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  2. Scientific management - Wikipedia

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    Leading high-tech companies use the concept of nudge management to increase productivity of employees. More and more business leaders start to make use of this new scientific management. [49] Today's militaries employ all of the major goals and tactics of scientific management, if not under that name. Of the key points, all but wage incentives ...

  3. Management science - Wikipedia

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    The management scientist's mandate is to use rational, systematic and science-based techniques to inform and improve decisions of all kinds. The techniques of management science are not restricted to business applications but may be applied to military , medical, public administration , charitable groups, political groups or community groups.

  4. Operations research - Wikipedia

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    The management scientist's mandate is to use rational, systematic, science-based techniques to inform and improve decisions of all kinds. Of course, the techniques of management science are not restricted to business applications but may be applied to military, medical, public administration, charitable groups, political groups or community groups.

  5. Time and motion study - Wikipedia

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    Original Films of Frank B. Gilbreth (Part I) A time and motion study (or time–motion study) is a business efficiency technique combining the time study work of Frederick Winslow Taylor with the motion study work of Frank and Lillian Gilbreth (the same couple as is best known through the biographical 1950 film and book Cheaper by the Dozen).

  6. The Principles of Scientific Management - Wikipedia

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    The defective systems of management which are in common use, and which make it necessary for each workman to soldier, or work slowly, in order that he may protect his own best interests. Third. The inefficient rule-of-thumb methods, which are still almost universal in all trades, and in practicing which our workmen waste a large part of their ...

  7. Lean manufacturing - Wikipedia

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    Shigeo Shingo cites reading Principles of Scientific Management in 1931 and being "greatly impressed to make the study and practice of scientific management his life's work". [14] [need quotation to verify], [15] [page needed] Shingo and Taiichi Ohno were key to the design of Toyota's manufacturing process.

  8. Operations management - Wikipedia

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    Operations management is concerned with designing and controlling the production of goods and services, [1] ensuring that businesses are efficient in using resources to meet customer requirements. It is concerned with managing an entire production system that converts inputs (in the forms of raw materials , labor , consumers , and energy ) into ...

  9. List of companies by research and development spending

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    Company Country Sector Expenditures on R&D (billions of US$) 1 Amazon United States: Software and Internet 73.21 2 Alphabet Inc. United States: Software and Internet 39.50 3 Meta Platforms, Inc. United States: Software and Internet 35.34 4 Apple United States: Computing and Electronics 27.65 5 Microsoft United States: Software and Internet 26.63 6