UK: IM SOUNDING BOARD - TOOL FOR WORLD-CLASS COMPETITORS.

Alec Daly Deputy director general, Confederation of British Industry and companion of the IM 'Work already carried out out by IBM and the LBS showed that the UK and Germany had an equal proportion of world-class companies (around 2%) and that we were not too far adrift on 'contenders' for world-class. Where we compare badly with the Germans, however, is in our percentage of 'punch bag' companies, those that have very low standards of practice and equally low performance levels'

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