Goal Operations Payback Period Productivity 
Harvard Business Review
MAY 13, 2014
Under CEO Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, they adopted operational efficiency approaches (“ Workout ,” “Six Sigma,” and “Lean”) that reinforced their success and that many companies emulated. Product development: g etting closer to customers and moving faster. GE is an icon of management best practices.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 26, 2013
Still, if you''re dependent on coal-powered energy — or your value chain is — it''s time to rethink your energy strategy and reconsider the payback periods on clean energy investments. Walmart is the largest private user of solar power in the country, and has set goals to increase that amount 6-fold by 2020.
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