Biomedical subjects

S W Klunk

Publications and source records attributed to S W Klunk.

3 recordsLinked to original sources

PubMed2000

Building strategic alliances: a case study.

It takes much coordination, communication, patience, and persistence to build and manage supplier partnerships in order to lower total costs, reduce lead times, improve the quality of products, optimize inventories, and streamline administrative process. In the absence of the latest technology, it takes talented and enthusiastic team members who take pride in their work, who can think progressively, who can generate optimism in any situation, and who can maintain grace under pressure in order to be successful.

Contract Services↗

PubMed1997

Conflict and the dynamic organization.

Competition in today's world is fierce. Organizations are restructuring, re-engineering, acquiring, merging, tightening their belts, downsizing, transforming their cultures, and raising their expectations. Those organizations that refuse to change or change too slowly will not survive. Thus, both organizations and employees need to be well prepared to handle the stress and conflict that accompany the change process. One necessary step in becoming prepared is to identify the sources and types of conflict likely to occur.

Communication↗

PubMed1996

Accelerating the culture change!

Exide Electronics, a major supplier of uninterruptible power system equipment, embarked on a journey of changing a culture to improve quality, enhance customer responsiveness, and reduce costs. This case study examines the evolution of change over a period of seven years, with particular emphasis on the most recent years, 1992 through 1995. The article focuses on the Raleigh plant operations and describes how each succeeding year built on the successes and fixed the shortcomings of the prior years to accelerate the culture change, including corrective action and continuous improvement processes, organizational structures, expectations, goals, achievements, and pitfalls. The real challenge to changing the culture was structuring a dynamic approach to accelerate change! The presentation also examines how the evolutionary process itself can be created and accelerated through ongoing communication, regular feedback of progress and goals, constant evaluation and direction of the process, and measuring and paying for performance.

Communication↗