Total cost management — (TCM) is the name given by AACE International to a process for applying the skills and knowledge of cost engineering. It is also the first integrated process or methodology for portfolio, program and project management. AACE first introduced the… … Wikipedia
Total cost of ownership — (TCO) is a financial estimate whose purpose is to help consumers and enterprise managers determine direct and indirect costs of a product or system. It is a management accounting concept that can be used in full cost accounting or even ecological … Wikipedia
Total Cost of Ownership — (TCO, Gesamtbetriebskosten) ist ein Abrechnungsverfahren, das Verbrauchern und Unternehmen helfen soll, alle anfallenden Kosten von Investitionsgütern (wie beispielsweise Software und Hardware in der IT) abzuschätzen. Die Idee dabei ist, eine… … Deutsch Wikipedia
Total Cost — of Ownership (TCO) ist ein Abrechnungsverfahren, das 1987 durch Bill Kirwin, Research Director der Unternehmensberatung Gartner Inc., im Auftrag von Microsoft entwickelt wurde. Der Ansatz dient dazu, Verbrauchern und Unternehmen dabei zu helfen,… … Deutsch Wikipedia
Total Airport Management Systems — The Total Airport Management System (TAMS) is an integrated airport management system which is now being used in Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA).The system interfaces and integrates the majority of electronic information within the… … Wikipedia
Cost engineering — is an area of engineering practice concerned with the application of scientific principles and techniques to problems of cost estimating, cost control, business planning and management science, profitability analysis, project management, and… … Wikipedia
Cost-plus pricing — is a pricing method used by companies to maximize their profits. The firms accomplish their objective of profit maximization by increasing their production until marginal revenue equals marginal cost, and then charging a price which is determined … Wikipedia
Cost of conflict — is a tool which attempts to calculate the price of conflict to the human race. The idea is to examine this cost, not only in terms of the deaths and casualties and the economic costs borne by the people involved, but also the social,… … Wikipedia
Management — in all business and organizational activities is the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals and objectives using available resources efficiently and effectively. Management comprises planning, organizing, staffing, leading or… … Wikipedia
Total productive maintenance — is a new way of looking at maintenance, or conversely, a reversion to old ways but on a mass scale. In TPM the machine operator performs much, and sometimes all, of the routine maintenance tasks themselves. This automaintenance ensures… … Wikipedia
Cost of poor quality — (COPQ) or poor quality costs (PQC), are defined as costs that would disappear if systems, processes, and products were perfect. COPQ was popularized by IBM quality expert H. James Harrington in his 1987 book Poor Quality Costs.[1] COPQ is a… … Wikipedia
