| In the 1920s, marked by the mass mobile streamline production of Ford style, mankind was beginning to transfer from manual production to mass streamline production. With the coming of knowledge economy and information age, mass production is encountering fierce challenge because of its poor ability to meet the changing market's demand. So, in the late 1980s,a lot of newly invented management notions and methods appeared, such as concurrent engineering (CE), lean production (LP), agile manufacturing (AM) and so on. Among these opinions, AM is dominant, and so agile competition (AC) ensued.AC created the virtual corporation (VC), which sets up a new win-win relationship which is not only full of competition but also emphasizes cooperation, through constructing dynamic coalition, and reaches the goal to share technologies, resources, expenses and risks, and meet the market's demand. With the further reform and opening, the domestic enterprises, especially state-owned enterprises are facing serious difficulties. The most important reason is that the management cannot keep up with the globalizing competing market. To study the new management notion and model is practically significant in that they are conducive to solving the focal problems as found in the course of reforming the state-owned enterprises, and hence to narrowing the gap between China and advanced countries. The article is divided into four parts. Part one: Agile competition This part mainly introduces AC's background, meaning and its four factors. AC means a competition style that can offer lower cost, products and services of higher quality in the shortest time at any lot, to meet the market's demand. Its background is that owing to the changing competition market, mass production is shifted out step by step, which offers chances for AC's coming, but its emergence is the direct consequence of the economical competition between Japan and America. Despite its industry and scale, any enterprise that wants to gain the ability of AC must have the following four factors: 1.to meet customers' individual demand and implement the project distribution; 2.to enhance competition ability through cooperation; 3.to establish AC's organization; 4.to give the rein to stuff and information technology. Part two: Typical organization style of AC-the virtual corporation First, the author discusses the relationship between AC and VC in this part. Secondly, we expound the value chain theory based on which VC is created. Thirdly, we explain VC's inner meaning and basic characters: 1.to have stronger adopting capacity. 2.to have excellent core capacity. 3.to be dynamic coalition changing with chances, and have the network organization structure. 4.to congregate the resources on the basis of information network. 5.to be an organization of study style. At last, we probe into VC's dynamic causes behind establishing: 1.Advantegeous to share expensive exploitation and development express, and avoid management risks.2.Shorten the time of " idea-cash", lower products' exploitation cost, quickly keep up with market opportunities. 3.Make service more easy, widen enterprises' scale image in customers' mind, and gain scale benefit.4.Transfer from products distribution to project distribution, raise enterprises' competition ability.5.Share market and customer faith.6.Cure the illness of large enterprises, prevent excessive competition. Part three: VC's main operation styles and its key success factors VC basically has six management styles. We sum up six key success factors through analyzing Dell Computer company and Sichuan Taihe Machine Co.Ltd: 1.to set up " win-win" cooperation concept.2.to establish competition concept to fit quickly changing market demand.3.to faster core competition ability.4.to choose cooperation partners scientifically, construct perfect achievement evaluation system.5.to make full use of tools and methods offered by society.6.to have brilliant leaders. |
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