Operational excellence managers

How Do Major Oil/Gas/Petrochemical Companies Describe the Basis for Their Operational Excellence Management Systems ... 

Company B describes their operational excellence management system with ... 

There are many references that influence the structure and organization of commonly applied management system frameworks today. Depending on the industry segment and locale(s) an organization chooses to operate in, the development of an organization s own respective operational excellence management system (OEMS) may be influenced by one or more of them. Some of these will include ... 

It is well known in the world of independent ventures that there often comes a point at which the founding team needs to be replaced by managers with different qualities. Indeed, one of the ways in which venture capitalists claim they add value is in provoking these transitions and helping locate relevant managerial talent. The same applies to many key people working within a corporate venture those with the right skills to function well when the task is discovery and creation are not necessarily able to make the transition to the tasks of enhancement and operational excellence. Moore (1991) terms this transition the transition from pioneers to settlers. As he describes (1991, p. 199) ... 

Since Excel is a powerful tool used widely for many different purposes with many options not all options can be discussed in this chapter. The focus of the chapter is on manually self-created spreadsheets for data calculation and checks against acceptance criteria (logical operations). Excel spreadsheets that are used with other electronic systems for automatic data or information entry, for further operations, or used as a view tool for databases are not within the scope of this chapter. Nevertheless, these types of spreadsheets are viewed as a normal spreadsheet with automatic entry, and validation, including validation of the interface, will be included to cover this item. In this chapter we provide guidance in validation and revalidation of Excel spreadsheets and information about managing validated spreadsheets. 

Descriptions of accidents, incidents, and process related events at this and/or other units having similar hazards should be kept on file. This information provides an excellent training tool for both operations and management employees. 

Christoph Schmitz is a consultant in McKinsey s Frankfurt office. He is a member of the global energy and materials practice and has worked in various fields of the process sector with a particular focus on the chemical and pharmaceutical industries. His main areas of emphasis are supply chain management, total operational excellence, and sourcing. He holds a Dipl.-Chem. and a PhD in chemistry from the University of Bayreuth. 

The acquisition of significant knowledge about drugs and drug therapy is the expectation of a newly licensed pharmacist, but it is the demonstration of excellent management and human resources skills that is often necessary for a pharmacist to become recognized and evaluated for promotion. Important aspects in the operation of a chain community pharmacy that are reviewed during an associate evaluation are... 

Nevertheless, top managers often tend to give operational excellence a low priority. This has led to a situation where the average level of performance improvement over the last 15 years has been, on average, only sufficient to compensate for the industry s price/cost squeeze. 

While there are many factors supporting the business case for sustainability at 3M, the main drivers for sustainability are operational excellence, organic growth, and risk management. Each of them is linked to corporate business initiatives. 

Rapport with Divisional Management. The chemical Marketing Research Department will have to have excellent rapport with the operating divisional management personnel. This is important to understand properly the problems and activities of the operating division. Proper rap-... 

All enterprises should pay more attention to cultivate an excellent management team for safety education and training, and take great effort to train technicians and managers. The operator who have special work must be special trained before going to work, mine workers must have junior or higher educational level. Workers must be certificated strictly. We should improve the overall quality of coal miners, and meanwhile, we also must train safety inspectors regularly to improve the quality of coal mine safety inspectors. 

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