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GENERAL
An award winning article by Dr. Burckhard published by THE ECONOMIST
in 1999
MY VIEWS ON SOME COMMON BUSINESS RULES
the title should explain what is to be expected behind the link :
Now here is a text database with some instructions for business simulations
and games. They have been collected from postings to the internet and represent
the thinking and experience of the relevant author. Each subject in the
database is preceded by the string "TITLE" which should help you search
for the different subjects :
SPREADSHEETS supporting ANALYSIS and DECISION MAKING
From my readings I have created the following spreadsheet's which should help you in your decision making processes :
1) I am a strong believer in Dr. Demings teachings about businesses
being a process. From D. Wheelers book "Understanding Variation" (SPC Press
2000) I took the structure and formulas to create a process analysis spreadsheet
which helps seperating special cause variation from common cause variation.
If you are looking for more check out the link to the "quality section"
from my main page.
Any process shows special cause variation if :
- a single observation is outside the process limits or
- 3 out of 4 consecutive observations are situated closer to one process
limit than to the process average or
- 8 consecutive observations are situated on one side of the process
average
2) The following spreadsheet supports decision making based on changes
in throughput (=T), operating expenses (=OE) and capital employed (=I)
and is based on throughput accounting principles.
3) There is a lot of discussion regarding equipment utilization,
OEE and the like. Here is an instruction on how to generate 'utilization'
values as well as an Excel spreadsheet template to support your efforts.
I prefer to use the TEEP value as it eliminates discussions about closing
days and other such nasty topics.
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