Competing Against Time: How Time-Based Competition Is Reshaping Global Mar

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“A compelling case, supported by extensive research, that a new, time-driven paradigm differentiates successful companies from the ‘also rans.’” —Donald E. Petersen, Chairman and CEO, Ford Motor CompanyToday, time is the cutting edge. In fact, as a strategic weapon, contend George Stalk, Jr., and Thomas M. Hout, time is the equivalent of money, productivity, quality, even innovation. In this path-breaking book based upon ten years of research, the authors argue that the ways leading companies manage time—in production, in new product development, and in sales and distribution—represent the most powerful new sources of competitive advantage.With many detailed examples from companies that have put time-based strategies in place, such as Federal Express, Ford, Milliken, Honda, Deere, Toyota, Sun Microsystems, Wal-Mart, Citicorp, Harley-Davidson, and Mitsubishi, the authors describe exactly how reducing elapsed time can make the critical difference between success and failure. Give customers what they want when they want it, or the competition will. Time-based companies are offering greater varieties of products and services, at lower costs, and with quicker delivery times than their more pedestrian competitors. Moreover, the authors show that by refocusing their organizations on responsiveness, companies are discovering that long-held assumptions about the behavior of costs and customers are not true.Stalk and Hout conclude that virtually all businesses can use time as a competitive weapon. In industry after industry, they illustrate the processes involved in becoming a time-based competitor and the ways managers can open and sustain a significant advantage over the competition.“Stalk and Hout demonstrate conclusively that organizations must adopt fast cycle methodologies or succumb to those that do.” —Frederick W. Smith, CEO, Federal Express Corporation
Copyright:
1990

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Publisher Quality
Book Size:
304 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781439105412
Related ISBNs:
9780743253413
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster
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Copyrighted By:
Free Press
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Business and Finance
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Bookshare Staff
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