Identify the Experts and Gather Their Stories

Roger C. Schank, Dimitris Lyras and Elliot Soloway

Chapter Chapter 5 in The Future of Decision Making, 2010, pp 107-124 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract A plant manager is grappling with a decision to implement lean manufacturing methods as a way to reduce waste and increase productivity. She has read a great deal on how lean methods achieve these goals and is concerned about how the processes in the plant have slowed and mistakes have increased. Still, she knows that implementing these methods will be a costly and time-consuming effort. She is aware of other, more incremental, approaches that might yield similar results with a much smaller expenditure of time and money. Her boss is pressuring her to address the plant’s problems, and she has to make a decision quickly.

Keywords: Plant Manager; Shipping Company; Goal Conflict; Lean Manufacturing; Sister Ship (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230110397_6

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