This consultant to enlightened behavior for individuals in positions of authority is predicated at the teachings of a number of nice chinese language Zen masters. Drawing on inner most documents, letters, and long-lost records of the track dynasty (tenth to 13th centuries), Zen classes involves brief excerpts written in language that's available to the reader with none heritage in japanese philosophy. This booklet serves as a consultant to spotting the features of a real Zen instructor; it additionally serves as a research of the nature and behavior worthwhile for the mastery of any place of energy and authority—whether non secular, social, political, or organizational.
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42 The Fast Path to Corporate Growth In the successful companies I studied, innovation teams used their prototypes to aggressively focus on specific user needs and desires but then regrouped to design a robust architecture and all of its component parts—be it for hardware, software, food, or drugs. A product line for a new or existing market application rarely succeeds on the back of a single product or service. A company that approaches each product or service as a one-off is unlikely to make the profits it deserves or move its various offerings to market in a timely manner.
It is also at this point that executives make the critical decisions with respect to who should continue to manage the new product line or service and where the new business should reside and report within the corporation. CHAPTER TWO A Framework for Action 45 Practical Criteria for Launching New Projects Most companies have more opportunities than resources. The business executives with whom I worked in developing this book suggested the following criteria for new market applications: — Projects should leverage company technology—either product or process.
In spring 2001, within only a year of the first zSeries introduction, the z900 was given the “best hardware platform” award at Linux World. Who would have guessed in 1995 that a mainframe would walk away with a major open systems prize? zSeries has since been renamed System z, and it has been an incredible success. By 2004, it achieved 9,000 MIPS with a 32 co-processor configuration in the zSeries 990. Reflecting a “better, best” product strategy, IBM also introduced at the same time the zSeries 890, a 1,360 MIPS four-processor machine for less computing-intensive applications.