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The Breakthrough Imperative
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The Breakthrough Imperative

by Mark Gottfredson, Steve Schaubert
October 2009
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
384 pages
9h 29m
English
HarperCollins Publishers
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APPENDIX 2

Experience Curves

We have written this appendix to provide managers and their teams with brief guidelines for creating experience curves. We have also summarized our perspectives on a few special situations that often need to be considered.

 

GUIDELINES FOR CREATING AN EXPERIENCE CURVE

The experience curve, as described in chapter 2, shows how unit prices and costs generally decline as experience accumulates. The first step in creating such a curve is gathering the necessary data and determining the right “unit of experience.” Often the unit of experience is straightforward—square feet of carpet for a carpet manufacturer, for example. But if costs and prices seem to be rising over time, it may be because you are neglecting what customers ...

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