Jeff Trailer

• California State University, Chico

Enloe Medical Center is a non-profit community hospital in Chico, California. Among the many services they provide is a Labor and Delivery Department. While mothers are routinely admitted from 1:00pm to 1:00am, they are generally discharged between 10:00am and 5:00pm. This results in a generic bell curve behavior pattern for patient occupancy durin...

The growth of firms is fundamentally based on selfreinforcing feedback loops, one of the most important of which involves cash flow.When profit margin is positive, sales generate cash, which may then be reinvested to finance the operating cash cycle.We analyze simulations of a sustainable growth model of a generic new venture to assess the importan...

The successful strategic management of projects is based on an organization’s understanding that an effective project is only as good as its capacity to satisfy customer requirements. In an increasingly competitive international marketplace, successful firms are typically those that have worked to establish a cooperative relationship with their cli...

Effective business plans do not live by their topics alone: how well the analysis of those topics persuades is at least as important. Analytical writing draws conclusions by investigating and synthesizing facts and conjectures. Synthesizing facts and conjectures into sound arguments requires deductive logic. Thus, deductive logic provides a set of...

This provocative book combines theory and practice and is the first of its kind to develop a complete model of the project leader function in modern corporations. It addresses such diverse, but equally important, roles of project leader as visionary, strategic manager and ethical leader. It is a hands-on guide detailing the specific steps you will...

Chosen from the best of Project Management Journal ® and PM Network®, the articles reprinted in this volume revolve around the nature of the project management challenge, the skills required of effective project management practitioners, and some of the important leadership and management principles. Taken together, they offer a comprehensive and t...

Accurate performance measurement is critical to understanding new venture and small business success and failure. The first phase of this study surveys the entrepreneurship literature from 1987–1993 and evaluates the dimensions and measures of performance used. Little consistency in performance measurement across studies was found; rather, a wide d...

In 1979, L'Garde, Inc. completed the development of several geothermal elastomer compounds. Major advances in the state of the art were achieved with successes at extreme conditions such as temperatures up to and exeeeding 320°C (608°F), pressures up to and exceeding 138 MPa (20,000 psi), and fluids ranging from brines to hydrocarbons. Because va...