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...year low. Carp followed up with a plan to eliminate nearly a quarter of the company's 64,000-person work force by 2006. Still, Wall Street analysts doubted that Kodak, with its legacy culture and reputedly ossified management, could match the pace set by its lean digital competitors. How could it generate sufficient profit from digital sales and cut costs fast enough to offset the precipitous decline of its primary source of profit...
...company overhauled its manufacturing process as well. That task fell to an old-timer, Charles Brown, a lean, cerebral 31-year Kodak survivor who is today the chief administrative officer. A chemical engineer, Brown spent much of his career in manufacturing, ultimately developing a lean production system in 1997 that was based on Toyota's acclaimed continuous-improvement approach. He dubbed it the Kodak Operating System. KOS forces managers to look at everything that happens in a plant in terms of waste--waste of time, waste of space and so on. They then analyze every step in a process--down...
...Lean R. Lussier ’07 said she was looking forward to catching a glimpse of Zeta-Jones during the star’s visit to Cambridge, since The Mask of Zorro is her favorite movie...
Folks who are lean are more likely to fidget, stand up or pace about than their moderately obese counterparts, according to a study of 20 self-identified couch potatoes conducted by researchers at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. For 10 days scientists measured their subjects' every movement, using sensors embedded in specially designed underwear. The 10 lean participants were more active even after they were required to gain weight...
...Hong Kong Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa, last week's annual Policy Address should have been an opportunity to brag. The economy has revived after seven lean years and the scary days of SARS. Millions of mainland tourists are streaming across the border. And prices for property, the economy's lifeblood, have zoomed up by more than 30% in the last year. Yet last week, Tung stood at the rostrum of the Legislative Council looking like he'd rather be in the dentist's chair. "We fell short of thinking what people think and addressing people's pressing needs...