Publisher's Synopsis
Examines the industrial revolution that is occuring in the businesss world and how new business strategies will determine the economic fate of nations in the next century. This book describes the industrial revolution beginning to transform markets and corporations and identifies the driving forces behind the transformation - fast new information technologies, increased emphasis on quality, accelerated product development cycles, changing management practices, including new alignments between management and labour, and new links between company, supplier and consumer, and between industry and government.