He not only filled back orders, he started giving more authority to shop-floor employees.

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Dozens of staff, both management and shop-floor workers, were taken to a nearby hospital.

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Using the interviews, the authors rated management practices on a scale of one to five (with one being worst and five best) across 18 categories within three broad areas: shop-floor operations, performance management and talent management.

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Manufacturers can connect shop floor devices to back-end IT.

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The Italian-run shop has an old school look, but this time the monochrome-tiled floor and Formica tables are genuinely vintage.

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The few workers on duty keep an eye on progress from glassed-in observation posts above the shop floor, watching multiple computer screens.

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The mighty Google just set up shop in the city this past December, opening a one-floor shared work environment available for free to Israeli startups, developers and entrepreneurs.

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Fairuz is a mother of three boys and owned a lingerie shop on the ground floor of her house in the centre of al-Khiyam.

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The celebration of silence continues at the Quiet Shop on the ground floor, where you'll find exclusive de-branded versions of recognisable products, including pots of Marmite, bottles of Heinz tomato ketchup, Creme de la Mer face cream and Levis red label jeans.

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The one-month and three-month plots of the weights gets printed out and distributed on the shop floor.

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The Coinbase office is an airy two-floor apartment with a wall of windows in a building across from a tantalizing coffee shop.

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Until retailers' inventories naturally flood with the updated type, the only way to tell is by switching the slate on and running a utility like GeekBench -- and perhaps there'll be circumstances where you can give that a go on the shop floor.

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