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organizational culture (cont) production (cont)
risk management see risk planned obsolescence 324–25
management process simplification 296–99 R
Shamrock Organization theory product quality and customer
77 loyalty 265–67
tolerant 74–75 product superiority and R&D
visual aspects 108 technological change 36, applying and testing ideas 310–11
see also equity and performance; 37–38 big data analysis 316–17
leadership; management; quality products and design and differentiation strategy 181–82,
shareholders 320–23 183
simultaneous engineering and market research 310–11
326–27 multidisciplinary aspect 311
P time-based management 326–27 reinvesting profits 301
see also waste reduction
see also innovation
profit levels Ratners 238
and business ethics 122–23 Reeves, Rosser 29, 31
Paccar 215 multinationals and profit shifting risk management 40–41, 157
Page, Larry 174 222 bankruptcy, protection against 141–42
Pears soap 273 price-fixing and competitiveness black swan events and future
performance, and equity see equity 222–23, 239 forecasting 198
and performance pushing to highest feasible point capability maturity model 218–19
Peters, Tom 55, 221, 298, 307, 121 contingency planning 210
338 quality and premium prices diversification 257
Pixar 83 266–67 employees, and firm failures 142–43
Ponzi schemes 153 reinvesting profits 301 equity and performance 142–43,
Porter, Michael 180–82, 184, 197, shareholders and profit 156–57
212–15, 218–19 maximization 124–25, 237–38 executives and CEOs 143–44
Post-it Notes 42, 165 stock management 294–95 feedback, relevance of 109
Prahalad, C. K. 171, 256, 338 versus cash flow 152–53 and financial crises 151, 154
price-fixing, and competitiveness see also financial strategy financial risk and other people’s
222–23, 239 Progressive Corp. 316–17 money 140–45
Primark 136–37 and income inequality 145
Procter and Gamble 38–39, 72–73, and learning organization 207
89, 233, 260, 273 leverage and debt levels 150–51
production Q micropreneurism 63
Business Process Reengineering off-balance-sheet risk 154
(BPR) programs 308–09 organizational culture see
cash cow and product assessment quality organizational culture
252–55 circles and teamwork 305–06, pre-pack administration 141–42
custom production 298 308 return on equity (ROE), maximizing
direct-selling 298–99 and premium prices 266–67 155
distribution system 239 product quality and customer loyalty sales forecasting 278–79
growth-share matrix and product 265–67 scenario planning 211
portfolio 253–55 product superiority and technological shareholders 140–41, 144, 145
improvement and innovation change 36, 37–38 start-ups 20–21, 41
296–99 products and design 320–23 taxpayer bailouts and too-big-to-fail
lean production 290–93, products and value analysis 323 firms 144–45
307–08 provision and customer service unconsolidated subsidiaries 154
mass production 297–98 322–23 see also complacency avoidance;
new features, promotion of 325 Total Quality Management 56 strategic management

