How to succeed in business

Article Abstract:

The US electronics industry can gain many benefits from instituting change to regain lost market share. Statistics reveal that the US lost approximately 13 percent market share in aerospace and 14 percent in telecommunications equipment between 1979 and 1989. In addition, the US computer industry lost 28 percent and semiconductors lost 23 percent. New competitive models are needed to guide product development, business structure and the influence of government. Firms that are succeeding in the US and in Japan are using new paradigms for product development. The methods stress market-centered, rapid-cycled product development. US firms especially need to give up the idea that technology alone will ensure competitiveness. Instead, firms need to focus on business innovation that stresses technology, implementation and market need.

Column, Market share, Electronics industry, Product development, Strategic Planning, Competition, Marketing Strategy, Critique

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This company doesn't brake for (sacred) cows

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Mitel Corp has developed a program aimed at eliminating the things that hinder the efficient performance of employees. Stephen Quesnelle, head of Mitel's quality programs, organized workshops in which employees from the R&D department spent three days identifying what he termed sacred cows and devising plans to solve the problems. The initiative paid off as Mitel's R&D division started implementing the changes identified during the workshops. It has also spread beyond R&D to other departments of the company.

Other Electrical Equipment and Component Manufacturing, Management-Productivity, Electronic Parts NEC, Management, Electronic components, Consumer electronics industry, Organizational effectiveness, Mitel Corp., MLT

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Carlyle Group's Taiwan gambit

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The bid of Carlyle Group L.P. to acquire Advanced Semiconductor Engineering Co. is presented. The strategies applied by Carlyle Group for acquisition are also discussed.

Investment Banking and Securities Dealing, Acquisitions & mergers, Investment Banking, Security brokers and dealers, United States, Taiwan, Mergers, acquisitions and divestments, Investment banks, Company acquisition/merger, Electronic components industry, Carlyle Group L.P., Advanced Semiconductor Engineering Inc.

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