KM & Other Information-Intensive Management Areas

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Recommended Literature:

• Just-in-time manufacturing
  R.Balakrishnan, "The Toyota Production System: A Case Study of Creativity and Innovation in Automotive Engineering."
  Available at:
  http://www.dig.bris.ac.uk/teaching/
• Out-sourcing
  Michelle Delio, "Strategic Outsourcing," Knowledge Management Magazine (July 1999). Available at:
  http://www.destinationkm.com/articles/
• B. A. Aubert, et al., "Managing the Risk of IT Outsourcing," CIRANO Working Paper, July 1998.
  Available at:
  http://www.cirano.qc.ca/pdf/publication/98s-18.pdf
• Modular manufacturing
  Volkswagen press release (13 Feb 2002).
  Available at:
  http://www.volkswagen-ir.de/download/
• Flexible manufacturing
  (Pirelli) "Reinventing the Wheel," The Economist, April 22, 2000, pp. 57-58.
  Available at:
  http://jpope.utoledo.edu/webpage/Pirelli.html