And, tapping his auto parts experience, he introduced the just-in-time inventory-control system and lean manufacturing, which emphasizes reducing wasteful processes in order to make better products and respond quickly to customers.
At the same time, distribution channel inventories are at lean levels and industry capacity remains tight.
In case you missed the 43-year-old Facebook executive speaking with Oprah or on the cover of Time, the thesis of her "Lean In" book is this: We have educated a generation of women well, but too few make it to the top rungs.
Anyone who can remember the 1980s and early 1990s can recall in the lexicon of the time that industry was meant to get "lean" and "fit" in order to compete and survive.
The commanding officer is Colonel Dawud Ibrahim(ph), a one-time army officer and farmer, he is a lean man in a worn leather jacket.
Innovative solutions like demand-driven forecasting, in which real-time customer demand information is translated into super-lean production and delivery, have allowed companies to dramatically reduce inventory levels and the costs associated with them.
The best time to buy into the IPO market was during the lean years of the last decade.
Rather, Lean In is more of a book about excelling in a world where time is limited and choices are plentiful.
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Furthermore, since new mines can take as long as a decade to develop, mining executives say, and since firms made few investments during the lean years of the 1980s and 1990s, supply could take a long time to catch up with demand.
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Pidgeon also expects sales on these two new consoles to be a bit slower than last time, and that Microsoft and Sony will have to continue to lean on current-gen sales for a little while yet.
Most dealers keep their stock of artwork lean, unable to afford to hold more than a few dozen paintings at a time before they sell them.
At the same time, experience the largest population of outsize birds that produce extraordinary feathers, lean meat and distinctively bumpy leather.
This led to work with legendary British director David Lean on the Oscar-winning Ryan's Daughter, and at around the same time he also worked with two 20th Century icons in Sinatra and Elvis.
Every time Abdu rolled down his window to ask someone for directions, the pedestrian would lean down and study our faces.
The first time I saw her was on Mercer Street one evening as the light started to lean over the city.
Should he became governor, Quinn indicated he might lean toward appointing a successor to Obama's seat, saying an election would be expensive and time-consuming.
Folks should learn a bit about modern org leadership, including basic concepts like slack, 20% free time, systems engineering, complex adaptive systems, self-organizing systems, emergence, Lean-Agile, Kanban, Scrum, Lean Startup, Radical Management, etc.
But he kept the lean look of a man who still worried about tickets and guitar strings, and who did not have time for lunch.
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