CHAPTER ONE: COST MANAGEMENT -- AN OVERVIEW

Note also that none of the ten on this list are clear cost leaders. These firms succeed by providing new and attractive products, such as Apple’s iPad. So they are arguably all differentiators as well. To further the analysis, Bloomberg ranks countries on innovation, and the 2014 rankings, in order, are: 1. South Korea, 2. Japan, 3. Germany, 4. ................
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