Skip to Main Content
Value for Money
book

Value for Money

by Patricia Pulliam Phillips, Jack J. Phillips, Gina Paone, Cyndi Huff Gaudet, Kyle McLeod
August 2019
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
528 pages
13h 44m
English
Wiley-Scrivener
Content preview from Value for Money

Chapter 15Optimize Results: Use Black Box Thinking to Increase Funding

Many industries have been decimated in the United States as the manufacturing facilities have moved offshore. Manufacturing industries such as tires, textiles, and steel have relocated to India, China, and other countries. The pulp and paper manufacturing sector has experienced this offshoring, and it’s a somewhat perplexing situation. The United States has an ample supply of timber available to facilitate manufacturing of pulp and paper to be used in a variety of different products, construction materials, and consumer products. But the cost of producing paper in US paper mills became so high that it was cheaper for some organizations to cut down the trees, ship the lumber to China and have the pulp processed there. The finished product is then shipped back to the United States directly from China.

The industry pointed to many factors causing this problem, but one critical factor was the talent available to run the paper mills. The organizations needed a large number of capable and skilled plant operators, which was simply not available in these local areas. Recognizing this need, Alabama Southern College joined forces with a group of community colleges to form a National Pulp and Paper Technology Consortium with the objective of training skilled paper operators for these plants. Funding was received from the National Science Foundation to create these programs to supply skilled employees to this industry. ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Start your free trial

You might also like

Maximizing the Value of Consulting

Maximizing the Value of Consulting

Jack J. Phillips, William D. Trotter, Patricia Pulliam Phillips
Design a Better Business

Design a Better Business

Patrick Van Der Pijl, Justin Lokitz, Lisa Kay Solomon, Erik van der Pluijm, Maarten van Lieshout
Value Creation Principles

Value Creation Principles

Bartley J. Madden

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781119322658Purchase book