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Tuesday, August 17, 2004

Getting beyond the next big thing via News.com

With no technology rebound in sight,high-tech vendors must look to the business practices of their former admirers in slower-growth industries such as retailing and banking. There they will find lessons about increasing productivity and using the improvement strategically to expand their market share and improve their financial performance.
The challenge goes beyond simple cost cutting; it's about changing the ratio of inputs to outputs--the value of what companies put into a production process compared with what they get out.High-tech companies have always focused on product innovation, and the economics of producing and selling technology in a high-demand environment enabled them to increase the value of their output for a given amount of labor, capital, and purchased goods and services. Now they must put a similar effort into delivering the same or greater output with fewer inputs and developing innovative operational processes, not just products and services.A handful of high-tech vendors, grasping this new reality, have developed extremely productive business processes or taken advantage of lower-factor costs (and sometimes both) to create and then widen their advantage over the competition. Read on.. An excellent article.

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