Reviews for Maintenance management and terotechnology

The average rating for Maintenance management and terotechnology based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-04-08 00:00:00 Mary Ireland The strongest chapters are 4-6. Chapter 4 introduces the idea of various stages of a business, and what capabilities excelling at each requires. The high-level insight is that going through these phases requires emphasizing certain skill -- eg cost control and operational excellence, vs customer intimacy to customize the product. The book provides an additional level of detail over Innovator's Dilemma, looking at an organization from the inside -- through incentives of the various functions, such as sales, finance, and engineering (the focus is on tech companies). Chapter 6 overlays the idea of company's overall culture and subcultures of various departments -- specifically, do they focus on objective vs subjective metrics, and on teams vs individuals. It almost feels like an additional book, and it's an extremely useful framework, helping to explain fit between culture and the kinds of challenges a company excels at and struggles. For instance, it helped me figure out how Apple excels by mostly focusing on the idea and tornado phases, with its mix of subjective-individual and control cultures. Intel, by contrast, operates in a business that is a good fit to its control culture -- its mass produced products call for less customer intimacy. The book was authored around 2000, so it suffers from the "Internet era radically changes everything, forever" and "time, not costs matter as being first to a market will permanently secure large future profits -- history shows that being dominant in a space and being first at any cost are far from being the same. Overall, I have found the book's models and observations about internal dynamics of companies and how they make tasks such as crossing the chasm and countering Innovator's Dilemma very illuminating -- and hopefully beneficial for my future investment analysis.

Review # 2 was written on 2019-01-29 00:00:00 David King Covers the topic well for the purposes of this non-specialist. Contains a great deal of jargon, but usually illustrated with case studies. Harrison shows a variety of ways a focal firm can exercise its strategy through supply chain management. This text encourages business owners to consider their entire supply chain network and whether their vendor relationships are congruent with their strategy.