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sexta-feira, julho 01, 2011

Acerca do enfoque no aumento da produtividade via redução dos custos

"More than 30 years ago, Abernathy (1978) suggested that a firm’s focus on productivity gains inhibited its flexibility and ability to innovate. Abernathy observed that in the automobile industry, a firm’s economic decline was directly related to its efficiency and productivity efforts. He suggested that a firm’s ability to compete over time was rooted not only in increasing efficiency, but also in its ability to be simultaneously innovative"
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E depois o mau sou eu quando chamo a atenção para os perigos de olhar para dentro e apostar nos Kaizens e Leans porque o tempo é o nosso recurso mais escasso.
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Trecho retirado de "Perspectives on the productivity dilemma" de Paul S. Adler, Mary Benner, David James Brunner, John Paul MacDuffie, Emi Osono, Bradley R. Staats, Hirotaka Takeuchi, Michael L. Tushman e Sidney G. Winter, publicado pelo Journal of Operations Management 27 (2009) 99–113