AGILE IN ACTION

Tuesday, 17 April 2007

I just came from there ...

Posted by Simon Baker
A market-by-market approach to organising production no longer makes sense in a global age. National silos gave rise to bloated and expensive bureaucracies that deployed inefficient, incompatible, and often redundant processes for making and marketing products locally. Insufficient knowledge transfer across organisational boundaries and departmental silos meant that most multinationals failed to seize opportunities for innovation and cost reduction.



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