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This is an examination of one of the most puzzling and important issues in western economic analysis - corporate inertia in the face of known threats to survival. The book is part synthetic, drawing together work on the subject in the US and Europe, part based on intensive case studies of firms such as Lockheed and Xerox, and part theoretical.The author argues that the concepts of corporate culture and identity widely used in business strategy are flawed and have resulted in a widespread inability to adopt appropriate strategies for change, as well as in mistaken decisions on location, manufacturing method, introduction of new technology and product design. The stakes surrounding the issue are high as they involve the social and economic well-being of large numbers of people. Industrial competitiveness is not the only factor in social well-being - and becoming competitive can itself result in dislocation and distress. But not being competitive at all is worse.

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Title: An Exploratory Examination Of The Knowledge Transfer Of Strategic Management Concepts From The Academic Environment To Practicing Managers.
Author: Paul G. Simmonds
Publication: Journal of Managerial Issues (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 2001
Publisher: Pittsburg State University - Department of Economics
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Field Guide to Strategy: A Glossary of Essential Tools and Concepts for Today's Manager (Harvard Business/the Economist Reference Series)

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Good one!.......2003-07-27

Chapters are straight to the point, assuming that you have somehow mastered the basics. Cases are worth reading and thinking through then apply to your own real (business) lives.

Capstone Review.......2003-04-27

Overall, I liked this book. The chapters were short and easy to read. I liked the fact that it contained a lot of cases. However, I wish the author had included some analysis to get the reader started.

An Excellent Introduction to Management Tool.......2003-04-08

This book is wonderful. It offers a wide array of topics and combines them with case studies that make the reader reflect on the material in the chapter. Prior experience in strategic management is not required, as the basic concepts are clearly defined.

The book is so expensive........1999-02-27

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This book presents fifteen essays, written over the past dozen years, that explore contemporary philosophical debates on egalitarianism, using the tools of modern economic theory, general equilibrium theory, game theory, and the theory of mechanism design. Egalitarian Perspectives is divided into four parts: the first part presents Roemer's influential reconceptualization of the Marxian theory of exploitation as a theory of distributive justice; the second part offers a critique of Ronald Dworkin's equality-of-resources theory; the third part introduces a novel application of the theory of mechanism design to the study of political philosophy; and the fourth part presents the author's views on market socialism and public ownership, and demonstrates that Professor Roemer is at the forefront of refining new theories and conceptions of market socialism.

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John E. Roemer
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Title: Studies in the Interwar European Economy.(Review) (book review)
Author: John Papadimas
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Women Workers in the Soviet Interwar Economy: From 'Protection' to 'Equality' (Studies in Russian & Eastern European History)

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Women Workers in the Soviet Interwar Economy: From 'Protection' to 'Equality' (Studies in Russian & Eastern European History)
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This book examines the changes in official policy towards the introduction of protective labor legislation for women workers in the Soviet Union during the period 1917-41. In the 1920s, emphasis was placed on the need for the "protection" of female labor by the agencies responsible for regulating womens' role in industrial production. With the mass recruitment of women workers to the Soviet industrialization drive by the early 1930s, labor protection issues were often ignored as women were encouraged to play a more "equal" role in the production process.

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Make the most of sales and marketing

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Forget the old-school approach to Sales and Marketing. These six winning practices put those departments back on par with the rest of the modern business world, and opens the door to higher profits.

Based on studies in more than sixty companies -- many of them winners of the prestigious Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award -- this resource spotlights six reliable, results-generating improvement techniques, and shows how to deploy them successfully in the sales and marketing departments of any organization. The author describes each winning practice in detail, explains how each applies to sales and marketing, and provides illuminating examples of how Texas Instruments, Federal Express, Xerox and many other equally successful but less well known companies have applied the six practices in their organizations. Includes practical guidance for avoiding common pitfalls, along with an action plan for implementation.

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One Star is Too Generous!.......2006-04-30

The author couldn't lead a fly to cr*p, and the book is poorly written. Don't waste your money.

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timely book but needs editing

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Mending Manufacturing: How America Can Manufacture Its Survival
Peggy Smedley
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Mending Manufacturing is the most comprehensive book to cover all aspects of the crisis in American manufacturing. The author stresses the United States is facing a manufacturing emergency, and unless Washington acts swiftly and decisively, the U.S. could plummet into a second-class industrial power. It reveals the history behind the industry's outsourcing of jobs and production to foreign nations, and questions whether the U.S. can sustain as an economic power without a solid manufacturing base.

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timely book but needs editing.......2005-03-07

I was hoping Mending Manufacturing would be a worthy successor to Eamonn Fingleton's In Praise of Hard Industry. Both books address the importance of domestic manufacturing to our surviving and thriving as a nation.

Unfortunately, Mending Manufacturing is in dire need of proofreading and editing.

At times, the book's first half does succeed in communicating the value and peril of our manufacturing sector. At other times, however, it ranges from unclear to incomprehensible.

The second half is much better. It features transcripts of interviews with manufacturing executives. This half is focused and insightfully addresses American manufacturing: its strengths, vulnerabilities and needed corrections.

I hope the author/publisher will write another book and have it proofread and edited, checked for slips in grammar and gaps in train of thought.

America's manufacturing is essential and is in danger. I hope Peggy Smedley and other authors will continue to speak out for it.

Marv Steinlauf's review of Peggy's Mending Manufacturing.......2004-11-25

I found Peggy's book user friendly to read in the business language that a non-college person like myself can understand. I felt and enjoyed her sense of urgency to get more and more of the manufacturing jobs back here in the states from overseas. I agree, the future is grime if the process she outlined doesn't happen. I recommend this book to anyone who is interested in learning about Lean Manufacturing and the importance of applying it.

Peggy, when are you going to write your sequel?

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An ES Manifesto with Instructions

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Mission Critical: Realizing the Promise of Enterprise Systems
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As information-dependent companies of all types continually expand, acquire, merge, and globalize, the need to share critical data--between far-flung sites, independent divisions, and even neighboring departments--increases exponentially. Thomas Davenport, director of the Institute for Strategic Change at Andersen Consulting and a professor of information management at Boston University, advocates integrated enterprise systems (or ESs) to expedite the process. In Mission Critical, he explains how these inherently complicated, unfailingly expensive, and yet potentially vital programs can best be coordinated with existing operations. He explores specific benefits as well as possible drawbacks. And he shows why some of the biggest players in the business world have succeeded in their ES efforts, while others with equal resources and similar goals have not.

While a properly designed ES will facilitate rapid dissemination of electronic data to pertinent employees, partners, and customers through Internet or intranet access, Davenport repeatedly claims, the key is handling this "as a business project, not a technical one." This means clearly defining objectives from the outset, utilizing executives with power to execute the required organizational changes, and incorporating explicit across-the-board incentives and penalties that are tied to the project's ultimate conclusion. Top managers and information specialists will find helpful guidance here on all relevant aspects of the process, including pre-implementation procedures, software selection, organization-wide strategies, and tips on using an ES to its full advantage. --Howard Rothman

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A No-Nonsense Guide to the Benefits and Pitfalls of Enterprise-Wide Information Systems

How many organizations would doubt the promise of an integrated enterprise system (ES)? Not many, judging by a $15 billion industry. The combination of an ES as a platform for organizational information and Internet technology for gaining access to it adds up to the ideal solution for company-wide data sharing in real time. Not surprisingly, small and large companies worldwide are either considering an ES, in the process of implementing one, or living with the results. Yet, says Tom Davenport, unless managers view ES adoption and implementation as a business decision rather than a technology decision, they may be risking disappointment

Mission Critical presents an authoritative and no-nonsense view of the ES opportunities and challenges. Suggesting ESs are not the right choice for every company, the author provides a set of guidelines to help managers evaluate the benefits and risks for their organizations. To be successful, argues Davenport, an organization must make simultaneous changes in its information systems, its business processes, and its business strategy. Such changes are described in detail with extensive examples from real organizations. Bolstering his contention that ESs should be viewed as business vs. technology projects, Davenport spells out the specific business change objectives that should be formulated in advance of ES adoption and monitored throughout its implementation.

The first strategic guide to the ES decision, Mission Critical will be indispensable to general managers and information technology specialists at all stages of the implementation process.

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Best book on strategic issues of ERP systems.......2005-09-27

This book has never received the recognition that it deserves.

It is about ERP systems ... or Enterprise Systems (ES) as Davenport calls them.

If you're interested in the STRATEGIC issues of ERP systems, then you'll learn that there are surprisingly few books on this topic on the market.

Davenport's contributions are the best that I've found. Especially, I found his discussion of implementation approaches on speed and focus (quick relief vs. long-term competitiveness) interesting. Also his perspectives on "after the implementation" were far ahead of his time. In addition, his considerations on the implementation plan's options on scope and function (process phasing vs. big bang vs. geographical or business unit phasing) are illustrative.

Perhaps Davenport's book could be better structured, but considering the quality of the arguments in the text, I can live with it. Content before structure. Five stars!

Peter Drucker wrote in 1999 "we have spend the last 50 years on the T in IT, we need to spend the next 50 years on the I in IT". If you read Davenport's book, you'll be better prepared to capture the information part than the technology part in ERP systems.

If you're interested in the more tactical and operational issues of ERP systems, then buy Brady's "Concepts in Enterprise Resource Planning" (2001) and Hamilton's "Maximizing your ERP System - A practical guide for managers [in manufacturing firms]" (2002). I also recommend Kalakota's "E-Services" (2003) that takes the full concept of the next step for an extended ERP system (including Multi-Channel Customer Relationship Management, Supply Chain Management, Product Lifecycle Management, Employee and Business Partner Collaboration, etc). Finally I have to mention "Why ERP? A Primer on SAP Implementation" by Jacobs and Whybark. It's a wonderful little book - actually a business novel - on ERP systems. I read it twice ... before entering a job as e-business manager with SAP R/3 as back-end system. Great help.

Peter Leerskov,
MSc in International Business (Marketing & Management) and Graduate Diploma in E-business

Good insights on ERP [for management]..........2003-04-06

A very good read for managers and implementors who are ready to embark on an ERP installation. Chapters are logically organised, although I am holding back the last star because of the way Davenport has organised the content within chapters. You won't really notice it if you are reading the book back-to-back, but it's quite obvious when you try making notes from chapters. Sometimes, bits of information are scattered across sections in chapters.

There are important topics on creating benefits in the installation, and how to avoid failures. In particular, I felt the sections on how an ERP installation affects competitive strategy, organisational structure and culture very impressive; it's hard to find such stuff so well-written in many books.

The sections on pre-, during, and post-implementation issues are interesting read and I feel complemented Daniel O'Leary's "Enterprise Resource Planning Systems: Systems, Life Cycles, Electronic Commerce and Risk" 2000, Cambridge University Press very well. The interested reader should read both sections from both books. :)

Knowledgable, Hot Topics -but poor organization.......2001-05-08

Davenport presented his experience and opinion in one medium-size book (300 pages), covered almost every aspects of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), which he called it Enterprise System (ES). This book is intended for both practitioners and students, and I found it serves its objectives. Starting with the definition, advantages/disadvantages, implementation, strategic integration, Information Technology (IT), business process, managing Supply Chain with ERP, and future of ERP in organization. The topics are the most popular questions in ERP decision, implementation, and continuous improvement. I would rate this book at five stars; however, there are something that I put four stars for this book -as follows: 1) Although the topics are hot and referred to many business cases, the organization of each chapter is terrible. I got lost several times in chapter or between chapters. 2) Each chapter referes back-and-forth to other chapters, which is quite useful for further reference. I, however, found they are too many referals. Again, this makes almost every chapters are not much different than others. Except for the book organization, this book is quite good for its content. I wish Davenport may consider to re-organize the second edition of this book or his new book. His knowledge in this area is exceptional, only it's required lots of organized. This book offers many excellent points of "after-ERP", which is rarely found in most ERP books. Good but not great book. Therefore, this is not the single book if you plan to get only one. You may consider O'Leary's book (ISBN 0521791529) or Brady et al. (ISBN 0619015934), if you are new to ERP and get Davenport's book for supplement.

An ES Manifesto with Instructions.......2000-08-18

Davenport does a brilliant job of explaining what enterprise systems are and what they can accomplish in any organization. He suggests, however, that they are worthless "unless they lead to better information or better ways of doing business. I think that enterprise systems are without doubt an impressive technical feat, but I am primarily concerned that organizations get business value from them." Throughout his book, he addresses key issues such as these:

1. What enterprise systems are and why they are important

2. The promise and the perils involved

3. How to decide whether or not to implement enterprise systems

4. How to integrate enterprise systems with strategy and organizational structure

5. How to integrate enterprise systems with business processes and information

6. How to achieve value while implementing enterprise systems

7. How to transform the practice of management with enterprise systems

8. How to use enterprise systems to manage the supply chain

9. The future of ES-enabled organizations

As Davenport explains in Chapter 1, "Enterprise systems offer the first great opportunity to achieve true connectivity, a state in which everyone knows what everyone else is doing in the business all over the world at the same time. And because they represent the first great opportunity for connectivity, they pose one of the greatest threats to the status quo that companies have ever faced." Hence the importance of one of the the book's most valuable sections, the Appendix, in which Davenport provides "A Technical Overview of Enterprise Systems." Those who feel threatened by an enterprise system will seize any and all opportunities to point out its technical flaws. At best, enterprise systems are complex, difficult to install, and inflexible. However, Davenport points out, they "will remain the most capable, integrated systems in the history of the world. They may have their flaws, but they are also the answer to our information systems prayers." I agree.

A prerequisite for e-commerce.......2000-08-02

One overlooked aspect of this book and subject is its importance to electronic commerce. Davenport points out that you can't do a good job of serving customers over the Internet if you don't have your back office in order. He describes how several companies, including Cisco Systems, have connected their enterprise systems to their Internet-based customer service systems. For me this was the most useful insight in the book, though there are many more.

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Rowan Miranda
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Title: Mission Critical: Realizing the Promise of Enterprise Systems.(Review) (book review)
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Date: December 1, 2000
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