The Right Tools for the Job: On the Use and Performance of Management Tools and Techniques

This book is the result of a four-year study into the most commonly used management tools and techniques in the areas of business strategy and finance, marketing, production and operations, and procurement and supply chain management. It explains which tools are used in small, medium-sized and large companies, whether based in the US, Europe or Asia, across many different industrial and service sectors. It explains where companies find out about particular tools, and examines which appear to be the most successful.

ANDREW COX is Chairman of Robertson Cox Ltd. and CIPS sponsored Professor and Director of the Centre for Business Strategy and Procurement (CBSP) in the Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham, UK. He has written many books on procurement and supply chain management.

CHRIS LONSDALE is Lecturer in Supply Chain Management in the CBSP, UK.

JOE SANDERSON is Lecturer in Supply Chain Management and Deputy Director of the CBSP, UK.

GLYN WATSON is Lecturer in Supply Chain Management in the CBSP, UK.

Together they have co-authored of a number of books on the subject.