Title: The seamless enterprise : making cross functional management work /
Authors: Dimancescu, Dan.
Publisher: HarperBusiness,
Year: 1992
Subjects: Organizational effectiveness.; Industrial management
Abstract: "How would you like to have a consultant interrogate you in detail about your company's product, quality standards, and shipping methods, force you to admit exactly how you and your staff had dropped the ball, and ask you point-blank what you were going to do about it--while every single one of your employees watched and listened? According to Dan Dimancescu, this kind of meeting is not only a good idea--it's just one ripple of a huge wave of change in management that is absolutely vital to the future of American business." "Dimancescu, who has been a consultant to such companies as AT&T, Boeing, Digital, HP, NASA, and Xerox, has witnessed scenes like the one above over and over in Japan. Those employees and the boss who was being put on the hot seat were involved in a concept still very foreign to American business: cross functional management.^
Contents: Pt. I. Overview. 1. A New Agenda. 2. Cross Functions. 3. The Innovators. 4. Origins -- Pt. II. Nuts & Bolts. 5. The New Rules. 6. The TQM Elements. 7. Knowledge Teams. 8. Four-Fields Mapping. 9. Needs and Solutions (QFD) -- Pt. III. Breaking Silos. 10. The Pacesetter. 11. Concurrent Engineering. 12. Skunk Works -- Pt. IV. Electronic Tools. 13. The Challenge. 14. Collaboratories. 15. The Control Panel -- Pt. V. Change. 16. The First Steps -- Appendix A. Kozo Koura -- Appendix B. W. Edwards Deming -- Appendix C. Frederick Winslow Taylor -- Appendix D. IDA Report -- Appendix E. CALS.