David Harkin writes about taking the “hard-soft” balanced approach for sustainable change and improved performance. Published in the Engineers Journal June’ 08

David Harkin outlines some fundamental principles of change management.

David Harkin writes that in the current economic climate, manufacturing businesses have to be leaner in order to be cost competitive, but some Irish companies can still struggle with lean concepts and cultural change.

Yogi Berra the great American baseball coach when pressed on how his team would perform in the coming season replied “It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.”

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The Toyota production system has long been hailed as the source of Toyota's outstanding performance as a manufacturer.