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- catalog abstract "The great value of this timely, important book is that it provides an integrated picture of the customer-driven company of the future. We have begun to learn about lean production technology, stripped-down management, worker empowerment, flexible customized manufacturing, and other modern strategies, but Davidow and Malone show for the first time how these ideas are fitting together to create a new kind of corporation and a worldwide business revolution. Their research. Is fascinating. The authors provide illuminating case studies of American, Japanese, and European companies that have discovered the keys to improved competitiveness, redesigned their businesses and their business relationships, and made extraordinary gains. They also write bluntly and critically about a number of American corporations that are losing market share by clinging to outmoded thinking. Business success in the global marketplace of the future is going to. Depend upon corporations producing "virtual" products high in added value, rich in variety, and available instantly in response to customer needs. At the heart of this revolution will be fast new information technologies; increased emphasis on quality; accelerated product development; changing management practices, including new alignments between management and labor; and new linkages between company, supplier, and consumer, and between industry and government. The. Virtual Corporation is an important cutting-edge book that offers a creative synthesis of the most influential ideas in modern business theory. It has already fired excitement and debate in industry, academia, and government, and it is essential reading for anyone involved in the leadership of America's business and the shaping of America's economic future.".
- catalog contributor b4036044.
- catalog contributor b4036045.
- catalog created "c1992.".
- catalog date "1992".
- catalog date "c1992.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1992.".
- catalog description "A new kind of business -- An emerging idea -- Powers of information -- The upward curve of technology -- The future of design -- The machinery of change -- Shared dreams -- Rethinking management -- A new kind of worker -- Spreading the word -- Toward a revitalized economy.".
- catalog description "Depend upon corporations producing "virtual" products high in added value, rich in variety, and available instantly in response to customer needs. At the heart of this revolution will be fast new information technologies; increased emphasis on quality; accelerated product development; changing management practices, including new alignments between management and labor; and new linkages between company, supplier, and consumer, and between industry and government. The.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-284) and index.".
- catalog description "Is fascinating. The authors provide illuminating case studies of American, Japanese, and European companies that have discovered the keys to improved competitiveness, redesigned their businesses and their business relationships, and made extraordinary gains. They also write bluntly and critically about a number of American corporations that are losing market share by clinging to outmoded thinking. Business success in the global marketplace of the future is going to.".
- catalog description "The great value of this timely, important book is that it provides an integrated picture of the customer-driven company of the future. We have begun to learn about lean production technology, stripped-down management, worker empowerment, flexible customized manufacturing, and other modern strategies, but Davidow and Malone show for the first time how these ideas are fitting together to create a new kind of corporation and a worldwide business revolution. Their research.".
- catalog description "Virtual Corporation is an important cutting-edge book that offers a creative synthesis of the most influential ideas in modern business theory. It has already fired excitement and debate in industry, academia, and government, and it is essential reading for anyone involved in the leadership of America's business and the shaping of America's economic future.".
- catalog extent "x, 294 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Virtual corporation.".
- catalog identifier "0887305938 (cloth) :".
- catalog isFormatOf "Virtual corporation.".
- catalog issued "1992".
- catalog issued "c1992.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Edward Burlingame Books/HarperBusiness,".
- catalog relation "Virtual corporation.".
- catalog subject "658.5 20".
- catalog subject "HD45 .D33 1992".
- catalog subject "Manufactures Technological innovations Management Case studies.".
- catalog subject "New products Management Case studies.".
- catalog subject "Service industries Technological innovations Management Case studies.".
- catalog subject "Technological innovations Management Case studies.".
- catalog tableOfContents "A new kind of business -- An emerging idea -- Powers of information -- The upward curve of technology -- The future of design -- The machinery of change -- Shared dreams -- Rethinking management -- A new kind of worker -- Spreading the word -- Toward a revitalized economy.".
- catalog title "The virtual corporation : structuring and revitalizing the corporation for the 21st century / William H. Davidow, Michael S. Malone.".
- catalog type "Case studies. fast".
- catalog type "text".