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Why Can’t U.S. Health Care Costs Be Cut in Half?

Harvard Business Review

Ford shifted the auto industry from craft to mass production, and the Japanese later took it a step further to lean production. The same can be said of other procedures that might lend themselves to mass or lean production. By making only one type of car (Model T) in volume, he cut unit costs dramatically.

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A Brief History of the Ways Companies Compete

Harvard Business Review

Many companies still compete this way and there continue to be successors to Taylorism, including business process reengineering and lean production. Some companies brought together Six Sigma and lean production into “Lean Six Sigma” as a way of competing with both lower costs and higher quality.