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| Author: | Hayes, R. H. Clark, K. B. |
| Title: | Why some factories are more productive than others. |
| Journal: | Harvard Business Review
1986 : SEP-OCT, VOL. 64:5, p. 66-73 |
| Index terms: | PRODUCTION FACTORIES INDUSTRIAL PERFORMANCE PRODUCTION COSTS |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | The variables that influence productivity at the micro level is to be clarified embarking on a continuing, multiyear study of 12 factories in three companies. In none of these companies did the usual profit-and-loss statements provide adequate up-to-date information about factory performance. Certainly, managers routinely evaluated such performance but the metrics they used made their task like that of watching a distant activity through a thick, fogged window. Measurement systems in place at many factories obscure and even alter the details of their performance. |
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