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Can Lean Manufacturing Put an End to Sweatshops?

Harvard Business Review

Conventional wisdom holds that improving working conditions (which typically costs money) would undermine the competitive advantage these firms enjoy. Workers specialize in simple, highly routinized operations. They are incentivized to complete operations as quickly as possible. Operations in a Connected World.

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How IBM's Sam Palmisano Redefined the Global Corporation

Harvard Business Review

This meant abandoning IBM's existing organization, in which product silos and geographic entities operated independently and frequently were more competitive than collaborative. Palmisano could not have succeeded at placing values at the center of IBM's operations without strong principles of his own. When the U.S.

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The Big Picture of Business – Planning and Budgeting in Downsized Times

Strategy Driven

Validate your worth to the overall company operation. Under the rules of supply chain dynamics, one must study your supplier relationships, formalize a plan of outsourcing and develop collaborations. Become top management’s partner in efficiency of operations. Continuous quality improvement within your own operation.

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6 Rules for Building and Scaling Company Culture

Harvard Business Review

The team is the company’s raw DNA, the purpose their religion, and culture their unique way of operating based on common principles, norms, and values. These types of leaders have not just an incredible passion and work ethic for what they do, but a cultural ethic in that how they do what they do inspires others.