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Product costs comprise 60% to 80% of a typical manufacturer's total cost structure. And if that isn't daunting enough, the global economy continues to roil; raw material, labor and transportation ...

In April 2007, Research in Motion (RIM) was flying high. The BlackBerry creator was coming off its best year ever, with record revenues, record earnings per share, and record shipments. And there was ...

Business leaders face ever-increasing levels of complexity, driven by an explosion of product variations, customer requirements, global supply chains, changing regulations, new technology, matrixed ...