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Strategic Operations by Robert H. Hayes & Gary P. Pisano & David M. Upton
Competing Through Capabilities
Many companies adopt an improvement programme without enjoying success. This work emphasises the manufacturing process itself as a competitive weapon.It specifies the kind of competitive advantage each company is seeking in its marketplace, and shows how that advantage is to be achieved.Designed for the second year elective opted by a third of the student body at the Harvard Business School, Hayes, Pisano and Upton break new ground in this text/casebook by emphasizing the manufacturing process itself as a competitive weapon. Today, companies typically adopt one or more of a growing number of improvement programs, such as TQM (Total Quality Management), JIT (Just-in-Time) production, and DFM (Design for Manufacturability).The majority of these improvement efforts, according to recent surveys, have not been successful. By pinning their hopes on a few best-practice approaches, managers implicitly abandon the central concept of a strategy in favor of a generic approach to competitive success. In clear, accessible prose, the authors propose a new explanation for the problems companies face by specifying the kind of competitive advantage each company is seeking in its marketplace and articulates how that advantage is to be achieved. |
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| Author(s) : Gary P. Pisano & David M. Upton | Format : Hardback Book |
| ISBN-10 : 0684823055 | ISBN-13 : 9780684823058 |
| RRP : £35.00 | Best available price : £ / $ |
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Product Details:
Country Publication : United States
Publication Date : 07/08/1996
Publisher : Simon & Schuster Ltd
Page Length : 912mm
Page Size : 210mm