International competition, the rapid pace of technological development, the escalating cost of research and development, truncated shelf life, the ability through information technology to evaluate the cost of poor quality, abbreviated product development cycles, all combine to create an...

The past decade has seen a plethora of approaches on how to respond to the changing times. All are meaningful, but useless unless alignment is an underlying theme. What is the essence of alignment? What is it that organizations do to create alignment? Examines the history of organizations with a...