Computers Quote by James P. Womack

“This approach seems completely backward to traditional managers who have been told all their lives that competitive advantage in manufacture is obtained from automating,…

— James P. Womack

If you don't understand how to run an efficient operation, new machinery will just give you new problems of operation and maintenance. The sure…

— W. Edwards Deming

“It is a principle that, curiously, many top-level managers in the service often failed to grasp. In a truly efficient organization, the allocation of…

— Christopher David Costanzo

The efficiency of most workers is beyond the control of the management and depends more than has been supposed upon the willingness of men…

— Sumner Slichter

In the business world, management is always viewed in terms of productivity. Why? Because productivity is the key to the success of the organization…

— Tony Alessandra

“Taiichi Ohno blamed this batch-and-queue mode of thinking on civilization’s first farmers, who he claimed lost the one-thing-at-a-time wisdom of the hunter as they…

— James P. Womack

The growing complexity of science, technology, and organization does not imply either a growing knowledge or a growing need for knowledge in the general…

— Thomas Sowell

Management's job is to optimize the whole system.

— W. Edwards Deming

“Indeed, it seems the prescription for highest software productivity is almost a Zen paradox; if you want the most efficient production, you must give…

— Eric S. Raymond

When the business grows, the person who founded it is incredibly busy. Rapid growth puts an enormous strain on a business. You outgrow your…

— Peter Drucker

Production for sale in a market in which the object is to realize the maximum profit is the essential feature of a capitalist world-economy.…

— Immanuel Wallerstein

Management is about human beings. Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.

— Anonymous