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focused factories  

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  • C. Wickham Skinner first introduced the concept of “focused factories” in a 1974 article in the Harvard Business Review. In this seminal article, Skinner, a Harvard Business School professor, applied the concept of focused factories to manufacturers in the United States, which at the time were experiencing a productivity crisis. [Source: Encyclopedia of Health Services Research; Focused Factories]

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