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How to Reduce Operational Costs for Your Small Business 

Strategy Driven

From streamlining processes to taking advantage of technological solutions, these methods will help you save money while still providing excellent customer service. Consider ways to streamline tasks, such as using technology solutions or eliminating redundant steps. This will lead to faster turnaround times and higher performance.

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Can Lean Manufacturing Put an End to Sweatshops?

Harvard Business Review

It involves replacing traditional mass manufacturing with “lean manufacturing” principles. Over the last thirty years, the lean approach — developed by Japanese automakers — has permeated the manufacturing sector in developed countries, but is much less commonly used in the developing world.

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Competitive Advantage from the Bottom of the Pyramid

LDRLB

Ajay is a technologist and business strategist who often obsesses over issues that range from the impact of technology on disruptive business models to entrepreneurship and impact investing. LG & Sevamob have both managed to achieve that via a combination of novel business models and in LG’s case low cost & lean manufacturing.

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How to measure the ROI of your process improvement

Chartered Management Institute

Despite this, many companies undertaking lean manufacturing do not measure the effectiveness of their efforts on improving the bottom line. The meeting example is probably very cheap, but other improvements may require investment in new technology, training or tools.

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Breaking the Death Grip of Legacy Technologies

Harvard Business Review

Technologies like 3-D printing, robotics, advanced motion controls, and new methods for continuous manufacturing hold great potential for improving how companies design and build products to better serve customers. Why are older incumbent firms slow to adopt new technologies even when the economic or strategic benefits are clear?

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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.

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The Dirty Little Secret About Digitally Transforming Operations

Harvard Business Review

the Internet of Things (IoT), Digital Manufacturing, and big data and advanced analytics. There is a common misconception that technology alone can produce magical results. The technologies and processes that are transforming companies. Remember that technology alone is not a cure-all. ” Insight Center.