Shared ownership does not
mean that everyone performs the same tasks, although everyone
should have some idea what the others are doing.
Japanese companies rotate managers through different divisions
so that each one knows how the whole company functions.
many companies have satellite companies that perform special
functions for them.
Three companies worked
together to develop a chip that would display alphabets used
in writing Native American languages on a computer
screen. This enabled people to do word processing and
communication in their own languages. One company
designed the alphabets and decided which keys of the keyboard
should be used for each letter. Another company
translated each character into screen design and keyy
locations. The other company designed the software that
would make it work. No one company could have done the
whole job. Remember, the Apollo project involved 30,000
independent companies in making spaceships.
