Putting soft OR methods to work: The case of the business improvement project at PowerGen

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 118, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-29

  Ormerod, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; PROCESS ENGINEERING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; STRATEGIC PLANNING; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

BUSINESS PROCESS REDESIGN;

OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

EID: 0032628098     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-2217(98)00278-1     Document Type: Article

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