Toyota has stopped assembly lines, shuffled its management and considered job cuts.
Such an inflexible apportionment of jobs, rather like an old-fashioned assembly line, flouts modern management techniques where team members typically float between roles.
Mr Benfield was giving evidence on Tuesday to the Welsh assembly's Public Accounts Committee investigation into grants management.
The assembly also passed the first stage of the Apartment Developments' Management Reform Bill.
Among other things, when management installed slightly brighter light bulbs, or changed the length of assembly-line breaks during the work day, they noticed that productivity picked up.
The council said the cost of energy and food, rising waste management costs, a lower-than-inflation settlement from the assembly government and other "budgetary pressures" left it with no choice.
That, he reckons, is because making and selling food is more complex than television assembly, and the more complex a business, the greater the advantage the foreigners' management experience gives them.
The United Nations General Assembly has declared 2011 as the International Year of Forests to raise awareness of the importance of sustainable forest management.
Five members will give IOC Assembly regional representation, while ten experts will assure active engagement from the ocean observation research, implementation and marine management communities.
These include disciplined project management skills that will allow a company to process a resource play as efficiently as if it were an assembly line, repetitively drilling and fracking and completing wells one after another with a rabid eye on cost control.
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That much make sense: Given how much of a data center is virtualized, and the management of that becoming something of an overarching operating system, servers may start to look something like what assembly language does now in a single computer: something critical, but not something people look at a lot, and not a place to stake your fortune.
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