Service Productivity Management

Improving Service Performance using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA)

H. David Sherman, Joe Zhu (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

328 Seiten

2014
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
978-1-4614-9805-6 (ISBN)

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Service Productivity Management is an in-depth guide to using the most powerful available benchmarking technique to improve service organization performance - Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). (1) It outlines the use of DEA as a benchmarking technique. (2) It identifies high costs service units. (3) It isolates specific changes to each service unit to elevate their performance to the best practice services level providing high quality service at low cost. (4) And most important, it guides the improvement process. The discussion and methods are all supported by case-study applications to organizations that have sought and have successfully improved its performance. The techniques discussed in the book are accessible to any and all managers with access to Microsoft® Excel spreadsheet software (Excel).

Management of Service Organization Productivity.- Data Envelopment Analysis Explained.- DEA Concepts for Managers.- Solving DEA Using DEAFrontier Software.- DEA Model - Extensions.- Managing Bank Productivity.- Quality-Adjusted DEA (Q-DEA).- Applying DEA to Health Care Organizations.- Government Productivity Management.- Multidimensional Quality-of-Life Measure.- Hedge Fund Performance Evaluation.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	20.11.2014
Zusatzinfo	XXII, 328 p.
Verlagsort	New York, NY
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Technik ► Maschinenbau
	Wirtschaft ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Ökonometrie
ISBN-10	1-4614-9805-8 / 1461498058
ISBN-13	978-1-4614-9805-6 / 9781461498056
Zustand	Neuware