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6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 1 of 7

Strategy Driven

The changes have been so dramatic that most companies are still scrambling to figure out the new rules of the game. During this time, an engineer named Taiichi Ohno (known today as the father of Toyota) began the task of building a new capacity for Japanese industrial production. The ‘Wastes’ of Execution: Transportation.

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