To counter this, Panasonic president Kazuhiko Tsuga has announced a two-year restructuring plan aimed at turning around its struggling consumer electronics division.

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What it does do, though, is shift the power to plan the day from the consultant to the hospital manager - and in most other organisations this division of labour, makes perfect sense.

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So too are GE-style exhaustive interrogations, led by Bulriss, of each division chief's annual operating plan.

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