Description

Management Quality and Competitiveness

Lessons from the Industrial Excellence Award

By: Christoph H. Loch, Stephen E. Chick, Arnd Huchzermeier

Publisher: Springer, 1 Edition (2008)

Pages: 156

Format: Ebook (PDF)

Description

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 Europe, in spite of the usually cited disadvantage of high labor costs and rigidity. Not every company is alike — strategic positions differ, and the means of execution differ, but what is common is a clear plan together with mobilization of all employees to apply their abilities in supporting this common plan. The book is indispensable reading for all managers that are interested in improving competitiveness.

Table Of Contents

• Front Matter

  Pages I-XI

• The Challenge

  1. Management Quality and Strategic Positioning

     Pages 3-22

• Management Quality, Innovation, and Services

  1. Rational: Innovation and Game-Changing Products

     Pages 25-36
  2. Imaje: From Products to Services Through Innovation

     Pages 37-47
  3. BuS: “We Do What No One Else Does”

     Pages 49-58

• Networked Strategy

  1. VARTA Microbattery: Producing at the Right Place

     Pages 61-71
  2. Hewlett Packard Herrenberg: Partnership Solutions

     Pages 73-83
  3. Fujitsu Siemens Computers: Outsourcing and Supply Chain Mastery

     Pages 85-96
  4. RDME: Re-Importing Jobs from Brazil

     Pages 97-108

• What Does this Mean? Implications of the Industrial Excellence Examples

  1. Offshoring and Jobs: Zyme, Dyson, and Some General Lessons

     Pages 111-128
  2. Accountability for Competitiveness, Collaboration for Jobs

     Pages 129-146
• Back Matter

  Pages 147-156