[email protected] wrote:
> That's also about when ideas such as JustInTime supply chain
> management started coming in vogue, along with an increase in the
> use of contingency workers, several other changes along the same
> lines that have to do more with management than anything else.
Ah, yes. Was that the period when the doctrine emerged, that proper
"managers" should be able to manage *anything*? That managers were in
some way disjoint from the substance and underlying mechanisms of the
thing managed? That 30 years experience in an industry (or any
endeavor) was irrelevant -- even orthogonal -- to management
principles and was justifiably upstaged by an MBA?
I vaguely recall noticing (with scorn) that development but I was
living without electricity in the late 70s and busy paying off the
price (risibly tiny but significant for an artist) of my large, newly
acquired studio. So I can't peg the rise of that doctrine very
closely.
Interestingly, it was roughly a decade later (1986) that the MIT
Commission on Industrial Productivity was struck [1] and 1989 when
their report, Made in America -- Regaining the Productive Edge,
appeared. Yet the referenced graph suggests that, at least from a
financial point of view, some event or mechanism had already brought
the problem well in hand before the stellar academic minds began their
study. Huh.
- Mike
[1] ...to address a decline in industrial performance perceived to be
so serious as to threaten the nation's economic future.
-- Preface to the book, 1989
--
Michael Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada .~.
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