Production setup of a successful home builder.

Organizational changes and implementation of one-year profit plan.

Discusses the reorganization of Texas Instruments Metals & Controls Division, the formulation of the profit plan, and the courses of action available to the manager in the face of his department's failure to meet forecasted sales and profits.

Organizational changes and implementation of one-year profit plan.

A method to arrange priorities ranks objectives from the broad to the specific. Good objectives are consistent with the overall design of the enterprise and are realistic in terms of internal and external constraints. Consideration of the creative conception of a range of alternatives and the realistic effectiveness and cost of each is important in setting meaningful objectives. A clarification of objectives results in better planning, a better c...

Discusses the development and operations of a small manufacturing and mail order company doing $3 million sales. L.L. Bean operates in violation of most reasonable business principles, but it is profitable and growing.

The management and trustees of nonprofit service organizations satisfy supporters' demands for better expenditure controls of their contributions by means of cost accounting procedures. The cost accounting of professional services pinpoints sources and uses of funds and facilitates decisions on money allocation. In the described example, management and trustees observe the establishment of a planning and accounting system at a once-drifting menta...

A unit manager on a field computer installation job is faced with recurring conflict between a programmer and his immediate supervisor.

The student is required to develop a strategy for a tennis club of a large resort area. The tennis director must decide how many courts he needs to build within the next three years, what surface they should have, and how much he should charge for their use. Illustrates the problems of capacity planning in a service organization.

Provides an analysis of capital investment (new plant and equipment), production, and operations management.