Widely recognized as one of the best run high-tech companies in the world, TRW has helped shape the major industries of today: automotive, aerospace, and information technology. In this revealing account of the firm's pioneering role in long-range planning, large-scale project management, systems engineering, organizational development, and progressive human relations policies, TRW emerges as a resourceful and well-positioned player in the American industrial landscape. The history of TRW's rapid growth, broad diversification, and subsequent restructuring around core businesses provides valuable insights into the evolution of the strategy, structure, and management in the modern corporate era.
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Davis Dyer is a director and co-founder of The Winthrop Group and the coauthor of Labors of a Modern Hercules (HBS Press).
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Front Cover | Front Flap | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Flap | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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IN ITS 1996 ANNUAL REPORT, TRW ATTEMPTED TO DISTILL ITS ESSENCE INTO TWO SENTENCES, as a global manufacturing and service company strategically focused on supplying advanced technology products and services to the automotive and space and defense markets. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
commercial electronics businesses, aircraft engine valves, module descent engine, commercial electronic equipment, automotive safety products, ablative nose cone, aerospace recession, occupant restraint systems, unpaginated reprint, automotive engine valves, aircraft valves, aftermarket operations, electrical resistance welding, annual planning conference, aircraft engine industries, valve manufacture, organizational announcement, biology instrument, replacement business, board minutes, associated contractors, poppet valves, turbine buckets, consumer credit reporting, missile business Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Air Force, Steel Products, United States, Thompson Products, Cleveland Cap Screw, World War, Space Park, Hughes Aircraft, Fred Crawford, Dave Wright, Systems Group, Service Division, Equipment Group, General Motors, Department of Defense, Los Angeles, New York, Automotive Worldwide, Electric Welding Products, Great Depression, North America, Teapot Committee, Rube Mettler, Horace Shepard, Korean War New!
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Front Cover | Front Flap | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Flap | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
IN ITS 1996 ANNUAL REPORT, TRW ATTEMPTED TO DISTILL ITS ESSENCE INTO TWO SENTENCES, as a global manufacturing and service company strategically focused on supplying advanced technology products and services to the automotive and space and defense markets. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
commercial electronics businesses, aircraft engine valves, module descent engine, commercial electronic equipment, automotive safety products, ablative nose cone, aerospace recession, occupant restraint systems, unpaginated reprint, automotive engine valves, aircraft valves, aftermarket operations, electrical resistance welding, annual planning conference, aircraft engine industries, valve manufacture, organizational announcement, biology instrument, replacement business, board minutes, associated contractors, poppet valves, turbine buckets, consumer credit reporting, missile business Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Air Force, Steel Products, United States, Thompson Products, Cleveland Cap Screw, World War, Space Park, Hughes Aircraft, Fred Crawford, Dave Wright, Systems Group, Service Division, Equipment Group, General Motors, Department of Defense, Los Angeles, New York, Automotive Worldwide, Electric Welding Products, Great Depression, North America, Teapot Committee, Rube Mettler, Horace Shepard, Korean War New!
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- Climb to Greatness: The American Aircraft Industry, 1920-1960 by John B. Rae on 7 pages
- The Business of Science: Winning and Losing in the High-Tech Age by Simon Ramo on 6 pages
- Historical Statistics of the United States: From Colonial Times to 1970 by U S Deparmtent Of Co on 6 pages
- The American Automobile Industry by John Rae on 5 pages
- Labors of a Modern Hercules: The Evolution of a Chemical Company by Davis Dyer in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Flap
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