The production cycle he sees is the opposite of the theoretical model of continuous improvement.

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But now the Asian markets are moving toward the Western model of continuous trading, and shortening their lunch breaks.

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As the changing needs of users often outpace the implementation of more traditional infrastructure, it has been critical to leverage an open hardware blueprint model to accommodate continuous improvementof the system.

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The gravity-based system responded as it was designed to, circulating water and steam in a continuous loop to keep the scale-model reactor at a safe temperature automatically.

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The AK-47, for example, is widely available to private citizens around the U.S. as a semi-automatic version (firing one shot each time the trigger is pulled), but the military grade fully automatic (continuous fire while the trigger is depressed) model is illegal almost everywhere.

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According to its creator, walking through its continuous looping design will seamlessly merge indoors and outdoors in an effort to model nature itself.

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Efforts to put in place a new role for managers as enablers of self-organizing teams, new Agile methods of coordinating work, new values of trust and transparency and continuous improvement, and horizontal communications will inevitably fall foul of the prevailing mental model of how the C-suite expects the firm to work.

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