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TI cycles: new product strategy (A)
(2003-10-20)
There are a few points about the context of TI Cycles that need to be
recognized explicitly. The company is operating in a mature industry
where competition is very high. Product innovations are few and
incremental. A ...
Ahmedabad regional passport office: rapid response time by process redesign
(2003-10-21)
If all your documents are in order, you should get your fresh passport in five weeks. If you
already hold a passport, then your passport should be re-issued in one week. In case of
damaged or lost passports (except in ...
Measurement issues in comparing fiscal performance of states
(2003-10-20)
Interstate comparison of fiscal performance requires the use of appropriate concepts and proper
measurement of state income, fiscal deficit and debt. GSDP at market prices and a comprehensive
concept of debt consistent ...
Estimates of state income originating in entertainment sub-sector in Gujarat
(2003-10-22)
[The paper provides detailed estimates of the Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP)
at current market prices (m.p.) for Gujarat state for the period 1990-91 to 2000-01.
It considers the estimates of GSDP at current factor ...
Economic and policy issues in the livestock service delivery to the poor
(2004-10-21)
Livestock are important to millions of poor households across the world not only as a
source of income but also as a major source of protein and supplementary nutrition, draft power,
fertilizer, fuel and a store of wealth. ...
Binary knapsack problems with random budgets
(2003-10-21)
The binary knapsack problem is a combinatorial optimization problem in which a subset of a given set of elements
needs to be chosen in order to maximize profit, given a budget constraint. In this paper, we study a stochastic ...
Indian food specialities limited
(2002-10-21)
Indian Food Specialties Limited (IFS) introduced
tools of food quality management in May 2000
in response to changing market conditions and
poor profitability. Spoilage in the production
process was very high and the ...
The pervasiveness of self-employment
(2003-10-21)
Ageing populations with increased life expectancy, low morality rates, and decreasing and colatile returns in financial markets have made old age financial security difficult. Further, escalating costs of the pension system ...
BHP limited: risk management strategy
(2002-10-21)
BHP Limited, a global natural resource
company based in Australia, has traditionally
hedged its market price risks with
derivatives. Based on the analysis of a
'Cash Flow at Risk' model, which exploits
the diversification ...
A multilevel search algorithm for the maximization of submodular functions applied to the quadratic cost partition problem
(2005-10-27)
Maximization of submodular functions on a ground set is a NP-hard combinatorial
optimization problem. Data correcting algorithms are among the several algorithms suggested
for solving this problem exactly and approximately. ...