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6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 1 of 7

Strategy Driven

Unfortunately contemporary management theory and practices have ill prepared us for our current reality. During this time, an engineer named Taiichi Ohno (known today as the father of Toyota) began the task of building a new capacity for Japanese industrial production. In the business world, waste kills productivity and profitability.

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Learning to Discern – Quality & Quantity

Deming Institute

A product or a service possesses quality if it helps somebody and enjoys a good and sustainable market. Nonetheless, TQC efforts were openly resisted by the JIT community, leading to “a group of nervous quality-control managers surrounding Shoichiro one day…. Post by Bill Bellows. The basic problem anywhere is quality. Edwards Deming.

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