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A network is in this context an interconnected system of companies or business units the processes of which produce a certain product or service. The produced product or service may be a sub-product or subservice to a larger whole. The reasons for conducting a network and company (unit) analysis and synthesis are manifold. Such an analysis shows the performance level of specific companies (units) and the related network. The synthesis, on the other hand, tells how to improve these performers. Besides the improvement of existing network companies, the presented method and the related output can be utilized to analyze prospective future partners, subcontractors or suppliers. Another area of application is company mergers and acquisitions, where this approach provides an attractive complement to the traditional due diligence process and the related output. For very demanding due diligence cases, for example, to define a proper market value of a company, it might be necessary to dig deeper into the concerns and conduct a process specific analysis and synthesis as presented in Chap. 5.
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The Three Musketeers, written by Alexandre Dumas (père), is a serialized novel published in 1844.
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The company (unit) level data collection and analysis provides as such the input to the network level analysis. Therefore, it could also be argued that there are only three different data collection phases, but four different analysis and synthesis phases.
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The six sigma approach provides support to assure the efficiency of the improvement efforts.
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“The Emperor’s New Clothes” (Kejserens Nye Klæder) is a fairy tale by Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen about an emperor who unwittingly hires two swindlers to create a new suit of clothes for him. The tale was first published in 1837 as part of Eventyr, Fortalte for Børn (Fairy Tales, Told for Children). Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor's_New_ Clothes.
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Pastinen, M. (2010). Network and Company Analysis and Synthesis. In: High-Performance Process Improvement. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10784-9_4
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