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Satisfying your customers and dominating your market practically guarantees future failure. Successful companies, asserts Harvard Business School's Clayton Christensen, ignore potentially disruptive product innovations, and thus discard the tools new entrants will use to redefine the market. While this dilemma stems mainly from innovation in the arena of "hard" products, it serves as a timely reminder of the challenges that come with all kinds of innovation. For now, spurred by global competition, companies must constantly introduce new innovations, not only on the Internet, but also in how they gather information from customers, develop new products in ever-decreasing time spans, form strategic partnerships with customers and suppliers, outsource to organizations with specialized capabilities, and run processes more efficiently. |
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Accelerating Innovation Improving the Process of Product Development | Marvin Patterson|1993
Advanced Supply Chain Management How to Build a Sustained Competitive Advantage | Charles Poirier|1999 Agile Competitors and Virtual Organizations Strategies for Enriching the Customer | Steven Goldman, Roger Nagel, Kenneth Preiss|1995 Agile Product Development for Mass Customization How to Develop and Deliver Products for Mass Customization, Niche Markets, JIT, Build-to-Order and Flexible Manufacturing | David Anderson|1997 America's Best IndustryWeek's Guide to World-Class Manufacturing Plants | Theodore Kinni|1997 Balanced Sourcing Cooperation and Competition in Supplier Relationships | Tim Laseter|1998 Beyond Reengineering How the Process-Centered Organization Is Changing Our Work and Our Lives | Michael Hammer|1996 The Case Against ISO 9000 There Is a Better Way to: Improve Your Efficiency, Satisfy Your Customers, Provide Real Quality and Increase Your Revenue! | John Seddon|2000 Channel Champions How Leading Companies Build New Strategies to Serve Customers | Steven Wheeler, Evan Hirsh|1999 Commercializing New Technologies Getting from Mind to Market | Vijay Jolly|1997 A Complaint is a Gift Using Customer Feedback as a Strategic Tool | Janelle Barlow, Claus Moller|1996 Creating an Environment for Successful Projects The Quest to Manage Project Management | Robert Graham, Randall Englund|1997 Delivering Knock Your Socks Off Service | Kristin Anderson, Ron Zemke|1998 The Development Factory Unlocking the Potential of Process Innovation | Gary Pisano|1997 Discovering the Soul of Service The Nine Drivers of Sustainable Business Success | Leonard Berry|1999 Effective Project Management | Robert Wysocki, Robert Beck, David Crane|2000 The Electronic B@zaar From the Silk Road to the eRoad | Robin Bloor|2000 The Executive's Guide to Supply Management Strategies Building Supply Chain Thinking into All Business Processes | David Riggs, Sharon Robbins|1997 Fabled Service Ordinary Acts, Extraordinary Outcomes | Betsy Sanders|1995 From Mind to Market Reinventing the Retail Supply Chain | Roger Blackwell|1997 Gemba Kaizen A Commonsense, Low-Cost Approach to Management | Masaaki Imai|1997 Global Jumpstart The Complete Resource for Expanding Small and Midsize Businesses | Ruth Stanat, Chris West|1999 The Global Manufacturing Vanguard New Rules from the Industy Elite | Micheline Maynard|1998 Harnessing Value in the Supply Chain Strategic Sourcing in Action | Emiko Banfield|1999 Implementing Activity-Based Management in Daily Operations John Miller|1996 The Innovation Journey | Andrew Van de Ven, Douglas Polley, Raghu Garud, Sankaran Venkataraman|1999 Intrapreneuring in Action A Handbook for Business Innovation | Gifford Pinchot, Ron Pellman|1999 Invented Here Maximizing Your Organization's Internal Growth and Profitability: A Practical Guide to Transforming Work | Bart Victor, Andrew Boynton|1998 Leading Manufacturing Excellence A Guide to State-of-the-Art Manufacturing | Patricia Moody|1997 Managing Projects in Organizations How to Make the Best Use of Time, Techniques, and People | Davidson Frame|1995 Managing Quality Fads How American Business Learned to Play the Quality Game | Robert Cole|1999 Managing The Whirlwind Patterns and Opportunities in a Changing World | Michael Annison|1993 A Manufacturing CEO's Secret Tips for Improving Profit Richard Ludwig|1996 Mass Customization The New Frontier in Business Competition | Joseph Pine|1993 Mastering Project Management Applying Advanced Concepts of Systems Thinking, Control and Evaluation, Resource Allocation | James Lewis|1998 Monitoring, Measuring, & Managing Customer Service | Gary Goodman|2000 The Nordstrom Way The Inside Story of America's #1 Customer Service Company | Robert Spector, Patrick McCarthy|2000 On Great Service A Framework for Action | Leonard Berry|1995 Portfolio Management for New Products | Robert Cooper, Scott Edgett, Elko Kleinschmidt|1998 The Power of Product Platforms Building Value and Cost Leadership | Marc Meyer, Alvin Lehnerd|1997 The Process Edge Creating Value Where It Counts | Peter Keen|1997 Process Mapping How to Reengineer Your Business Processes | Daniel Hunt|1996 Product Innovation Strategy Pure & Simple How Winning Companies Outpace their Competitors | Michel Robert|1995 Product Juggernauts How Companies Mobilize to Generate a Stream of Market Winners | Jean-Philippe Deschamps, Ranganath Nayak|1995 Product Leadership Creating and Launching Superior New Products | Robert Cooper|2000 Quality Is Still Free Making Quality Certain in Uncertain Times | Philip Crosby|1996 Reengineering the Corporation A Manifesto for Business Revolution | Michael Hammer, James Champy|1993 Remade in America Transplanting and Transforming Japanese Mangement Systems | Jeffrey Liker, Mark Fruin, Paul Adler|1999 Sales Shock The End of Selling Products The Rise of CoManaging Customers | Mack Hanan|1996 Serious Play How the World's Best Companies Simulate to Innovate | Michael Schrage|2000 Setting the PACE in Product Development A Guide to Product And Cycle-time Excellence | Michael McGrath|1996 Seven Secrets of Service Strategy | Jacques Horovitz|2000 The Six Sigma Revolution How General Electric and Others Turned Process Into Profits | George Eckes|2000 The Six Sigma Way How GE, Motorola, and Other Top Companies Are Honing their Performance | Peter Pande, Robert Neuman, Roland Cavanagh|2000 Smart Companies, Smart Tools Transforming Business Processes into Business Assets | Thomas Koulopoulos|1997 The Soul of the Enterprise Creating a Dynamic Vision for American Manufacturing | Robert Hall|1993 Strategic Outsourcing A Structured Approach to Outsourcing Decisions and Initiatives | Maurice Greaver|1999 Strategies for High Performance Organizations Employee Involvement, TQM, and Reengineering Programs in Fortune 1000 Corporations | Edward Lawler, Susan Albers Mohrman, Gerald Ledford|1998 Supercharging Supply Chains New Ways to Increase Value Through Global Operational Excellence | Gene Tyndall, Christopher Gopal, Wolfgang Partsch, John Kamauff|1998 Supply Chain Optimization Building the Strongest Total Business Network | Charles Poirier, Stephen Reiter|1996 A Survival Guide for Project Managers James Taylor|1998 Team-Based Project Management James Lewis|1998 Transcultural Management A New Approach for Global Organizations | Atsushi Funakawa|1997 The Transformation Imperative Achieving Market Dominance Through Radical Change | Thomas Vollmann|1996 What Customers Like About You Adding Emotional Value for Service Excellence and Competitive Advantage | David Freemantle|1999 Winning Business Proposals | Deiric McCann|2000 World Class Manufacturing: The Next Decade Building Power, Strength, and Value | Richard Schonberger|1996 World Class Production and Inventory Management Darryl Landvater|1997 World-Class New Product Development Benchmarking Best Practices of Agile Manufacturers | Dan Dimancescu, Kemp Dwenger|1996 You Will Be Satisfied | Bob Tasca|1997 Zero Time Providing Instant Customer Value—Every Time, All the Time! | PhD Yeh, DBA Pearlson, George Kozmetsky|2000 |
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