Seemingly Counter-Intuitive Features of Good-to-Great Companies Actually Make Perfect Sense: Possible Algorithmics-Based Explanations

Authors

Francisco Zapata, The University of Texas at El PasoFollow
Eric Smith, The University of Texas at El PasoFollow
Olga Kosheleva, The University of Texas at El PasoFollow
Vladik Kreinovich, The University of Texas at El PasoFollow

Publication Date

9-1-2022

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Technical Report: UTEP-CS-22-98a

To appear in Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Systems IS'22, Warsaw, Poland, October 12-14, 2022.

Abstract

In the late 1990s, researchers analyzed what distinguishes great companies from simply good ones. They found several features that are typical for great companies. Interestingly, most of these features seem counter-intuitive. In this paper, we show that from the algorithmic viewpoint, many of these features make perfect sense. Some of the resulting explanations are simple and straightforward, other explanations rely on complex not-well-publicized results from theoretical computer science.