Post-financial meltdown: What do the services industries need from us now?

Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 509-521

  Hoerl, Roger W ^a   Snee, Ronald D ^b  

^a GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b Snee Associates LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Financial meltdown; Lean six sigma; Services; Statistical engineering; Statistical thinking; Transactions

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS PROCESS; GLOBAL ECONOMIES; LEAN SIX SIGMA; SERVICE INDUSTRIES; SERVICE SECTORS; STATISTICAL ENGINEERING; STATISTICAL THINKING; WALL STREETS;

FINANCE; ROADS AND STREETS; WORK SIMPLIFICATION;

STATISTICS;

EID: 70450159095     PISSN: 15241904     EISSN: 15264025     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asmb.805     Document Type: Article

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