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... competitors . Too much is changing for anyone to be complacent . Moreover , the " champ to chump " cycles are growing ever shorter - a " commanding " advantage , such as Digital Equipment's current edge in networks that allow vast ...
... competitors . Too much is changing for anyone to be complacent . Moreover , the " champ to chump " cycles are growing ever shorter - a " commanding " advantage , such as Digital Equipment's current edge in networks that allow vast ...
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... competitors will be , or where they will come from . New foreign competition appears each day - not only in new services and end products ( 1986 was the year of the Hyundai and the Yugo , and 1987 brings Daihatsu , the ninth Japanese ...
... competitors will be , or where they will come from . New foreign competition appears each day - not only in new services and end products ( 1986 was the year of the Hyundai and the Yugo , and 1987 brings Daihatsu , the ninth Japanese ...
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... competitors are units spun off from big firms ( often following a hostile takeover or a leveraged buy - out , two of a vast number of new financing schemes speeding the pace of corporate overhaul ) or down- sized , newly autonomous ...
... competitors are units spun off from big firms ( often following a hostile takeover or a leveraged buy - out , two of a vast number of new financing schemes speeding the pace of corporate overhaul ) or down- sized , newly autonomous ...
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... competitors ( producers of both end products and sub- components ) with a piece of the action , and the similar ... competitor ▸ an old Japanese competitor continuing to reduce costs and improve quality ▸ a dozen domestic start - ups ...
... competitors ( producers of both end products and sub- components ) with a piece of the action , and the similar ... competitor ▸ an old Japanese competitor continuing to reduce costs and improve quality ▸ a dozen domestic start - ups ...
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... competitor that is tailor - making its products to suit the requirements or tastes of tiny groups of customers , thanks to a new , flexible Computer Integrated Manufacturing ( CIM ) system ‣ consumers demanding consistently high quality ...
... competitor that is tailor - making its products to suit the requirements or tastes of tiny groups of customers , thanks to a new , flexible Computer Integrated Manufacturing ( CIM ) system ‣ consumers demanding consistently high quality ...
Contents
Achieving Flexibility by Empowering People | 339 |
Involve Everyone in Everything | 341 |
A New View of Leadership at All Levels | 467 |
Building Systems for a World Turned Upside Down | 579 |
Measure Whats Important | 581 |
Strategic Planning | 609 |
Set Conservative Goals | 619 |
Demand Total Integrity | 627 |
Second Thoughts | 635 |
Appendix | 655 |
Acknowledgments | 667 |
Notes | 671 |
Index | 685 |
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