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New in paperback--the bold new strategy for reinventing competition, written by the authors of the popular Reengineering the Corporation. Treacy and Wiersma describe in detail how companies such as Wal-Mart, Southwest Airlines, Charles Schwab, and Intel are creating havoc for their competitors by ...

New in paperback--the bold new strategy for reinventing competition, written by the authors of the popular Reengineering the Corporation. Treacy and Wiersma describe in detail how companies such as Wal-Mart, Southwest Airlines, Charles Schwab, and Intel are creating havoc for their competitors by raising and reshaping customers' value expectations.

This volume brings together papers by the best known authorities on effective policies and practical guidelines for enhancing productivity and quality, combining them with those by leaders of America's high performance companies which describe their actual experiences with productivity and quality ...

This volume brings together papers by the best known authorities on effective policies and practical guidelines for enhancing productivity and quality, combining them with those by leaders of America's high performance companies which describe their actual experiences with productivity and quality. In addition to describing policies and programs, the volume provides a framework for implementation including creating awareness, measuring inputs and outputs, designing and initiating programs, and follow-up procedures. The contributors also examine public policy changes aimed at encouraging R&D and capital investment, eliminating government constraints in the global marketplace, and improving education and training.

Arogyaswamy and Simmons combine the technique of value analysis and the concept of the value chain to build a perspective on value that is at once comprehensive and practical. They provide a methodology for formulating value-based strategy as well as a system for managing the value-directed ...

Arogyaswamy and Simmons combine the technique of value analysis and the concept of the value chain to build a perspective on value that is at once comprehensive and practical. They provide a methodology for formulating value-based strategy as well as a system for managing the value-directed organization. The management system proposed is based upon the high value Just-in-Time (JIT) and Total Quality Control (TQC) principles successfully deployed by numerous Japanese (and more recently American) firms. In a sense, this book brings together the American and Japanese streams of value creation. Essentially, the authors argue that accepting and, indeed, increasing inter-dependencies within activities (design, operations, marketing) is imperative in order not only to create value but also to build the value-creating organization. Effective integration among activities is the second key ingredient, while involvement by deemphasizing power-based relationships - by providing knowledge and information, as well as the,opportunity and the desire to use both - is the third requirement, and one that makes the process of value creation self-sustaining. The authors discuss the cultural traits most conducive to value enhancement and specifically tackle the ingraining process. The measurement of improvements both in value - as received and in the process of value delivery itself is extensively discussed. Numerous practical value indicators to assess progress in value creation are proposed. Being a judicious how-to, why-to amalgam, the book will appeal equally to executives and managers seeking to install value as a guide to action, as well as to graduate and advanced undergraduate students seeking therationale underlying value management.