Industrial DynamicsManagement and management science; The managerial viewpoint; Industrial dynamics; An industrial system; The managerial use of industrial dynamics; Dynamic models of industrial and economic activity; Models; Principles for formulating dynamic system models; Structure of a dynamic system model; System of equations; Symbols for flow diagrams; Representing delays; Policies and decisions; Agregation of variables; Exogenous variables; Judging model validity; Examples of dynamic system models; Model of the production - distribution system of chapter 2; Advertising in the system model of chapter 2; A customer - producer - employment case study; Dynamic characterizatics of a customer-producer-employment system; Future of industrial dynamics; Broader applications of dynamic models; Industrial dynamics and management education; Industrial dynamics in business. |
Contents
PART I | 11 |
AN INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM | 21 |
THE MANAGERIAL USE OF INDUSTRIAL DYNAMICS | 43 |
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actual system advertising amplification amplitude average sales backlog BLTF cash changes Chapter 15 characteristics CINF component constant CPLF curve customer order decision functions delivery delay descriptive knowledge dimensionless discussed distributor disturbance dollars/week DQDF dynamic model economic effect employment equa equipment exponential delay exponential smoothing Factory units Factory units/week Factory warehouse Factory weeks Figure filled from inventory flow rates fluctuation forecast fraction frequency FRFPC incoming orders industrial dynamics initial value interactions Inventory at Factory labor manufacturing orders mathematical model ment noise nomic nonlinear normal orders at Factory orders filled output parameters peak period pipeline policies production rate purchase random rate equations real system relationships represent retail sales SABC sales rate Section sector servomechanisms sinusoidal SMOF smoothing solution interval specific steady-state step input structure system behavior system dynamics tion tory unfilled orders variables