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The promise of technology is always that it will make our lives easier and more efficient. Women are the ones who demand that it fulfill its promise.
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133 |
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In traditional organizations, flow efficiency is typically 10% or less; work really does wait for 90% of the time. This is where significant improvements can be made.
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111 |
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Reducing visible costs nearly always ends up increasing hidden costs due to a reduction in flow efficiency, in a double whammy reduction in value generation.
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146 |
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The goal of every business is health, and that is achieved through efficiency.
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085 |
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The fewest things you can do repetitively to observe a consistent core customer need – this spells efficiency.
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138 |
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…we all need to fight departmentalized, batch thinking because tasks can almost always be accomplished much more efficiently and accurately when the product is worked on continuously from raw material to finished good.
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022 |
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…when a profit-seeking enterprise is in the business of distributing a very large sum of money, the most profitable thing for it to do so is to be as inefficient as possible.
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167 |
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…extra managers are hired with the ostensible purpose of improving efficiency.
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176 |
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To put it bluntly, automation makes certain tasks more efficient, but at the same time, it makes other tasks less efficient.
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262 |
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For a given amount of material, learning is most efficient in the long run when it is really inefficient in the short run.
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089 |
