Reviews for Philippines Industrial And Business Directory

The average rating for Philippines Industrial And Business Directory based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2011-05-07 00:00:00 Carmen Dipaolo This book gets five stars because it saved my business, if not my life. My business partner and I had been working 100+ hour weeks for months (I'd go home at midnight, come back at five or six and ask him if he was already back or still there - he'd typically answer "still here"). Clothes we would typically promise tomorrow were now being promised back a week from tomorrow - and they were still not done in time. It was Labor Day weekend and I was supposed to go to Hilton Head with my wife, but our dry cleaning plant manager ended up in the hospital and the cleaning duties fell to me. Our main cleaning machine suffered a major malfunction, putting us even further behind. I ended up calling on a fellow friend in the business to let me use his equipment. I could go on and on (my wife called on Labor Day to tell me about this great unknown band she'd seen the night before at the last show ever at the famed HH post office by the name of Hootie & the Blowfish - that didn't make me feel any better). Anyway, I spent that Labor Day at my friend's cleaners, catching up best I could. I then stopped at a local park on the way home and began reading this book, which had been given to me by my wife ("here, read this - I'll be in Hilton Head if you need anything"). Almost immediately the book began providing insight into the types of challenges we faced and the potential solutions. One, involving the flow of an unpaid invoice through IBM's accounting maze provided the framework for a solution to our production woes. A month later I took my first day off since the 4th of July. I credit this book, my business partner, my wife and our employees for making that possible. I don't know how much longer I could have survived. So, yes, this book saved a business and a life - and if that doesn't merit five stars, nothing does.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-08-03 00:00:00 Clinton Hyde In 1993, when this book was published for the first time, most organizations in America had became inefficient and mammoth proportions monsters, spending ridiculous ammounts of money with useless systems, hardware, offices and any sort of pointless extravagances. The original idea was an easy concept, but the implications (specially in a giant organization) were huge: it was about time to re-think the whole company, and decide what could (and should) be cut. Unfortunatelly, some ideas were misunderstood, and "reengineering" became synonymous with "fire everybody to cut costs" - which was not the main argument of the authors. This is one of the books with the ability to change the course of thoughts and ideas - long story short, a classic.