Instead the ability to be more efficient at sensing and responding to demand is where the future of Production Managers will be able to make their greatest contribution. According to AMR Research (2004) the concept of the demand-driven supply network (what this research firm calls DDSN) exemplifies the role of the Production Manager as the critical point in making supply chains as competitive as possible.
Production Manager as Change Agent
The concept of line-of-business owners, of which Production Managers will increasingly become in the next twenty years, also must become very adept at infusing ownership into their organizations. In fact Production Managers must find approaches that infuse ownership in entire processes for their organizations. This concept of ownership throughout the entire process is well highlighted in the many research efforts of Alstyne, Brynjolfsson and Madnick from MIT who in several research papers and results report the importance of having ownership. In their study of the correlation of ownership with business process change success, Alstyne, Brynjolfsson and Madnick (1997) comment that "The very act of decentralizing decision-making - asking workers for their values and then taking them seriously - can have...
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