In Crisis, Manufacturers Can Look to Kata
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There is more to lean manufacturing than improving a few processes. Sustainable lean success requires a companywide culture of continuous daily improvement.
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There is more to lean manufacturing than improving a few processes. Sustainable lean success requires a companywide culture of continuous daily improvement.
For owners and operators in the agricultural and food-processing industries, Jan.
The term “quiet quitting” emerged in March 2022, and refers to doing the bare minimal tasks of your job description well enough that you do
Imagine messaging an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot about a missing package and getting the response that it would be “delighted” to help. Once the bot creates the new order, it says it’s “happy” to resolve the issue.
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When I started working from home in 1998, it wasn’t by choice. I was writing for a major record label that decided—in so many words—that I was like a painting that didn’t go with the furniture. (Fine. Know what you get when you play New Age music backward?
I’m sure you’ve heard the buzz around the German apprenticeship system—but does it really live up to the hype?
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Nearly a quarter of surveyed healthcare cyberattack victims experienced increased mortality rates following a data br
During the early 2000s, I was a recent software engineering graduate. Along with a friend and fellow graduate, I landed some project work with a major pharmaceutical company. The CEO, who had just signed up to the U.N.
One of the key stakeholders in stakeholder capitalism is the employee. You could argue that the employee is the key stakeholder, because without employees you’d have no stakeholders at all.
There’s a growing movement to increase competency and skills-based education and hiring practices in both the public and private sectors.
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