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Felicity Canning is divisional operational manager at Homerton hospital, the hospital for athletes and Olympic officials. She explains what her role involves on a day-to-day basis
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If a company was laid out on a chart like parts of the human body, the supply chain would be the spine and central nervous system. Everything operating further from the center would depend on …

What is Six Sigma?
It’s hard to believe but the actual root of Six Sigma quality management is the bell curve, or normal curve, developed by Carl Gauss circa 1800. This curve of graphical points shows …

The Operations Management MBA
Many people believe they can be more effective and more comfortable in management if they get a Masters Business Administration (MBA). Having completed a bachelor’s degree in one of many possible business …

Tools for project management projects
Formal training and software packages are the two major tools used for managing projects throughout industry. Here we discuss a few solutions designed to help project managers, but there are many …

What are logistics?
Every company, no matter how large or small, has to get material into its plant for processing and products out for distribution. The means by which these things happen is logistics. Proper and …