[Iefac.list] CFP: Special Issue on Lean Enterprise Transformation - Deadline Extended until Aug 1, 2012

[Ozelkan, Ertunga]

Dear Colleagues,

Thank you for your interest and submissions thus far for the
Special Issue on Lean Enterprise Transformation that will appear in the Journal of Enterprise Transformation.
Based on multiple requests we decided to extend the submission deadline until August 1, 2012.

Please see details below and in the attachment, and feel free to contact me for questions.

Best Regards,

Ertunga C. Ozelkan, Ph.D.
Director & Associate Professor, Systems Engineering and Engineering Management
Associate Director, Center for Lean Logistics and Engineered Systems
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Tel: 704-687-4990, Fax: 704-687-3616
http://seem.uncc.edu<http://seem.uncc.edu/>




Call for Papers
Journal of Enterprise Transformation
Special Issue on
Lean Enterprise Transformation

Journal of Enterprise Transformation, a new quarterly journal from Taylor & Francis, is inviting papers for its special issue (Volume 3, Issue 2) on Lean Enterprise Transformation.

Lean thinking is the process of satisfying customer needs for a good or a service profitably with the least resources possible. Simply put lean is “doing more with less”. To accomplish its mission lean systems utilize a number of strategies including demand pull, just-in-time production, load leveling, smaller lot sizes, employee empowerment, standard work, visual process flow, elimination of non-value-adding activities, and continuous improvement. While started in the automotive sector, with the ongoing global pressure of cost cutting and quality focus, lean system design concepts have become widely popular, propagating into every industry sector, including services. As the applications increased over the past two decades lean systems research has been maturing incorporating innovative strategies, modeling tools and techniques. Hence, the purpose of this special issue is to explore the role of lean on enterprise transformation and tools/techniques that enable their effectiveness. It will share cutting edge researches and success stories with the academics and professionals working in the field of lean systems with a balanced exposition of lean theory and practice, and provide scientific validation of previous research in alternate industry domains and on new situations and circumstances.

Suggested topics of interest might include (but are not limited to):

  *   Simulation of enterprise processes to assess the effectiveness of different lean strategies
  *   Application of decision tools and techniques for assessing, analyzing and managing risk in lean enterprises
  *   Development of models to optimize lean enterprise operations
  *   Application of statistical modeling techniques for monitoring and controlling lean enterprise quality
  *   Identification of metrics to improve performance of lean enterprise
  *   Innovations on how and when lean and related strategies such as Six Sigma and green/sustainable enterprise design can be used together to achieve superior systems performance
  *   Comparison of lean enterprise strategies versus other strategies using modeling and empirical analysis
  *   Lean enterprise best practices through innovative analysis of industrial applications of lean
Submission Instructions:
All complete papers will be subject to a thorough peer review process. To be considered for this special issue, submit papers no longer than 30 double-spaced pages. The timeline is as follows:

  *   Full paper submission deadline: 1 August 2012
  *   Publication decisions: 1 October 2012
  *   Revised paper deadline: 1 December 2012
Please submit papers via http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ujet and direct any questions or preliminary ideas for papers to the special issue editors:


  *   Ertunga C. Ozelkan, Systems Engineering & Engineering Management, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, E-mail: ertunga.ozelkan at uncc.edu
  *   Ahad Ali, Mechanical Engineering, Lawrence Technological University, E-mail: aali at ltu.edu
  *   MD Sarder, Industrial Engineering & Technology, University of Southern Mississippi, E-mail: md.sarder at usm.edu
(Please see the attached pdf file for the full call for papers and more detailed instructions for authors.)

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