Human Resources Lean Production Operations 
Harvard Business Review
JULY 27, 2015
companies were making progress on the operations front, but now they seem to have lost their way—and business schools are in a position to help set them right again. In the 1980s, our organizations learned a great deal about how to improve productivity, quality, and costs from Japanese practices. A few decades ago, U.S.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 26, 2016
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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