This report examines several ways to ensure the safety and reliability of the nuclear stockpile, including options that are simpler, less costly, and more certain than the United States Department of Energy approach, and which had better match the United States' commitments to end the arms race and eliminate nuclear...
The construction site of the busway station for the South Eastern Transit project was constrained by a shopping centre on one boundary, a major operational freeway on another and an extremely limited area in which to stockpile structural components. A fast and cost-effective building method using ARC-Fabrication was essential for...
Lowering inventories is one of the quickest ways to decrease working capital needs. Performance measurements, such as the old standby ROA return on assets and the newer EVA economic value added, as well as other measures that gauge how efficiently capital is used, have become more common organizational drivers. In...
As we wrote on the BNET Intercom last week, sometimes it's important to stay true to your company's strategic core. But sometimes, with technology and globalization changing the business environment at whiplash inducing speeds, fundamental redefinition is a necessity rather than a distraction. In a post on the Harvard Business...
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Inventories of unsold new vehicles in China rose to a four-year high at the end of June, as sales growth slowed unexpectedly while auto makers boost output, the official China Securities Journal said on Tuesday. The backlog came to 170,000...
