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Texas Instruments (TI), a advanced semiconductor giant, gunning for the technology boom, went up like a rocket, and proceeding in the wake of the technology bust, came down like the stick. The business free spillway jolted TI. Its giant feet, it figuratively reduced, to fit in their customers shoes. Fitting in their shoes is renewing customer awareness, and walk of lifeing in them is focusing on their happiness. BTS USA, a global supplier, trained the TIs executives and managers in information how to walk toward the customer-centric direction. Ironic eachy, the quickest walk from TI to its customers is on that road that togs through the heart of the front-line employees the ones that should have walked first in the customers shoes.Review/ synopsis of the CaseThe nostalgic expression customers waited in line conjures up a unique image of a cross of multicolored Piper and madam Luck, both legendary personifications of power and fortune the twin business goodies plan of attack out of the technology boom. At its height, TI had its hands full of such goodies. The Pied Pipers power was in his magic piping that lured rats to follow him in a long line. TI gather uped a jolt to wake up to the call of those customers that waited in line who, contrary Pied Pipers rats, were people with human wants and needs to satisfy. TI needed a jolt to wake up to the call of its brothel keeper Luck who, in the wake of the technology bust, was running out of luck.Then, BTS USA, a global supplier of computer-based simulations of learning, came in and played the role of a hero. The teaching and Development play was a typical example of a book-line conjecture put on a real-life practice. That is, an external change (technology bust), stirred an organisation (TI), that egged on a problem (dissatisfied customers), which required a consultant (BTS USA), in carrying out the following basic process (training and development) Diagnosing needs, gathering data, home lick actions, building teams, developing groups, and conducting evaluations (Davis, 1981, p. 261).Analysis of FindingsIn real world, TI would need all pair of hands to give its customers a lift, and all pairs of feet to walk in their shoes. To satisfy customers, product quality and price should meet their expectations, and work should match their perceptions. Product quality and price is performance-driven while customer service, on the other hand, is behavior-driven. Training and Development seems to emphasize behavioral processes rather than seam performance (Davis, 1981, p.271). The pairs of hands and feet that produce products with quality and price the customers expect start to the front-line employees. Therefore, their level of training priority must be stamped High.RecommendationsTI would come through competitive advantage in real world by completely satisfying its customers. It would require organization-wide changes that would transcend major traditional turfs with diverse uncon nected goals Marketing aims at increasing volume, Production, minimizing cost, and Finance, maximizing profit. Amid the radical change, Training and Development, correspond to Davis (1981, p.257), plays a vital role as a change performer that breaks through, if not breaks down, the organizations turfs, stimulates sweeping changes across-the-board, at the same time, rolls those turfs unneurotic into one harmonious work force.Summary and ConclusionsTIs eventual(prenominal) climb to the top must be steered with durable ROI at the bottom. What awaits TI at the summit is a highly coveted business plunder customers-waiting-in-line reality. To earn such trophy needs no magic from Pied Piper and Lady Luck. TI must only enlist all pairs of merged hands in a Total Customer comfort Boot Camp. After fitting up to great shape, all the pairs of corporate feet would be let loose to walk in their customers shoes. Walking unitedly hand-in-hand while commanding a view of the top, TIs climber s and their customers alike, would loud cheer, Were Number OneReferencesDavis, K. (1981). Human behavior at work Organizational behavior. Arizona. McGraw-Hill, Inc.