The Real-Time Enterprise: Competing on Time Using the Revolutionary Business Sex Machine

by Peter Fingar and Joe Bellini

Book Overview

There is no doubt something new is going on in business, though it may not be clear exactly what . . . Why is it that, given two companies with approximately the same assets and number of skilled... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0929652304
• ISBN13: 9780929652306
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: Meghan-Kiffer Press
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Very practical reading

The collaborative work of Peter Fingar (Executive Partner in the digital strategy firm the Greystone Group, and a noted expert on business process management who has taught computing studies courses in the U.S. and abroad) and Joseph Bellini (Senior Vice president of the Software Products and Services Division at Brooks Automation, a global leader in the semiconductor manufacturing industry), The Real-Time Enterprise: Competing On Time With The Revolutionary Business SEx Machine goes beyond buzzwords and hype to examine and explain the many facets of a real-time enterprise. Divided into eleven chapters that range from "The Real-Time Enterprise in Twenty Minutes" to "Thoughts and Strategies for the Real-Time Enterprise", the thoroughly "reader friendly" the informed and informative text is additionally enhanced with the inclusion of a Foreword by Max Moore; an appendices ("The Myths and Realities of the Real-Time Enterprise" and "Cycle-Time management: A Survey of Six Industries"); and a detailed index. Very practical reading, The Real-Time Enterprise is especially commended to the attention of business managers and entrepreneurs engaged in time-based competition in order to either protect or expand their corporate operations.