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Can Lean Manufacturing Put an End to Sweatshops?

Harvard Business Review

Workers specialize in simple, highly routinized operations. They are incentivized to complete operations as quickly as possible. Operations in a Connected World. It secured support from suppliers, offered extensive training to factory management, and inspected production lines for adoption of the new management practices.

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Britain’s Patient-Safety Crisis Holds Lessons for All

Harvard Business Review

As we in the United States juggle major structural and operational changes and try to secure our financial systems as revenues fall, we must keep our promise of safety and high quality to every patient, every time. Their attention was on their finances — understandable and even appropriate these days. Health Leadership Operations'

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