Japan's Software Factories

A Challenge to U.S. Management

Michael A. Cusumano (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

528 Seiten

1991
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-506216-8 (ISBN)

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Analyzes a number of Japanese computer manufacturers and their efforts to compete successfully with US software companies. The text explores the concept of Japanese "software factories", in which large numbers of people are engaged in developing computer software in co-operative ways.

Though Japan has successfully competed with US computer makers in manufacturing and marketing hardware, it has been less successful in developing software that competes with US software companies. This book analyses how a number of Japanese firms, in an effort to catch up, have created what are called `software factories' in which large numbers of people are engaged in developing software in co-operative ways.

Introduction
Part I: The Software Challenge
1: Product-Process Strategy and Japan's Software Industry
2: The Technology: Recurring Problems and Integrated Solutions
Part II: The Factory Approach
3: System Development Corporation: A U.S. Factory Experiment
4: Hitachi: Organizing for Process and Quality Control
5: Toshiba: Linking Productivity and Reusability
6: NEC: A Multiproduct, Multiprocess Factory Network
7: Fujitsu: Process Control to Automated Customization
8: Standardization and Cooperative R&D
Conclusion
9: Software Development: From Craft to Factory Practice
Appendixes
A. Survey of Manager Emphases: The Process Spectrum
B. Japanese and U.S. Project Performance
C. Market Shares and Customer Satisfaction in Japan
Notes
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	16.5.1991
Zusatzinfo	line drawings, tables
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	241 x 156 mm
Gewicht	916 g
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Wirtschaftsinformatik
ISBN-10	0-19-506216-7 / 0195062167
ISBN-13	978-0-19-506216-8 / 9780195062168
Zustand	Neuware