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Overview
TRW has helped shape the major industries of today: automotive, aerospace, and information systems. In the first comprehensive history of this organization - the result of unprecedented access to TRW's archives and in-depth interviews with its employees - author Davis Dyer documents a company whose command of manufacturing technology and systems engineering has influenced national and international business affairs throughout the twentieth century. In this revealing account, TRW emerges as a resourceful and inventive player in the American industrial landscape. Dyer's interviews with Frederick Crawford - begun when Crawford was ninety-eight - offer a rare opportunity to reflect with someone who collaborated with such pioneers of American business as Henry Ford, Walter Chrysler, and Pierre du Pont.Synopsis
TRW has helped shape the major industries of today: automotive, aerospace, and information systems. In the first comprehensive history of this organization - the result of unprecedented access to TRW's archives and in-depth interviews with its employees - author Davis Dyer documents a company whose command of manufacturing technology and systems engineering has influenced national and international business affairs throughout the twentieth century. In this revealing account, TRW emerges as a resourceful and inventive player in the American industrial landscape. Dyer's interviews with Frederick Crawford - begun when Crawford was ninety-eight - offer a rare opportunity to reflect with someone who collaborated with such pioneers of American business as Henry Ford, Walter Chrysler, and Pierre du Pont.
Booknews
A history of TRW's rapid growth, broad diversification, and subsequent restructuring around core businesses, offering insights into the evolution of the strategy, structure, and management of the technological pioneer. Features in-depth interviews with employees and extensive discussion of the merger of Thompson Products and Ramo- Woolridge in 1958. How the company approached its major problems and what it learned in the process form a major theme of the book. Commissioned by TRW Inc. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.