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Issue 1, 1992

Removing the Barriers to Becoming a High Performance...

Two years ago, one of our clients, the international Morgain Group (not its real name) tried to implement its internal vision of the High Performance Business. Having analyzed the sometimes conflicting needs of interested parties, Morgain had focused its efforts on improving crossfunctional...
Issue 4, 1992

Viewpoint Organisational Learning: The Key to Success in...

Ray Stata is chairman and CEO of Analog Devices, Inc. This article is based on a presentation Mr. Stata made to Arthur D. Little staff members in June 1992.
Issue 2, 1991

Technology Intelligence: A Powerful Tool for Competitive...

Among the many management and planning tools that are available to help companies identify, develop, and implement technology, one is often overlooked or underutilized: technology intelligence. Technology intelligence - a special form of competitive intelligence - can significantly reduce risk and...
Issue 4, 1991

Europe 1992: Issues and Opportunities

During the whole postwar period, Western Europe has been moving in fits and starts toward more intimate forms of economic cohesion that transcend the traditional relationships between individual nation states. Some visionaries have even promulgated ideas of eventual political union.
Issue 1, 1991

Beyond the Quality Revolution: Linking Quality to Corporate...

Victor Hugo once wrote that "there is nothing like dream to create the future," and history supports his claim. Hugo's own countryman and contemporary, Jules Verne, imagined a time when rockets might carry passengers bound for the moon. Centuries earlier, Leonardo da Vinci sketched a helicopter...
Issue 4, 1991

How Japanese Multinationals Work So Well

The Japanese multinational gains its efficiency and effectiveness through a management system superbly well equipped to handle complex coordination. Where the manufacturing processes are complex, where customers are fickle, and where technical innovations are continuously changing, Japanese...
Issue 1, 1991

Product Quality in Transition

In the 1980s, many Western companies discovered Total Quality Management. They implemented quality programs, formed teams, thought about customer-supplier relationships, trained staff in Quality Function Deployment and Ishikawa techniques, and appointed quality vice presidents and quality planning...
Issue 4, 1991

Viewpoint International, Multinational, and/or Global?

How do large, worldwide businesses evolve from international to multinational and then to global structures?
Issue 1, 1991

Consumer-Driven Innovative Product Development

To achieve Total Quality Management (TQM), companies must be customer-driven. In other words, they must translate what their customers want and need into products and services that fit those customers' criteria for purchase and repurchase decisions. To do so, companies must be able to measure the...
Issue 3, 1991

Environmental Excellence: Meeting the Challenge

Environmental, health, and safety management is one of the most pressing challenges facing corporations today. However, except for a handful of progressive companies, most organizations are not yet devoting to this critical area the full attention and resources it needs. The "wait-and-see"...