NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR
MANUFACTURING MANAGEMENT
Measuring performance
Library
Business Process Management - Roger Maull,
Presentation on
Business Process Management (PDF, 26 pages), from
July 2004 visit.
A later presentation on Business Process
Management (Powerpoint SHow, 33 slides), from December 2005 visit.
Growth strategies for small business and their consequences
A Powerpoint Show from our August 2003 Visiting Fellow, David Cray, from Ottawa, Canada.
Success factors in small business
Material from our March 2002 visiting Fellow, Vinod Kumar from Canada.
Success factors in small business: a study of 11 small manufacturers in Ontario. What does it take for a small manufacturer to be successful? In two formats: A Powerpoint Show a full paper and two videos in Windows Media Format Success Factors in Value-Added Businesses (31 minutes) and Best Management Practices for SMEs (43 minutes).
Enterprise Resource Planning for Small Business (Powerpoint Show)
Management Performance in Manufacturing Business
A report by Dr Zeljka Sporer, commissioned by Smartlink from the Centre for Applied Economics at the University South Australia. This report is based on a survey of manufacturing businesses, in the automotive sector, and is the first in a planned series. The study assessed the performance of managers in five major business areas.
Study of training needs
A report by Dr Manjit Monga, entitled Management Capabilities and Training Needs in Australia's Small-to-medium Size Manufacturing Enterprises: an Analysis of Existing Reports and Studies. It's available in both HTML format (for easier reading online) and as an Acrobat PDF file (for printing - 66 pages). A summary is also available.
Bound copies are available for sale, for $A25.00 each - please email Chris Pryor for details or complete and send our Order Form.
Umit Bititci on performance measurement
A paper from Dr Bititci's visit in October 2002: Managing with Measures. (12-page PDF file)
Two Powerpoint presentations from Dr Umit Bititci, our speaker for April 2001: one on The New Business and the other on Competing through value, measurement and strategy.
Alternatively, you can watch these presentations on
Real Video - each lasts approximately an hour.
The New Business (Video)
Competing through value, measurement, and
strategy (Video)
Also two short papers on similar topics - coming soon.
David Cray on new management techniques
Organizational Structures in Small and Medium-sized Firms
(a Powerpoint Show) and a
video of a seminar on the same topic (Windows
Media Player format, 74 minutes). Also another Powerpoint Show on
Managing Complex Structures.