Format:
1 online resource (447 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780195080520
,
9780198024231
Content:
Describing the ways that firms can develop successful products and processes, this book examines a number of examples of successes - and failures - and derives useful lessons for managers. It derives from a major study combining five US companies and four universities
Note:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: The Manufacturing Vision Group -- Appendix: Project Summaries -- 1. The Manufacturer's Perpetual Enterprise Machine -- 2. Core Capabilities and Core Rigidities -- 3. Guiding Visions -- 4. Pushing the Performance Envelope -- 5. Project Leadership and Organization -- 6. Ownership and Commitment -- 7. Prototyping: Rapid Learning and Early Testing -- 8. Integration Within Projects -- 9. An Opportunity for Leadership in Learning -- 10. Chaparral Steel Company -- 11. Digital Equipment Corporation -- 12. Eastman Kodak Company -- 13. Ford Motor Company -- 14. Hewlett-Packard Company -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- W.
Additional Edition:
Print version Bowen, H. Kent The Perpetual Enterprise Machine Cary : Oxford University Press, Incorporated,c1994 ISBN 9780195080520
Language:
English
Keywords:
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