 | While Lean Thinking has Big Supply Chain Benefits, Companies need some Slack Time to Innovate
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| Rising Energy Costs Hurting US Competitiveness
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| UAW and the Auto OEMs May be Getting Along, but Still Lots of Strife Elsewhere
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| Getting Bad Practices out of Revamped Value Streams
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| China as Scapegoat? As Mattel Apologizes to China, Attention to Supply Chain Risk Should Not Obscure Key Issues around Product Design; Even Toyota had Issues
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| Product Innovation Drove Complexity, and Skyrocketing Costs; Losing $337,000 in Shareholder Value Per Day |
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| The "Self-Organizing" Concept Can Work in Many Assembly Line Scenarios; Solving the Sub-Assembly Line Balancing Problem; Success at Mitsubishi Consumer Electronics America
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| Excerpt from "Dragons at Your Door" Demonstrates Competitive Power of "Cost Innovation" by Chinese Manufacturers; How can Western Companies Compete? |
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| Across a large number of product categories, China has simply become the factory to the world; try 70 percent share of all sewing machines and ocean containers made globally |
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