Competitive Advantage1 book · 2 highlights
Cows-Not-People Site Selection
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Evidence
Plain Talk
Iverson, Ken · 2 highlights
“• We are in a labor-intensive and technology-intensive intensive business, yet we've built most of our manufacturing facilities in areas that have more cows than people.”
“Our strategy was what executives now call "focusing on our core competencies," although that's not what we called it. We just placed the few chips we had left on the businesses nesses that were turning a buck.”
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