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Pt. 1. The New Challenge To Industrial Competence: Managing Our Way To Economic Decline / Robert H. Hayes And William J. Abernathy; Managing As If Tomorrow Mattered / Robert H. Hayes And David A. Garvin; Survival Strategies In A Hostile Environment / William K. Hall; The New Industrial Competition / William J. Abernathy, Kim B. Clark, And Alan M. Kantrow -- Pt. 2. Defining A Strategic Role For Production: Manufacturing: Missing Link In Corporate Strategy / Wickham Skinner; Limits Of The Learning Curve / William J. Abernathy And Kenneth Wayne; Link Manufacturing Process And Product Life Cycles / Robert H. Hayes And Steven C. Wheelwright; The Dynamics Of Process-product Life Cycles / Robert H. Hayes And Steven C. Wheelwright; Operations Versus Strategy: Trading Tomorrow For Today / Robert L. Banks And Steven C. Wheelwright --^ Manufacturing As A Competive Weapon: The Focused Factory / Wickham Skinner; How Should You Organize Manufacturing? / Robert H. Hayes And Roger W. Schmenner; Can Marketing And Manufacturing Coexist? / Benson P. Shapiro; Why Japanese Factories Work / Robert H. Hayes; The Incline Of Quality / Frank S. Leonard And W. Earl Sasser, Jr. -- Pt. 4. Integrationg The Production System: The Concept Of A Production System / Philip M. Thurston; Logistics Essential To Strategy / James L. Heskett; Integrating Critical Elements Of Production Planning / John E. Bishop; Production Planning And Control Integrated / William K. Holstein; Fit Production Systems To The Task / Jeffrey G. Miller; Do's And Don'ts Of Computerized Manufacturing / Donald Gerwin --^ Pt. 5. The Factors Of Production (resources, Capacity, And Capital): Behind The Growth In Materials Requirements Planning / Jeffrey G. Miller And Linda G. Sprague; Materials Managers: Who Needs Them? / Jeffrey G. Miller And Peter Gilmour; Managing Manufacturing Lead Times / Ernest L. Huge; Look Beyond The Obvious In Plant Location / Roger W. Schmenner; Capacity Strategies For The 1980s / Rob