Book Reviews

Brelin, Harvey K.; Davenport, Kimberly S.; Jennings Lyell P.; and Murphy, Paul F. 1995, Focused Quality: Managing for Results , John Wiley and Sons, New York, 193 pp., $18.95—reviewed by Laura L. CookCusumano, Michael A. and Selby, Richard W. 1995, Microsoft Secrets: How the World's Most Powerful Software Company Creates Technology, Shapes Markets, and Manages People , The Free Press, New York, 512 pp., $30.00—reviewed by Fred PhillipsMonden, Yasuhiro 1995, Cost Reduction Systems: Target Costing and Kaizen Costing , Productivity Press, Portland, Oregon, 373 pp., $50.00—reviewed by Gary P. SchneiderLapin, Lawrence L. and Whisler, William D. 1996, Cases in Management Science , Duxbury Press, Belmont, California, 322 pp., $21.00—reviewed by Prem SwaroopKirkwood, Craig W. 1997, Strategic Decision Making: Multiobjective Decision Analysis with Spreadsheets , Duxbury Press, Belmont, California, 345 pp., $36.00—reviewed by Jeffery L. Guyse and L. Robin KellerSchonberger, Richard J. 1996, World Class Manufacturing: The Next Decade , Free Press, New York, 275 pp., $30.00—reviewed by Ephrem EyobSalton, Gary J. 1996, Organizational Engineering: A New Method of Creating High Performance Human Structures , Professional Communications, Inc., Ann Arbor, Michigan, 277 pp., $34.95—reviewed by Robert C. SoltysikTufte, Edward R. 1997, Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative , Graphics Press, Box 430, Cheshire, Connecticut, 156 pp., $45.00—reviewed by Mary HaightBertsekas, Dimitri 1995, Nonlinear Programming , Athena Scientific, Belmont, Massachusetts, 646 pp., $69.00—reviewed by Hanif D. SheraliJohansson, Henry J.; McHugh, Patrick; Pendlebury, A. John; and Wheeler, William A., III 1994, Business Process Reengineering: Breakpoint Strategies for Market Dominance , John Wiley and Sons, Chichester, UK, 241 pp., $17.95—reviewed by Chan Meng KhoongBlanning, Robert W. and King, David R., eds. 1996, Organizational Intelligence: AI in Organizational Design, Modeling, and Control , IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, California, 237 pp., $42.00—reviewed by Ravindra KroviMarshall, Edward M. 1995, Transforming the Way We Work: The Power of the Collaborative Workplace , AMACOM—American Management Association, New York, xii + 196 pp., $22.95—reviewed by Jack S. CookMarshall, Kneale T. and Oliver, Robert M. 1995, Decision Making and Forecasting , McGraw Hill, New York, 407 pp., $69.78—reviewed by Belarmino Adenso-DíazBadiru, Adedeji B. 1995, Industry's Guide to ISO 9000 , John Wiley and Sons, New York, 213 pp., $54.95—reviewed by Haidong SongNelson, Barry L. 1995, Stochastic Modeling: Analysis and Simulation , McGraw-Hill, New York, 321 pp., $63.25—reviewed by Paul A. Dreyer, Jr.Burley-Allen, Madelyn 1995, Managing Assertively: How to Improve Your People Skills , Second Edition, John Wiley and Sons, New York, 224 pp., $14.95—reviewed by Carl Glass