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    • The Dell operating model 

      Paxton, Blaine Kermit (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
      Dell, Inc. is well known for its dramatic and continually improving operational performance in terms of unit cost, inventory level, production capacity, and labor efficiency. However, in late 2002, several members of Dell's ...

    • Enterprise design for dynamic complexity : architecting & engineering organizations using system & structural dynamics 

      Piepenbrock, Theodore F. (Theodore Frederick), 1965- (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
      As the business world is neither linear nor static, the mastery of its "chaotic" nonlinear dynamics lies at the heart of finding high-leverage policies that return uncommon benefits for marginal costs. Today's global ...

    • Driving a lean transformation using a six sigma improvement process 

      Krishnan, Satish, 1974- (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
      Successive transformations within manufacturing have brought great efficiencies to producers and lower costs to consumers. With the advents of interchangeable parts between 1800 and 1850 in small arms manufacturing (Hounshell, ...