Fast Product also produced 'subversive commodities' that problematised pop music (hence their early monikkers - 'difficult fun' and 'mutant pop') and politicised their youthful buyers into a consciousness of taking control of the means of expression, getting confident and reappropriating the means of production. Often packaging their 'products' with a caustic yet subtle sideswipe at consumerism (the image of a wall of gold disks on the cover of the Mekons first single etc), Fast Product showed how all aspects of the record business, from musicianship to design to distribution, could be taken out of the hands of the major labels.
Fast Product's activities have been taken as a blueprint for a 'living culture'.
Bob Last went on to establish the Pop Aural label with such acts as The Flowers, Boots For Dancing and The Fire Engines.
Industrial products are often tied to annual trade shows, and if you miss the show, you have missed a whole year.
Higher productivity: This—more new products per unit of resources—is the unspoken objective of many managers who are fuzzy in their thinking.
Finally, if you are interested primarily in productivity, consider approaches such as six sigma and its associated admonition to "do it right the first time." But before you do this, see our column on the opposite.
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