The Great Nuclear Fizzle At Babcock & Wilcox
Case Study In Manufacturing Strategy
Wickham Skinner first used this example in his 1978 book, "Manufacturing in the
Corporate Strategy". He traced B&W's troubles to a single root cause:
management had failed to identify the "Key Manufacturing Task".
Everything else emanated from this simple omission.
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