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The System Approach: A Strategy to Survive and Succeed in the Global Economy

By Dr. K. (Subbu) Subramanian

The System Approach offers a innovative strategy for meeting the needs of industrial organizations throughout the world that have struggled to survive and succeed in today's global economy. Introducing a new methodology--the System Approach--that calls for a fundamental shift at every level, the author takes the reader on a journey that reveals how traditional task-oriented job assignments can be transformed into a system-oriented problem solving proces

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