TY - BOOK AU - Nayak,P.Ranganath AU - Ketteringham,John M. TI - Breakthroughs! SN - 0892562943 : AV - HF5415.153 .N38 1986 U1 - 306/.42 19 PY - 1986/// CY - New York PB - Rawson Associates KW - New products KW - Inventions KW - Creative ability in business KW - Betriebsergebnis KW - swd KW - Produktinnovation KW - Unternehmenserfolg KW - Fallstudiensammlung N1 - Includes index; Innovators, inventors, and facilitators -- Stalking the breakthrough: we begin our journeys -- JVC and the VCR miracle: "you should be very polite and gentle" -- 3M's little yellow note pads: "never mind. I'll do it myself." -- ChemLawn: Dick Duke's lonely battle -- Tagamet: repairing ulcers without surgery -- Walkman: from "dumb product" to the headphone culture -- "Problems! we've got to have problems!" -- The microwave oven: " 'this black magic!" -- Toyota: the supermarket for cars -- A teacher of competitive response -- Nautilus: the unfinished breakthrough -- Dreams deferred -- Federal Express: the knights on the last white horse -- The message for managers N2 - "How the vision and drive of innovators in sixteen companies created commercial breakthroughs that swept the world." "Based on an international study of innovation by Arthur D. Little, Inc." UR - http://www.archive.org/details/breakthroughs00naya UR - http://www.openlibrary.org/books/OL2550970M ER -