Relevance Regained

Building on his pathbreaking, award-winning bestseller, Relevance Lost, H. Thomas Johnson presents a devastating critique of the top-down hierarchical accounting systems that have dominated American corporations since the 1950s. Johnson shows exactly how "managing by remote control" through results-oriented accounting information has obscured and obstructed the real business objective: to reduce process variation and lead times for the purpose of obtaining and keeping satisfied customers. The failure of most American businesses to be competitive and profitable in recent years, he contends, is their reliance on management accounting information to control people's actions and productivity. Cost-focused imperatives from on high must be replaced, Johnson asserts, with information systems that link actions with imperatives of global competition. Past practices of manipulating processes to achieve accounting cost targets dictated by "top-down" command and control information must he replaced by "bottom-up" empowerment. Self-managing work teams, according to Johnson, must own problem-solving information to reduce variation, delays, and excess in processes. Johnson prescribes the necessary changes in management principles that must replace the outdated style associated with the industrial revolution. Responsiveness to customers--not accounting costs--and flexibility--reducing lead times and removing constraints--are necessary for sustained competitive excellence and long-term profitability. Johnson discusses the radical overhauls of companies, such as General Electric's work-outs/"best practices" program, Eastman Kodak's process control costing, and Harley-Davidson's work simplification programs, and shows how these strong commitments to new strategies maximize a company's most important assets: people and time. To be globally competitive, he claims, a company's work must be directed toward selling to customers, not just selling products. Transaction- or product-oriented companies, according to Johnson, ultimately will lose out to responsive, customer-oriented ones.

Business & Money

Johnson, H.Thomas

Management & Leadership

Free Press

9784906224616 Introduction to Quality Control 
Introduction to Quality Control is highly recommended reading for people of all levels already working in quality control as well as those about to enter the field. It may be the best introduction to this vitally important topic you will ever find.

Profit Beyond Measure: Extraordinary Results through Attention to Work and People

Broms, Anders

Industries

Building on his pathbreaking, award-winning bestseller, Relevance Lost, H. Thomas Johnson presents a devastating critique of the top-down hierarchical accounting systems that have dominated American corporations since the 1950s. In Relevance Regained, Johnson shows exactly how "managing by remote control" through results-oriented accounting information has obstructed the real business objective: to reduce process variation and lead times for the purpose of obtaining and keeping satisfied customers. The failure of most American businesses to be competitive and profitable, he contends, is their reliance on management accounting information to control people's actions and productivity. Cost-focused imperatives from on high must be replaced, Johnson asserts, with information systems that link actions with imperatives of global competition. Self-managing work teams, according to Johnson, must own problem-solving information to reduce variation, delays, and excess in processes. Johnson prescribes the necessary changes in management principles that must replace the outdated style associated with the industrial revolution. Responsiveness to customers—not accounting costs—and flexibility—reducing lead times and removing constraints—are necessary for sustained competitive excellence and long-term profitability. Johnson discusses the radical overhauls of companies, such as General Electric's work-outs/"best practices" program and Harley-Davidson's work simplification programs, and shows how these strong commitments to new strategies maximize a company's most important assets: people and time. To be globally competitive, he claims, a company's work must be directed toward selling to customers, not just selling products.

Traces the history of the role of management accounting in business and argues that present management accounting systems have become obsolescent

Relevance Lost: The Rise and Fall of Management Accounting

Kaplan, Robert S.

Economics

Harvard Business School Pr

Book by Hall, Robert W., Johnson, H. Thomas, Turney, Peter B. B.

Measuring Up: Charting Pathways to Manufacturing Excellence (IRWIN/APICS SERIES IN PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT)

Hall, Robert W.

Turney, Peter B. B.

Irwin Professional_Pub

This text draws on the application of new knowledge to business, made possible by observing companies which emulate the way natural systems work, such as Toyota and Scania. It provides useful lessons for top executives and senior managers working in many different areas, including: marketing, design, production, logistics, human relations, finance and information technology. The book's message could also be useful for executives and managers in non-business organizations, in government and in education and should interest anyone involved in organizational learning.

Profit Before Measure : Extraordinary Results Through Attention to Process and People

Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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Relevance Regained

Profit Beyond Measure: Extraordinary Results through Attention to Work and People

Relevance Regained

Relevance Lost: The Rise and Fall of Management Accounting

Measuring Up: Charting Pathways to Manufacturing Excellence (IRWIN/APICS SERIES IN PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT)

Profit Before Measure : Extraordinary Results Through Attention to Process and People