ABSTRACT
Completeness is the real key to creating the Integrated Company, as it is an acknowledgement that all businesses are complex, many-faceted, interrelated interactions, where no one particular area or theme predominates. Recognizing the Integrated Company from its external characteristics is obviously important, but it tells us only what the Integrated company does. The major characteristics of Integrated Company, and those which are crucial in making the company fully integrated, and from which the external characteristics are developed. The global process philosophy is a not only a core-concept which is directly linked to building the Integrated Company, it is a genuinely holistic, long-term philosophy, to which the majority of other concepts are inextricably interlinked. The Japanese 'corporate members' concept represents an ideal, and is too advanced to institute in the initial stages of the Integrated Company. The move from top-down, to top-down/bottom-up decision making is a difficult subject to introduce into many Western companies.
