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It is not realistic for any company to assume that it will continue to succeed by just prolonging today’s excellent practices. To continue to survive and prosper, a company must possess two strategies — downsizing the existing businesses and upsizing into new businesses. Our definition of downsizing is to streamline the organization to reduce cost; upsizing, on the other hand, is to expand into new business activities to secure employment and enhance revenue.
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Kano, N. (1995). Upsizing the organization by attractive quality creation. In: Kanji, G.K. (eds) Total Quality Management. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0539-2_6
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