Arnoud De Meyer

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the nature of the trade-offs among manufacturing capabilities is more complex than has been assumed, and they suggest a model which shows how this can be done: to build cumulative and lasting manufacturing capability, management attention and resources should go first toward enhancing quality, then, while the efforts to enhance quality are further expanded, attention should be paid to improve also the dependability of the production system, and finally, while efforts on the previous two are further enhanced, production flexibility (or reaction speed).

TL;DR: A model of a project as a payoff function that depends on the state of the world and the choice of a sequence of actions is developed, which establishes a rigorous language that allows the project manager to judge the adequacy of the available project information at the outset, choose an appropriate combination of strategies, and set a supporting project infrastructure.

TL;DR: It is indicated that different cultures are likely to interpret and respond to the same strategic issue in different ways and these differences may help to explain and predict different responses of European countries to ‘1992’.

TL;DR: The results for the 1986 survey are compared in this paper, showing that the Japanese are clearly ahead in the trade-off between flexibility and cost efficiency, while the European and North Americans are not yet seizing the opportunity to cut costs through rapid production and design changes, and are focusing more on traditional cost reduction programmes and the improvement of quality.

TL;DR: Moenaert et al. as mentioned in this paper examined the interaction between marketing and R&D in 40 technologically innovative Belgian companies to examine the effect of formalization of projects, decentralization, positive interfunctional climate, and role flexibility.