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Avoiding enterprise demise.

Publication: Industrial Engineer
Publication Date: 01-AUG-05
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Avoiding enterprise demise.( )

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THE TERM LEAN MANUFACTURING HAS caused many companies, in the absence of true understanding, to treat the concept as a manufacturing-based initiative. This focus tends to concentrate attention on processes and technology while neglecting views of the customer and value-adding employees, two a...

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...of the enterprise's most important stakeholder groups. Lean is more than manufacturing-based initiative. It is an enterprisewide undertaking.

A growing body of research has led to the development of lean enterprise architecting. Enterprise architecting must come first and be...

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