Leading the Way to Competitive Excellence: The Harris Mountaintop Case Study

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Summary: a real-life version of The Goal
Review: This book is a very detailed account of how Harris Semiconductor's Mountaintop plant turned itself around. The book makes numerous references to Goldratt's book "The Goal" and is itself a sort of real-life version of that book. The first three or four chapters detail the history of the plant, having originally been an RCA plant, then bought by GE only to be bought by Harris. During this time, there was much turmoil and low morale. The rest of the book is a detailed account of how things were turned around. Each improvement is detailed in its own chapter.

Be warned, however, that the book deals with a semiconductor manufacturing plant. For those unfamiliar with this subject, the book could be either an interesting introduction to the manufacture of semiconductors or a bit obtuse.

Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed the book. I used to work at a different Harris location and therefore many of the themes ring true. I recommend that interested people check out ganesha.org where more detailed info is available.