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To: Neocon who wrote (504)	10/23/1999 2:35:00 PM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3246

Neo, I would like to add another person from the management field. Alfred Sloan. Sloan was the first to recognize that the basis for competition had to change from an ability to produce, to an ability to manage growth and diversity. He not only used public financing to generate the necessary capital to sustain growth, but also capitalized on the emerging biological model to provide a structural vehicle for control that made it possible to manage growth and diversity. The biological model in its simplest form, are divided into two parts. A corporate office and operating unit. The corporate office is the "brain of the organization". The operating unit, is the "body", which takes direction from the corporate office. Sloan's is the model that, with small variations, constitutes the foundation of the MBA programs being taught in all prominent schools of management, including Harvard, Wharton, Stanford and MIT. Henry Ford's refusal to appreciate the implications of his own success, (that others would copy) and his unwillingness to play the new game ("They can have any color as long as it is black") gave Alfred Sloan of GM the opportunity to dominate the automotive industry. Sloan's concept of product-based divisional structure turned out to be a more effective design for managing growth and diversity. This "new game" learned and played by corporate America, became the benchmark for the rest of the world to copy. This divisional structure dominated industries the world over until it was challenged by Japan's "lean production system" who's architect was Taiichi Ohno, former Toyota Motors Vice president. Ohno, was influenced by Dr. Deming. sloan.org Best, Michael