Product Description: The Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP)-- a program of the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)-- has sought for more than two decades to strengthen American manufacturing. It is a national network of affiliated manufacturing extension centers and field offices located throughout all fifty states and Puerto Rico...read more

Product Description: With all the grumbling about American business incompetence, is there anything we know how to do better than our competitors? In an antidote to the continuing negativism, "The American Edge" reveals 10 of America's unique business competencies and shares insights on how some well-known US companies capitalize on these often-overlooked assets...read more