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Velocity By Dee Jacob, Suzan Bergland And Jeff Cox

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Velocity, the business novel by Dee Jacob, Suzan Bergland and Jeff Cox offers the reader many key theories and technics to which they can apply to their manufacturing facilities in real life. The authors pairs these real life manufacturing techniques with a fictional setting in order to convey their ideologies to the reader. The book provides the backgrounds for each of the characters and business involved and then slows to the technical practices of the manufacturing ideologies in the latter chapters. Paradigm shifts play a major role as new ideas are presented throughout the book.

The main character throughout the duration of this book is Amy Cicolara, a middle aged widow who works as a sales manager at Hi-T. Hi-t is a company that is known for producing a variety of composite materials, usually used on bigger projects such as ships and planes. The book starts off showing the company in a state of turmoil. A rumor has surfaced that the company is going to be sold. Once Amy hears of this rumor she begins to investigate it. She goes to her president, B. Don, who sadly confirms the rumor. He advises her to update her resume because once the company is sold, anything could happen. Amy weighs this decision but decides to stick with the company rather then disrupt her family life.

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Amy is called to the headquarters of Winner Corporation where she learns that she will be named the next president of Hi-T. She inherits the company in a state of major turmoil. One particular problem is the heavy cost cutting that has occurred at the company before she was promoted. Although this cost cutting created some short-term improvements, it did not solve their problems. If fact their problems came back and even worse this time. There are a number of unsatisfied customers. One in particular is the NAVY. The admiral of the NAVY has recently called Winner Corporations to express his

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