Title: Competing Against Time
Author(s): George Stalk and Thomas Hout
Publisher: Free Press, 1997

French title: Vaincre le temps
Publisher: Dunod, 1997

This book presents concept of “Time-Based Competition” developed by the Boston Consulting Group, whose principle consists of improving corporate flexibility and performance by rethinking processes to eliminate dead time and needless delays. This book is consequently a forerunner of the reengineering wave, and the basic principles of that approach can already be seen here.

Main subject [Maîtrise du temps]
See also [Reengineering]

 

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Further readings:
LE SYSTEME QUI VA CHANGER LE MONDE, James P. Womack, Daniel T. Jones and Daniel Roos, Dunod, 1992, 349 p.
• TIME BASED COMPETITION, J. D. Blackburn, Business One Irwin, 1991, 314 p.
REVOLUTIONIZING PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT, Steven C. Wheelwright and Kim B. Clark, Free Press, 1992, 364 p.
• PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT PERFORMANCE, Kim B. Clark and Takahiro Fujimoto, Harvard Business School Press, 1991, 409 p.

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