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Collective Performance

What drivers to action to develop and continuously improve the performance?

Keep Your Eye on Process Improvement

Brad Power

The author seeks to understand why companies which have obtained fast and visible results thanks to Lean approaches often give up trying to anchor these practices.

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The Three Cs of Simplicity

Ron Ashkenas

Ron Ashkenas proposes restoring organizational simplicity by strengthening three complementary levers: collaboration, coordination and communication.

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Avoiding supply chain shipwrecks

The hidden risks and costs of distant delocalization.

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Contract manufacturing: realizing the potential

Advice on how to outsource production successfully.

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When offshore manufacturing doesn't make sense

A plea for thinking twice before delocalizing production far from your home base.

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Innovation's new performance standard

Findings of a survey on 50 companies highlight four factors that influence significantly the innovation process efficiency.

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When will supply chain management grow up

Keys to successful supply chain strategy.

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The hidden value in airline operations

A study of the benefits of transposing lean production principles to the airline industry.

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Decoding the DNA of the Toyota Production System

Steven Spear, H. Kent Bowen

A detailed analysis of what makes the Toyota model so specific and sometimes difficult to replicate.

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First National Toyota

An example of transposing lean production to bank transactions, such as check processing.

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