Book Reviews

This issue's review looks at a recent book written by Milton D. Rosenau, Jr., a two-time contributor to this journal. The review is written by Randy Englund, R&D project development manager for Hewlett-Packard in Cupertino, California. Previously, he served as a computer systems program manager.
Englund's favorable review mentions a number of points that will be of interest to JPIM's readers:

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  the book emphasizes speed in development
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  it stresses a team-based, phased development approach
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  it establishes the need for clear specifications
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  useful summaries and implementation guidelines are included throughout the text
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  the issues treated are of major importance to new product managers

     

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The three books we review this month deal with important practical aspects of the new product development process. John Moran's review of a book by Robert Haavind emphasizes the importance of quality and provides many pointers on how this can be enhanced. Although the book is primarily of value for manufacturing firms, it also deals with quality for services, emphasizing, for example, the importance of including the customer in the firm's development activity. Vic Prushan reviews a book by Michael Spendolini on benchmarking, a practice that is important to the improvement of quality. This practice is applicable to any firm developing any new good or service. Finally, John Cushman reviews a book by Donald Carter and Barbara Baker on concurrent engineering, finding the book to be of greatest interest to technical people working in the development of technology-based products.     

Book Reviews

This issue provides reviews of four books and brief notes for two others. The first book that is reviewed covers services comprehensively. It traces the growth from the industrial era and attempts to project future trends. The second review is of a book written by a practitioner with the company that is frequently judged to be the new product development "gold standard." Although the book can be somewhat unfocused at times, six key lessons are enunciated. The third book covered here is about compressing time-to-market for engineered or technology-based products. Our reviewer suggests that it is most useful for experienced practitioners in larger companies. The last book is about teams. The reviewer finds it overly long but useful in its treatment of teaming among organizations.     

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Book reviewed in this article
Computers in the Human Context
The Technical Fix: Education, Computers and Industry
Office Automation: The Labour Process and Women's Work in Britain
Managerial Strategy for New Technology
Telecommunications Policy and Management     

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Technical Insights, Inc. Annual report on research and development… 1982: the year that was… 1983: the year to come
Project Management
Industrial R&D Management—the modern issues
Trends in Information Transfer
Information Society, For Richer, For Poorer
Cybernetics and Systems Research     

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Globalization, Technology and Competition: The Fusion of Computers and Telecommunications in the 1990s
Globalization, Technology and Competition: The Fusion of Computers and Telecommuni- cations in the 1990s
High-Tech for Industrial Development: Lessons from the Brazilian Experience in Electronics and Automation
Science and Technology Management Bibliography
Intelligent Enterprise: A Knowledge and Service Based Paradigm for Industry     

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Books reviewed: Giuseppe Fajertag and Philippe Pochet, (eds.) Social Pacts in Europe: New Dynamics Peter Fairbrother, Trade Unions at the Crossroads Marino Regini, Jim Kitay and Martin Baethge, (eds.) From Tellers to Sellers: Changing Employment Relations in Banks Tony Royle, Working for McDonald’s in Europe: The Unequal Struggle? Guglielmo Meardi, Trade Union Activists, East and West: Comparisons in Multinational Companies Ruth Milkman, (ed.) Organizing Immigrants: The Challenge for Unions in Contemporary California Toshiaki Tachibanaki and Tomohiko Noda, The Economic Effects of Trade Unions in Japan Paul Gregg and Jonathan Wadsworth, (eds.) The State of Working Britain Mike Ironside and Roger Seifert, Now that your humble reviewer has got that off his chest, let us turn to what the Facing up to Thatcherism: The History of NALGO 1979–93 Michael Terry, (ed.) Redefining Public Sector Unionism: UNISON and the Future of Trade Unions K. D. Ewing, (ed.) Human Rights at Work Peter J. Frost, Arie Y. Lewin and Richard L. Daft, (eds.) Talking about Organization Science: Debates and Dialogue from Crossroads Toby L. Parcel and Daniel B. Cornfield, (eds.) Work and Family: Research Informing Policy Kate Purcell, (ed.) Changing Boundaries in Employment     

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Books reviewed:
Friedman, Gerald State Making and Labor Movements: France and the United States, 1876–1914
Abernathy, Frederick, Dunlop, John, Hammond, Janice and Weil, David A Stitch in Time: Lean Retailing and the Transformation of Manufacturing — Lessons from the Apparel and Textile Industries
Waterman, Peter Globalization, Social Movements and the New Internationalisms
Jackson, Paul and Van der Wielen, Jos (eds) Teleworking: International Perspective, from Telecommuting to the Virtual Organisation
Ferber, Marianne (ed.) Women in the Labour Market
Dench, S. and O'Regan, S. Helping Parents to Work: A Study for Kent TEC
Browne, Kingsley Divided Labours: An Evolutionary View of Women at Work
Barnes, Helen, Thornton, Patricia and Maynard, Sue Disabled People and Employment: A Review of Research and Development Work
Zey, Mary Rational Choice Theory and Organizational Theory: A Critique
Maclagan, Patrick Management and Morality
Parker, Martin Ethics and Organizations     

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Book reviewed in this article:
TUC: The Growrh of a Pressure Group 1868–1976, by Ross M. Martin.
The Decline of the British Motor Industry, by Peter J. S. Dunnett.
Haward Business Review of Human Relarions
Not For Bread Alone: An Appreciation of Job Enrichment, by Lynda King Taylor
Whatever Happened to Shell's New Philosophy of Management, by F. H. M. Blackler and C. A. Brown
Managerial Rolcs in Industrial Relations: Towardc a Definitive Survey of Research and Fornulation of Modek, edited by Michael Paole and Roger Mansfield
Evaluaring Management Education by Robin M. Hogarth.
Professionals and Management, by Russell D. Lansbury
Advances in Manugernent Education, edited by John Beck and Charles Cox
Work Creation International Experiences, edited by M. P. Jackson and V. J. B. Hanby
Employment Outlook and Insight, edited by David H. Freedman
Masters, Unionsand Men: Work Controlin Building and the Rise of Labour 183&1914, by Richard Price
Occupation and Pay in Great Britain 190679, by Guy Routh
The Future of Pay Bargaining, edited by F. T. Blackaby
White-Collar Proletariat: The Industrial Behaviour of British Civil Servanu, by Michael P. Kelly     

Book Reviews

Management of industrial R&D: a viewpoint from practice L. A. Van Gusteren. Reviewed by Albert Richards
Technological collaboration: the dynamics of cooperation in industrialinnovation R. Coombs, A. Richards, P. Saviotti and V. Walsh (eds.). Reviewed byChris Freeman
Global strategies: insights from the world's leading thinkers Preface by Percy Barnevik and afterword by Rosabeth Moss Kanter.Reviewed by Gerard P. Hodgkinson
Market structure, corporate performance and innovative activity Paul Geroski. Reviewed by Jonathan Simms     

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Books reviewed in this issue:

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  New Product Launch: 10 Proven Strategies

       
  
  

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Books reviewed in this issue:

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  Getting It Right the First Time: How Innovative Companies Anticipate Demand

       
  
  

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Book Reviewed:
Knut Holt, Market Oriented Product Innovation
Barrie G. Dale, Managing Quality
Henry Chesborough, Open Innovation