International Manufacturing Strategy Survey and Made in Europe
Examining manufacturing strategy
What is the International Manufacturing Strategy Survey (IMSS)?
Every four years London Business School teams up with major institutions around the world to conduct a comprehensive study of manufacturing.
As a non-profit making network, IMSS plays a major role in helping companies to:
- understand and identify manufacturing management policies and practices that best achieve the strategic objectives of the companies
- perform comparative analyses of manufacturing strategies in the assembly industry at national and international levels
- establish criteria for the introduction of best practices as well as their level of transferability and adaptability to different environments
- perform their own comparative analyses, using their sectorial, national and international benchmarks
- encourage communication between participating companies and schools on aspects of manufacturing management that directly affect them.
Award winning paper
Arcs of integration: an international study of supply chain strategies (download PDF 313KB), by Mark Frohlich and Roy Westbrook, was based on results collected from IMSS global surveys.
Made in Europe
The Centre for Operations and Technology Management produced a series of reports on the maturity of implementation of best practice in the design and the manufacturing processes of European companies.
The reports:
- Made in Europe 3 (1998) (PDF document, 11mb)
- Made in Europe 2 (1996) (PDF document, 7mb)
- Made in Europe (1994) (PDF document, 4mb)
The Made in Europe research work made wide use of the Promoting Business Excellence (PROBE) benchmarking service.
