Flexible manufacturing systems: a review of analytical models
Management Science
Harvard Business Review
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Management Science
Optimal investment in product-flexible manufacturing capacity
Management Science
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Management Science
The flexibility of production processes: a general framework
Management Science
Principles on the benefits of manufacturing process flexibility
Management Science
Scheduling parallel manufacturing cells with resource flexibility
Management Science
Self-buffering, self-balancing, self-flushing production lines
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Investment Strategies for Flexible Resources
Management Science
The intangible benefits and costs of investments: evidence from financial markets
ICIS '97 Proceedings of the eighteenth international conference on Information systems
Journal of Management Information Systems
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Operations Research
Computers and Industrial Engineering
SYFSA: A framework for Systematic Yet Flexible Systems Analysis
Journal of Biomedical Informatics
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Flexibility is an effective means by which an e-business can hedge against uncertainty in a swiftly changing environment. Systems, applications, and business processes--in short, the entire environment supporting e-business--must seamlessly adapt to changes without costly and time-consuming infrastructure overhauls. Decision makers therefore have a growing need for knowledge about e-business flexibility. However, flexibility remains largely an abstraction in the e-business domain, with the term often meaning different things to different people. Whereas very little systematic research has been directed towards the study of flexibility issues associated with e-business, a rich and burgeoning literature on manufacturing flexibility has accumulated over the past 25 years. In this paper we review the existing literature on manufacturing flexibility, and extract from it guiding principles for creating and managing e-business flexibility.