Big medical electronics firm to improve its outsourcing policy and new ways in which it has to work with its suppliers. Firm starts in order to get the assembly and not components. This goal is to develop, while the supplier takes over most of the engineering design, and creation of database products and services. Many problems arise, but the product goes on the market and successfully. In 1999, EFMD Award. "Hide
by Thomas E. Vollmann, Denise Julien, Carlos Cordon Source: IMD 9 pages. Publication Date: January 1, 1998. Prod. #: IMD033-PDF-ENG
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