Lean machine: how BAe used IT innovation to land a success story

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The drastic slump in the defence market in the 1980s left BritishAerospace fighting to survive. The key to its renaissance was betterenterprise resource planning. Janice McGinn reports.

The 1980s saw all industries wake up to a changed world, and BAe was no exception. The high growth and demand of the 1970s defence markets went into sharp, irreversible decline. The current market ...

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