Sanjay Sharma epub Industrial Consultancy: Operational Focus

This book provides an in-depth analysis of industrial consultancy on a variety of issues and aspects including operations and services. Looks at both individual-level consultancy and consultancy for firms, companies, or institutions. Uses observations, examples and case studies to bring together key themes: consulting approach; production operations vs. services consulting; location and facilities criteria; human-machine interaction; lead time objective; outsourcing decision and management; infrastructure influence along with consultancy objectives, strategic considerations and conflict resolution. Presents a comprehensive understanding of industrial consultancy and services offered to a wide range of industries, across type, size and scale, including manufacturing, pharmaceutical, fabrication, and transformer industries among others. First of its kind, this book will be a useful resource for industry and management professionals as well as scholars and researchers of business management, business economics, operations, entrepreneurship and organizational behavior, and engineering.