The American economy has been turned upside down during the past decade in one of the most tumultuous economic revolutions in world history. The result: the United States has put more distance between itself and its commercial rivals than anyone imagined possible. Annual growth in the U.S. economy matches the size of whole countries. The Dow Jones Industrial Average has reached once-unthinkable heights. Three-quarters of the world's top fifty companies are now American. In FutureWealth, a superbly researched book, the authors provide a startling new way of looking at America's success. The reason for our exceptional performance is the breathtaking pace at which U.S. companies today substitute information for all other resources at their disposal. The authors explore major companies that have substituted information throughout their operations. They also show how the results have been dramatic in those companies' expanded bottom lines and rising stock valuations-- and how investors can both learn and profit from the information revolution around us. FutureWealth is a landmark book and a very timely read for investors, managers, and policy makers the world over.

FutureWealth: Investing In The Second Great Wave Of Technology

Business & Money

WHITE, SEAN

McInerney, Francis

Economics

Truman Talley Books

Panasonic is not about any ordinary restructuring. It is about a company of $72 billion in sales, employing 293,000 people around the world, the tenth largest industrial company not in oil or autos, whose thousands of products are so universally used that it may have more customers than any firm in history. Panasonic is so big that it is one of the few companies which has a product in just about every home and business in the developed world, has operations in almost every country in the world, and has a vast scope of markets--making everything from flat panel TVs to car audio and satellite navigation systems, even entire building systems and home interiors. Panasonic's breadth and size combined made reorganizing the company incomparably more difficult than even the task that faced IBM's incoming CEO in 1992. Panasonic delves into how this great eleven-year restructuring (1995-2006) was accomplished without importing an outside CEO like Lou Gerstner. Panasonic was able to reorder a complex and tradition-bound organization in a country that is often thought, mistakenly, to deeply resist radical change, thus demonstrating how Japanese companies continue to adapt to the competitive forces roiling the markets around them.

Panasonic: The Largest Corporate Restructuring in History

Biography & History

Timely and vital, this landmark book offers Americans up-to-the-minute strategies for succeeding against Japanese competitors. Showing how hundreds of American companies are already winning, this book provides a wealth of realistic ways to restructure U.S. businesses to prosper in today's unforgiving global market place. Based on the authors' 15 years of experience in Japan.

Beating Japan: How Hundreds of American Companies Are Beating Japan Now

Management & Leadership

Plume

Examines successful companies that have increased profits while protecting the environment

The Total Quality Corporation: How 10 Major Companies Added Profits Cleaned up Environment1990s

Identifying fundamental weaknesses in the Japanese corporate "miracle," the authors point to the strength of renewed American industries and outlines successful strategies for other companies to follow. 25,000 first printing. National ad/promo. Tour.

Dutton

Challenging conventional wisdom, the authors demonstrate how ten major companies, such as Nissan, Exxon, and Wal-Mart, have actually improved their competitiveness by meeting governmental environmental and product regulations. 25,000 first printing. National ad/promo.

The Total Quality Corporation: How 10 Major Companies Turned Quality and Environmental Challenges to Competitive Advantage in the 1990s

Truman Talley Books/Dutton

Nearly a quarter century ago, Japanese industry went into a tailspin. The Nikkei now trades roughly where it did in November 1984 when the Dow was at 1,200 and at a fifth of its peak at the close of 1989. In what is the greatest stock market collapse in history, Japanese equity markets have been wiped out. Once-great Japanese export powerhouses that led their industries in innovation are today awash in losses and stagger under collapses of market share as innovators from elsewhere pass them by. Many have earnings that have not recovered R&D expenses in decades. Whole families of products that Japan once dominated like video and still cameras, music players, game consoles, and cell phones have dissolved into non-Japanese products like Apple’s iPhone, leaving Japanese producers with nothing to sell in foreign markets and, more of a problem, no one to whom to sell. Japanese suppliers routinely lose to faster-moving competitors whose products may not be as good. Often, Japanese companies discover markets that their better-informed foreign competitors identified years before and have been exploiting profitably for some time. People talk about Japan’s lost generation. Author Francis McInerney has spent 35 years building and selling his own business and advising some of the biggest companies in the world on how to profit the same way he did. In his view, Japan’s lost generation could have easily been avoided with a few simple management changes. Super Genba is about those changes, the ten steps Japanese managers must take to bring Japan back to global leadership. Japanese companies can put these ten steps to work immediately to get to the top in global markets.

Super Genba: Ten Things Japanese Companies Must Do to Gain Global Competitiveness

North River Ventures

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FutureWealth: Investing In The Second Great Wave Of Technology

Panasonic: The Largest Corporate Restructuring in History

Beating Japan: How Hundreds of American Companies Are Beating Japan Now

The Total Quality Corporation: How 10 Major Companies Added Profits Cleaned up Environment1990s

Beating Japan: How Hundreds of American Companies Are Beating Japan Now

The Total Quality Corporation: How 10 Major Companies Turned Quality and Environmental Challenges to Competitive Advantage in the 1990s

Super Genba: Ten Things Japanese Companies Must Do to Gain Global Competitiveness