Management Quality and Competitiveness Lessons from the Industrial Excellence Award /

• Main Authors: Loch, Christoph H. (Author), Chick, Stephen E. (Author), Huchzermeier, Arnd (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008.
• Subjects: Business.; Management science.; Management.; Production management.; Business and Management.; Business and Management, general.; Operations Management.

This book showcases examples of excellent manufacturing companies who have succeeded in creating value and job growth in Western Europe. The examples show managers of industrial firms how a clearly articulated strategic position can be combined with excellent execution to achieve competitiveness in...

Table of Contents:

• The Challenge
• Management Quality and Strategic Positioning
• Management Quality, Innovation, and Services
• Rational: Innovation and Game-Changing Products
• Imaje: From Products to Services Through Innovation
• BuS: “We Do What No One Else Does”
• Networked Strategy
• VARTA Microbattery: Producing at the Right Place
• Hewlett Packard Herrenberg: Partnership Solutions
• Fujitsu Siemens Computers: Outsourcing and Supply Chain Mastery
• RDME: Re-Importing Jobs from Brazil
• What Does this Mean? Implications of the Industrial Excellence Examples
• Offshoring and Jobs: Zyme, Dyson, and Some General Lessons
• Accountability for Competitiveness, Collaboration for Jobs.