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DeepDive Overview: Performance Management - Looking for the Hidden Clues
June 2009 - Business performance management tools can help you discover much-needed operational efficiencies. But, particularly in tough times, it’s best to keep it simple.

Green for the Right Reasons
May 2009 - Green and sustainable practices are the next step in the lean, just-in-time movement, and manufacturing plants and executive suites are at the epicenter.

Beyond Cost Reduction
May 2009 - Sure, manufacturers need to cut costs during a recession. But the downturn also offers the opportunity to get better at a host of operational activities.

Agility: User Resources
January 2009 issue - An Arsenal of Information to Support Your Quest for Agility

Business Success Demands a Strategy to Increase Agility
January 2009 issue - To get an expert's view of the state of agility in manufacturing, MA Senior Editor Stephanie Neil e-mailed with Sudhir Menon, senior manager at Deloitte Consulting, LLP.

Enablng Technologies: Visualizing the Agile Manufacturing Enterprise
January 2009 issue - Software vendors are enabling agility with tools that deliver real-time data, automated exception alerts, and more flexible applications.

Deep Dive on Agility: Only the Adaptable Survive
January 2009 issue - Have you noticed that business conditions seem to be changing faster than ever? It's not your imagination. Manufacturers now must not only survive change, but also embrace it with agility.

Lean + Technology = Lean Squared
December 2008 - The old view of lean was that technology didn't play much of a role. The new view sees increasingly sophisticated software and hardware as lean's great allies.

LEAN: Meet Mr. Lean
July 2008 - James Womack wrote the book on lean — make that many books. He didn't invent the practice, but he and his research colleagues knew a good thing when they saw it at Toyota.

Who Are Today's Influential Thinkers?
July 2008 - MA profiles seven thought leaders who are defining and advancing trends that are likely to have a lasting effect on manufacturing practices and technology.

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