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3 Tools for Streamlining Processes in Manufacturing

Strategy Driven

Manufacturing processes are complex and they often consist of multiple steps. So, in order to maximize profits, businesses have to find innovative ways to streamline these processes and reduce the time they take to complete. Manufacturing cloud – this can help you to create transparency through each process. PDCA Cycle.

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When Your Best Customers Really Aren't

Harvard Business Review

After an intense innovation workshop, the CTO of a globally-successful Chinese electronics supplier approached, unhappily. You emphasize the importance of collaborating with your customers to innovate," he moaned, "but our best customers don't want to collaborate. They're not interested in innovating with us.". The CTO grimaced.

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How We Revolutionized Our Emergency Department

Harvard Business Review

How does an emergency department (ED) go from the 6 th to the 99 th percentile in patient satisfaction, while improving dramatically in virtually every performance and efficiency category? If it were a Toyota vehicle-manufacturing plant, a key enabler would be a rope strung along each production line above team members, the Andon Cord.

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An Obstacle to Patient-Centered Care: Poor Supply Systems

Harvard Business Review

and Canada, I have come to the conclusion that health care professionals will continue to struggle to deliver it unless hospitals redesign their internal supply processes, structures, and measurement systems so that staff have the specific materials and equipment needed for patients’ individual care plans, when they are needed.

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