• DocumentCode
    1558589
  • Title

    I must, I must...some New Year´s resolutions

  • Author

    Clapham, Paul

  • Volume
    11
  • Issue
    6
  • fYear
    2001
  • Firstpage
    237
  • Lastpage
    240
  • Abstract
    Professional engineers focus on technical excellence. Achieving improved performance here can be a challenge, to put it mildly: enhancements that are measured in nanoseconds or millimicrons are not the stuff of New Year´s resolutions, they´re fundamental to the engineering mindset. The ideas given here are more akin to refusing second helpings or running upstairs instead of taking the lift-the small things that make a big difference! If everybody in an organisation changes one small detail of how they work, it can make a massive difference to a business. What´s more, they won´t need moral support groups to achieve it. It´s more a matter of developing a new and better habit. The author suggests ten New Year´s resolutions for businesses covering such areas as sales, communication, production, specification, and administration and shows how they can lead to reduced costs.
  • Keywords
    management; New Year´s resolutions; administration; communication; production; reduced costs; sales; specification;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Engineering Management Journal
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0960-7919
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/em:20010601
  • Filename
    975666