The High-Velocity Edge: How Market Leaders Leverage Operational Excellence to Beat the Competition
Автор:Steven J. Spear Год: 2009 Издание:McGraw-Hill Irwin Страниц: 432 ISBN: 0071741410, 9780071741415 How can some companies perform so well that their industry counterparts are competitors in name only? Although they operate in the same industry, serve the same market, and even use the same suppliers, these extraordinary, high-velocity organizations consistently outperform all the competition - and, more importantly, continually widen their leads. In "The High-Velocity Edge", the reissued edition of five-time Shingo Prize winner Steven J. Spear's critically acclaimed book Chasing the Rabbit, Spear describes what sets market-dominating companies apart and provides a detailed framework you can leverage to surge to the lead in your own industry. Spear examines the internal operations of dominant organizations across a wide spectrum of industries, from technology to design and from manufacturing to health care. While he investigates several great operational triumphs, like top-tier teaching hospitals' fantastic improvements in quality of care, Pratt & Whitney's competitive...
