Service Management, Student Workbook: An Integrated Approach to Supply Chain Management and Operations - Softcover

Cengiz, Haksever; Barry, Render

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0133088855 ISBN 13: 9780133088854

Verlag: Financial Times Prentice Hall, 2013

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With this hands-on study guide to accompany the reference on integrating the many disciplines that comprise service operations management, authors Haksever and Render help students master all aspects of the field. Fully aligned with Service Management, this workbook-style book includes chapter learning objectives, chapter summaries, chapter questions, reviews of key terms and concepts, additional cases and examples, discussion questions, and more.

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Cengiz Haksever is a Professor of Management Sciences at the College of Business Administration of Rider University. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Industrial Engineering from Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey, his M.B.A. from Texas A & M University in College Station, Texas, and his Ph.D. in Operations Research from the University of Texas in Austin.

His research interests include service management, supply chain management, operations research, operations management, quality and continuous improvement, and data envelopment analysis. Dr. Haksever’s work appeared in European Journal of Operational Research, Journal of the Operational Research Society, Computers & Operations Research, Computers & Industrial Engineering, Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, International Journal of Production Economics, Journal of Small Business Strategy, Journal of Business Ethics, Education Economics, International Journal of Production Economics, International Journal of Information and Management Sciences, and Business Horizons.

He has taught courses in operations management, supply chain management, service operations management, management science, quality assurance, statistics, and regression in undergraduate and M.B.A. programs. He served as examiner and senior examiner for the New Jersey Governor’s Award for Performance Excellence. During the 1993-1994 academic year, he was a Fulbright Senior Lecturer at Marmara University in Istanbul, Turkey. At Rider University, he was awarded the Jessie H. Harper Professorship for the academic year of 2000-2001. Dr. Haksever served on the Editorial Advisory Board of Computers & Operations Research and was a guest editor of a special issue of the journal Data Envelopment Analysis.

Barry Render is Professor Emeritus, the Charles Harwood Professor of Operations Management, Crummer Graduate School of Business, Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida. He received his B.S. in Mathematics and Physics at Roosevelt University and his M.S. in Operations Research and Ph.D. in Quantitative Analysis at the University of Cincinnati. He previously taught at George Washington University, University of New Orleans, Boston University, and George Mason University, where he held the Mason Foundation Professorship in Decision Sciences and was Chair of the Decision Sciences Department. Dr. Render has also worked in the aerospace industry for General Electric, McDonnell Douglas, and NASA.

Professor Render has coauthored 10 textbooks for Prentice Hall, including Managerial Decision Modeling with Spreadsheets, Quantitative Analysis for Management, Service Management, Introduction to Management Science, and Cases and Readings in Management Science. Quantitative Analysis for Management, now in its eleventh edition, is a leading text in that discipline in the United States and globally. Dr. Render’s more than 100 articles on a variety of management topics have appeared in Decision Sciences, Production and Operations Management, Interfaces, Information and Management, Journal of Management Information Systems, Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, IIE Solutions, and Operations Management Review, among others.

Dr. Render has been honored as an AACSB Fellow and was twice named a Senior Fulbright Scholar. He was Vice President of the Decision Science Institute Southeast Region and served as Software Review Editor for Decision Line for six years and as Editor of The New York Times Operations Management special issues for five years. From 1984 to 1993, Dr. Render was President of Management Service Associates of Virginia, Inc., whose technology clients included the FBI, the U.S. Navy, Fairfax County, Virginia, and C&P Telephone. He is currently Consulting Editor to Financial Times Press.

Dr. Render has taught operations management courses in Rollins College’s M.B.A. and Executive M.B.A. programs. He has received that school’s Welsh Award as leading professor and was selected by Roosevelt University as the 1996 recipient of the St. Claire Drake Award for Outstanding Scholarship. In 2005, Dr. Render received the Rollins College M.B.A. Student Award for Best Overall Course and in 2009 was named Professor of the Year by full-time M.B.A. students.

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The Hands-On Study Guide for Service Management

Master Strategies and Techniques for Increasing Customer Value in Service Operations

• Comprehensive resources for study, practice, and exploration
• Problems offer hands-on practice in capturing and analyzing data
• Discussion questions deepen your insight into service operations management

Fully integrated with Service Management, this hands-on workbook brings together extensive practice, study, and discussion opportunities to help students master today s most important service operations strategies and techniques.

Authored by leading experts Cengiz Haksever and Barry Render, it addresses a full range of issues associated with understanding, planning, designing, implementing, operating, optimizing, and measuring services.

This student workbook brings together chapter summaries, discussion questions, and problems for quantitative chapters. From analyzing data to understanding core concepts, it can help you become a far more effective service operations professional.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Financial Times Prentice Hall
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0133088855
• ISBN 13: 9780133088854
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 134
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar