Fast Cycle Time: How to Align Purpose, Strategy, and Structure for Speed

Meyer, Christopher

ISBN 10: 0029211816 / ISBN 13: 9780029211816

Published by Free Press, New York, 1993

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xiii, 290 pp. Fifth printing Remainder mark on lower page edges. The jacket has a 1/2" closed tear at the head of the rear panel. How to make Total Quality into a bigger competitive edge.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Fast Cycle Time: How to Align Purpose, Strategy, and Structure for Speed
• Publisher: Free Press, New York
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0029211816
• ISBN 13: 9780029211816
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: Reprint
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Very Good

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Synopsis

Inspired by such corporations as Motorola, General Electric, Citicorp, and others who have cut production time in half, many companies struggle to become "time-based" competitors. Christopher Meyer demonstrates that fast-cycle time is achieved by aligning the organization to learn faster, instead of merely working faster. He describes how to assemble multifunctional teams into integrated production systems by empowering workers with an eight-step process and "tool kit" to reduce non-value-added activities, and shows why fast-cycle time is the competitive requirement for any industry in the 1990s.

About the Author

Christopher Meyer is the founder and Managing Director of the Strategic Alignment Group in Portola Valley, California, a rapidly growing management consulting firm with clients such as Ford Motor Company, Quantum Corporation, Procter & Gamble, and Glaxo lnc. He is also the creator of the California Institute of Technology seminar on time-based competition, the most widely attended public seminar of its kind.