{"product_id":"9781438400242","title":"Communication and High-Speed Management","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis book provides a new understanding of the role communication plays in integrating, controlling, and coordinating high performance organizations.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHigh-speed management is used to competitive advantage by some of the most successful organizations in the world—General Electric; Toyota; ASEA, Brown, and Boveri; Motorola; Intel; and Matsushita. In these very successful companies fast cycle time or high-speed management translates into two important organizational capabilities. First, it creates a high level of performance that management can build into a firm’s operating systems. More specifically, increases in effective communication are employed to eliminate bottlenecks, delays, and errors in production, cutting costs and improving quality. Second, high-speed management is an organizational strategy which continuously improves a firm’s integration, coordination, and control systems. It transforms all of a firm’s communication activities such as leadership, corporate climate, teamwork, worker and unit interfaces, process mapping, and outside linking processes into a more responsive customer adaptation system.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"State University of New York Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47142341509360,"sku":"9781438400242","price":31.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781438400242_p0.jpg?v=1763757456","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781438400242","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}