Developing a creative-inventive framework for strategic management and sustainable business excellence

International Journal of Productivity and Quality Management

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-32

  Breja, S K ^a,b   Banwet, D K ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

^b Centre for Construction Development and Research in National Council for Cement and Building Materials   (India)

Author keywords

Advanced manufacturing technologies; AMTs; Business excellence; CPS; Creative problem solving; Flexibility; Strategic focus; Strategic management; Sustainability; Theory of inventive problem solving; Total quality management; Toyota Production System; TPS; TQM; Transformation; TRIZ

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960268244     PISSN: 17466474     EISSN: 17466482     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJPQM.2011.041095     Document Type: Article

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