...T Kippenberger Chronicles research on supply chain management in the Asia Pacific region and distributed to the biggest companies in the area — 43 questionnaires were returned from 5 heavily represented industry segments — chemicals, food, transportation, communications and automotive. Stresses...

...T Kippenberger Looks at business alliances and how the headline makers are already big players, e.g. General Electric and Pratt & Whitney — combining to fight Rolls‐Royce; Mobil and BP in Europe, and so it goes on — inside and outside industry boundaries and round the world. Proposes that many...

.... States Kanter's research for ‘When Giants Learn to Dance’ involved 37 companies from 11 different countries, conducted with over 500 interviews on multiple visits to well‐known large, as well as less prominent smaller, organizations from both manufacturing and service industries. © MCB UP Limited 1997...

...T Kippenberger Discusses the seven basic sources of opportunities to innovate — only one of which is with regard to inventing something new — as discussed in Peter Drucker's ‘Innovation and Entrepreneurship’ (1994). Lists the seven sources as: the unexpected; incongruities; process need; industry...