A riveting inside look at an elite unit within the Pentagon--the Defense Innovation Unit, also known as Unit X--whose mission is to bring Silicon Valley's cutting-edge technology to America's from the two men who launched the unit.
In this revolutionary bestseller, Harvard professor Clayton M. Christensen says outstanding companies can do everything right and still lose their market leadership -- or worse, disappear completely. And he not only proves what he says, he tells others how to avoid a similar fate. Focusing on "disruptive technology" -- the Honda Super Cub, Intel's 8088 processor, or the hydraulic excavator, for…
This text develops a model which integrates various technologies in order to create distributed database access for a company's particular record, database and networking needs. It demonstrates how these technologies can be integrated using off-the-shelf open system components.
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The key to reengineering is abandoning the most basic notions on which the modern organization is founded, and the authors introduce the notion of process orientation, of concentrating on and rethinking end-to-end activities that create value for customers