... foreign companies. Few firms can afford to depend on their home country markets for future growth and prosperity. Even those small firms that sell predominantly from a little corner in their home country will soon find themselves competing against overseas firms. Though Singapore appears to be a little...

... of how the company used the cycle of success and the results of their efforts are provided. © MCB UP Limited 2002 Agile production Benchmarking Kaizen Networking Small firms Small companies are feeling intense pressure to improve their performance in order to become more agile...

... improvements is needed for objective assessment of change processes. © MCB UP Limited 2001 Benchmarking Small firms Quality Monitoring Implementation Australia Organisations undertake change to improve internal process or are impelled by market forces (exemplified by customers...

...Patrick McNamee; Kathleen Greenan; Brendan McFerran The economic contribution that small firms make is being increasingly recognised. Consequently robust strategic benchmarks for small firms must be extremely valuable not just for the firms themselves but also for the wider economic community...