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The Failure of “The Livonia Philosophy” at my GM Plant

Deming Institute

General Motors wasn’t my ideal workplace after having read Deming’s Out of the Crisis and learning a bit about Lean manufacturing in college. That sounds very much like the Toyota Production System and Lean management. Instead of development, we got regression, apparently. But, I needed a job, so I cast a wide net.

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Collaboration Will Drive the Next Wave of Productivity Gains

Harvard Business Review

The ways individual companies achieve these straightforward goals fall in two basic categories: developing and adopting new management practices (such as total quality management, lean manufacturing, reengineering, and employee engagement), or adopting new technology and integrating it into the way work is done.