In order to manage the market competition, rapid changes in technology, accelerating industry clock speed, increasing number of product variants, shrinking product lifecycles, limited supply, and price pressures, technology companies need to put more emphasis on managing product launches...

The Japanese miracle is not a miracle. The outstanding evolution of the Japanese economy after the Second World War owes to both the cult for labor present in the Japanese society and to the influx of knowledge on quality passed on by the two American scientists, Deming ºi Juran in the 1950s....

The European Union Council had and still has in view the profound changes taking place in society: globalization represents for Europe a competitors intensification in all the economical sectors, while the developing and the diversification of the information technologies can lead to a radical...