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Learning from the Best Leads to Superior Performance
Robert C. CampBenchmarking, an approach for establishing operating goals and productivity projects based on best‐industry practices, is perhaps the most exciting new tool in the quality field…
The Link Between Benchmarking and Shareholder Value
Jeffrey A. SchmidtToday, a growing number of companies are following the lead of their premier competitors and of world‐class companies as a result of insights gained from benchmarking. This…
How to Implement Competitive‐Cost Benchmarking
Alex MarkinCompetitive‐cost benchmarking is an action‐oriented tool that enables companies to quantify how their performance and costs compare against competitors, understand why their…
Benchmarking for Strategic Action
Kenneth Jennings, Frederick WestfallStrategy as a means to attain competitive advantage has evolved rapidly over the last 30 years. Today, it is a dominant lever available to management to implement competitive…
Get Middle Managers Involved in the Planning Process
Ronald L. NicholThe role of the strategist is changing from a strictly planning position to that of a craftsman, building new or enhanced capabilities to achieve new competitive advantages. To…
Prototyping: A Key to Managing Product Development
Dan DrozThe notion of working together in teams is like motherhood; everybody loves the idea. The benefits of team‐based product development, which have been well documented in numerous…
Creating Market Economies Within Companies
Jason Magidson, Andrew E. PolchaIn December 1991, General Motors Corp. announced that it would lay off 74,000 employees. The same month, The New York Times reported that Xerox Corp., Eastman Kodak Co., IBM…
Marketing the By‐Products of Development Programs
Klaus BrauerMuch of the laboratory capacity maintained by a firm to support the peaks in its development cycles can, between peaks, be made available to other companies. Similarly, inventions…
Partnering: Entering the Age of Cooperation
Frank K. SonnenbergReflecting on the ‘old days’—all of five or six years ago—a Chicago area supplier … sarcastically recalls how one of his big customers used to treat its suppliers. The strategy…
Gaining a Financial Foothold Through Public Warehousing
Michael JenkinsAlthough many companies have become financially weak in the current economy, Blue Diamond Growers, a worldwide producer and marketer of almonds, and Harley‐Davidson, Inc., are…
Operating a Manufacturing Plant in an Asian Culture
Ronald F. KonopackiWith many US companies owning production plants in foreign countries and others planning to do so, what does it take to run a metal fabricating plant overseas, especially in a…
Strategic Concepts at a Glance
Do attitudes differ among nations in their approach to product innovation? Arthur D. Little prepared a study which sought to determine how companies in the US, Europe, and Japan…
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