed, as it is often perceived as a ‘last‐ resort’ treatment.In this small naturalistic study,the authors describe how patients failing to respond to olanzapine may show significant clinical improvement when treated with clozapine. Copyright © 2007 Wiley Interface Ltd
Proteomics analysis of serous fluids and effusions: Pleural, pericardial, and peritoneal
Authors: Tyan Yu‐Chang , Liao Pao‐Chi 
Published: July 2007

AbstractSerous body fluids are normally present in small amounts in the cavities lined by serous membranes, and effusions are the term usually used to represent an excess of these fluids. Thus, any changes in the effusions may accurately reflect various pathological processes. In this review, we will introduce the present status of effusion analysis. Proteomics allows the global study of protein expression and offers a comprehensive view to analyze effusion proteins at a system level. It deals with the study of proteins, their structures, localizations, PTM, functions, and interactions with other proteins. This paper reviews the variety of analytical methods that have been used for the analysis of effusions. The proteins expressed in effusions, which have been identified by proteomics methods are discussed.
Mining the low molecular weight proteome of blood
Authors: Drake Richard R. , Cazares Lisa , Semmes O. John 
Published: July 2007

AbstractSerum and plasma are composed of highly complex protein/peptide mixtures resulting from the systemic monitoring of every biological process in a living organism. Some of these sentinel changes are extremely short‐lived while others produce more stable by‐products. In addition, since biological events occur simultaneously and with overlapping physiological demands, separating the desired ones from “background” changes is an exceptional challenge. In this review, we outline a definition of the “low molecular weight proteome” as a valuable subcomponent of the blood proteome. We make a case that this derivative proteome is as information rich and equally complex as the parent proteome. We discuss some of the technical challenges in the analysis of the low molecular weight proteome with an emphasis on MS‐based analytical approaches. With specific example of several reported methodologies we attempt to frame the current state‐of‐the‐art in study design as a guide to future efforts.
Impact of preanalytical variables on the analysis of biological fluids in proteomic studies
Authors: Ferguson Roisean E. , Hochstrasser Denis F. , Banks Rosamonde E. 
Published: July 2007

AbstractAlthough proteomic technologies have been enthusiastically embraced in the field of biomarker discovery and particularly with biological fluids, it is increasingly being recognized that pre‐analytical effects, i.e. those occurring prior to the point of actual sample analysis and including factors such as sample processing and storage, can exert marked influences on the results obtained. Such effects have been recognized already for specific analytes in clinical chemistry, but with the increasing sensitivity and resolution of the newer technologies, such effects are potentially even more marked. The challenge of translating initial findings into clinical application requires such issues to be addressed at a very early stage in study design and this paper reviews the current knowledge of the potential impact of pre‐analytical factors on proteomic studies of biological fluids.